Sep 2025 – Present · 6 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

• I also run a fitness blog at https://to10percentbodyfat.com/.

May 2022 – Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• My team works on the WearOS platform which powers Samsung galaxy and Google pixel watches with a combined DAU of ~30M, supporting some key functionalities such as:
• Supporting core developer surfaces on WearOS such as watchfaces, tiles and complications from a platform pov.
• Supporting System UI and other google apps
• Bridging phone companion app with other parts on the watch and supporting critical cross device user journeys.

Dec 2019 – May 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Building the next generation of Wearables

Sep 2018 – May 2019 · 8 mos

• End-to-end ownership of the core customer facing android app of zeta, currently having ~900K Monthly Active Users.
• Continuously maintained over 99% crash free rate by following a strict release management process with an in-house Continuous Integration system.
• Enabled metric-driven product decisions by setting up analytics pipeline with Firebase, BigQuery and DataStudio.
• Mentored a team of 4 junior developers over the complete SDLC of several projects, including spec definition, API designing, implementation, maintenance, testing and analysis.
• Involved in contributing to Zeta backend services to support variety of use cases for both Android and iOS apps.
• Enabled accelerated implementation of business requirements by coming up with novel ideas from time to time, such as a dynamically configurable spotlight in app.
• Enabled shipping of feature sdks to clients by complete modularization of the app.
• Ensured fast delivery of projects by maintaining hygiene over a large codebase of 50+ modules. This was done by enabling and promoting the use of best practices in the team such as MVVM architecture, Dependency Injection, Unit Testing.
• Fostered a positive learning environment in the team by keeping upto date with ever-growing Android ecosystem be it Gradle, Kotlin, Architecture Components or best practices around performance, and conducted regular knowledge transfer sessions.
• Skills: Android, Java, Kotlin, Firebase, Android Architecture Components, Microservices, Design Patterns, Gradle, Jenkins, Fabric

Jun 2016 – Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Outstanding performer for both the financial years (2016-17, 2017-18)
• Designed and developed a secure store for storing user's sensitive data by leveraging Android Keystore as well as a custom app-specific solution
• Involved in Ideation and Development of a framework to create dynamic user interfaces for all mobile platforms using shared code. The framework understands a custom markup language which can be written by people from other teams as well. More than 50% of the current app has been built using this framework.
• Revamped the complete app to effectively function with different PPI issuers- Sodexo, RBL, IDFC & Kotak by supporting 'Bank as a Configuration' so that new banks can be onboarded flawlessly.
• Developed a communication bridge between native android and webviews, with plugin architecture for extensibility. This exposes webviews to capabilities such as accessing client's data, invoking native feature flows and making api calls using client's connection.
• Designed and developed an education framework for newly on-boarded users, supporting multiple types of views and dynamic content update.
• Skills: Android, Java, Android Keystore, Webviews, Computer Science fundamentals around Networking, Concurency, Databases and Cryotpgraphy, Gradle, Retrofit, Firebase

Aug 2015 – Jun 2016 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Part of the Cloud Infrastructure Team.
• Developed a .Net Cloud Configuration Management client which would interact with an existing service and remotely store a key-value configuration of the consumer. The client was developed for internal consumers. Wrote JUnit tests to cover 100% of the codebase.

Jan 2015 – Apr 2015 · 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Involves preparing assignments and taking tutorials.

May 2014 – Sep 2014 · 4 mos · remote

• The main goal of the project is: To add the Text to speech API in Firefox browser for the desktop OSes. Current status is that, we have speech synthesis service working with pico on gonk. The project aims to extend it to have speech synthesis supported on Firefox for desktop OSs as well. In the process of speech generation on different platforms, the idea is to communicate with the platform speech services, so that we don’t have to care about the engines that are being used.
• More info : https://www.google-melange.com/archive/gsoc/2014/orgs/mozilla/projects/itsyash.html

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Tokyo, Japan

• Created a web application that lets user search on the Test Automation repository. The repository contains scenario-based tests in the form of excel files.
• The web interface was created using Bootstrap, jQuery and JavaServer Pages. Controller layer was written using Java Servlets and Lucene was used for indexing.

Jan 2014 – Apr 2014 · 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Teaching Assistant for the Data Structures and Algorithms course. My work involved taking tutorials, preparing assignments and maintaining the online judge which evaluates student's submissions.

Jun 2013 – Sep 2013 · 3 mos

• The main goal of this project is to extend the functionality of the current Android App, to support “Smooth Word-Level Highlighting Synchronized with TTS” using open source “Flite” TTS engine .This would really help the dyslexic users to read and study text documents in more understandable format.
• More information : https://www.google-melange.com/archive/gsoc/2013/orgs/benetech/projects/itsyash.html

Feb 2013 – Mar 2013 · 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

• Worked as an android developer for the company