Gaurav Bhola

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San Francisco, California, United States12 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led Android Automotive OS development at Google.
Pioneered Information Insurance with Livewise.
Developed BlueStacks Payment SDK for indie app publishing.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Engineer specializing in Android and Web Development across Automotive and Fintech industries.

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AndroidSoftware DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentSoftware Architecture

Other Skills

Android Automotive OSWindow ManagementSystem-UIAppCompatSafe areaHomeScreen DevelopmentOnboarding ToolsUI DesignInformation InsuranceApp DevelopmentSecurityReactWeb App DevelopmentArchitecture DesignPython

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Experience

Livewise

All things

May 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos · Remote

"Ever wondered what would happen to your loved ones—your family, your friends—when it comes to all the money and assets you’ve worked so hard to earn? How will it reach them when you’re no longer there to guide them?"
At Livewise, our core mission is deeply personal:
“No family should ever suffer in retrieving the finances after a loved one dies.”
This mission was inspired by a personal experience.
💡 we’re pioneering a brand-new category called "Information Insurance"—where critical information is securely shared with your loved ones only after you’re no more.
Our approach to detect whether you’re alive or not is simple yet powerful.
Livewise is:
✅ Free
✅ Secure
✅ No Ads. No data sharing
Android 🔗 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.livewise&hl=en_US
iOS 🔗 https://apps.apple.com/in/app/livewise/id6471478716?platform=iphone
Know more on https://livewise.in

Information InsuranceApp DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentAndroid

Google

2 roles

Engineering Technical Lead

Promoted

Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

Area Tech Lead for the Window Management on Android Automotive OS (AAOS). IC by the day, a Guide by the night.
My team works on the Window Manager Shell, Parts of System-UI, Insets, AppCompat & Safe area and a lot more things.
My work goes into all the cars powered by AAOS (see the links). A bunch of my work goes to core android as well which has shipped to 3B+ handheld devices.

Android Automotive OSWindow ManagementSystem-UIAppCompatSafe areaAndroid+1

Engineering Technical Lead

Oct 2018 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Owned the HomeScreen for the Google I/O 19 android app.
Reponsible for all the tools used by our Feet on street agents to onboard merchants, pre-provision QRs, video verify them.

AndroidHomeScreen DevelopmentOnboarding ToolsSoftware Development

Bluestacks

2 roles

Senior Member Technical Staff

Promoted

Jan 2018 – Sep 2018 · 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

Responsibility++
○ Led the dev effort on the PikaWorld’s (Bluestacks Gaming Platform) react based web app and responsible for the entire architecture of the same. PikaWorld is the prime face of BlueStacks and has around 800K Daily Active Users.
○ Developed an open source android client for Fogbugz (a bug tracking tool used in BlueStacks) in a team of 2. (Github: https://github.com/cpunq/bugzy)

ReactWeb App DevelopmentArchitecture DesignWeb DevelopmentSoftware Architecture

Member Technical Staff

Jun 2014 – Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

Worked on some cutting edge stuff with Bluestacks R&D innovation center at Gurgaon.
Technologies worked upon: Android(primary), GoogleAppEngine - Python, Ios (Objective-c & Swift), Node js, Firebase, HTML, Angular Material, CSS, Angular Js, React-Flux-Webpack, javascript, Jquery & C#.
○ As a part of the R&D team
Created an ios application (using Swift) solely and worked on and off on the ios sdk that communicated with our webrtc management server for call initiation and management.
Developed a desktop application using Electron shell which in-turn rendered a Progressive Web App built using React-js with Flux-Alt, web-pack. It had around 100K DAU for 2 months.
Developed an app called CricQuest where users can answer some real time questions based on the currently happening cricket match and win prizes. Was responsible for the implementation of the Progressive Web App and then the Native Android App which served around 5k users. Was also partly responsible for doing the server side stuff using Google Appengine in python environment.
○ Laid down the entire architecture for the android application made to browse through the BlueStacks TV live streams and other twitch channels in a team of 3.
○ The guy behind the development of BlueStacks Payment SDK - A payment gateway compatible with existing Google Play Billing API to enable indie app publishing. This project lead to a great hands-on on the entire stack ranging form the client side Android Application, Interaction with android framework, Android IPC, Cloud Application on Google App Engine (python) and Google's No-Sql DataStore.