Tarun SINGAL

Product Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India19 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led development of high-impact mobile applications at Microsoft.
Expert in software architecture and product development.
Proven track record in enhancing user experience and app ratings.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Embedded Systems expert with strong mobile application development skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentSoftware ArchitectureMobile Application DevelopmentC/c++Video Compression Concepts

Other Skills

People ManagementStakeholder ManagementMobile ApplicationsCustomer ExperienceEngineering DesignManagementKotlinSoftware Design and DevelopmentAndroid SDKJavaSystems DesignSoftware DevelopmentAndroid DevelopmentObject Oriented DesignData structures and Algorithms

About

I have keen interests in software development and enjoy taking up new challenges. Experienced in software architecture study and definition, requirement analysis, design, implementation, optimization, debugging, integration, testing and post release customer support and issue resolution. Passionate about learning new areas and solving ambiguous problems Always eager to learn new things and methods, exhibit autonomy and initiative in work, self learner and adaptable to fast pace environment. Good communication skills and a team player. SKILLS • Java, Kotlin, C++, Android development, MVP, MVVM, TDD • SOLID, Clean architecture, OOPS, Design Patterns, Reactive Programming • RxJava, Dagger2, OkHTTP, Retrofit, Coroutines, JetPack • React, React Native, JavaScript • Accessibility, OAuth, RESTful API, JSON, SQLite • Git, Agile methodologies, Azure DevOps, Gradle

Experience

Microsoft

4 roles

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

Building Copilot Notebooks for Mobile - an AI powered workspace for M365 users
Delivered OneNote web endpoint for 20M active users providing delightful and performant experiences to boost productivity

Product DevelopmentPeople ManagementWeb Development

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Sep 2021 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Microsoft ToDo (Android)
Owning product development for MS ToDo for Android. To Do is highly rated app on GP with lean size and solid quality with millions of monthly users. Deeply focused on delivering simple yet delightful task management experience.
Leading development using agile model. Delivered feature releases, closing significant product gaps and user pain points. As a result, successfully improved the app rating to 4.725.
New MS Planner Mobile App
Owned engineering charter for New Planner mobile app development and its strategy. Led a crew of 5 engineers starting from its inception to architecture development. Proposed strategy to consolidate the mobile app portfolio with new apps.
New MS Planner in Teams
It's a new MS offering in work management domain which combines power of ToDo, Planner and Project under single application. Application is already in GA with tens of millions of active users.
Owned multiple areas in New Planner app launched in May 2024. Led multiple crews with a total size of upto 11 engineers.
Successfully delivered personal task management vertical of the app (aka MyTasks) along with critical user engagement feature like NPS and NLP for due date detection in task.
Owned complete horizontal for feature flighting control and A|B Experimentation. Led ground-up development of complete experimentation infrastructure from ideation, architecture to its GA release

Product DevelopmentStakeholder ManagementPeople ManagementMobile ApplicationsCustomer ExperienceEngineering Design+7

Senior Software Engineer | Tech Lead

Promoted

Feb 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

Working on Microsoft ToDo. Founding member in ToDo Android team in IDC
Delivered multiple complex features including ML scenario like list suggestion for tasks, image to task etc

Product DevelopmentMobile Application DevelopmentKotlinSoftware Design and DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentAndroid Development+1

Software Engineer 2

May 2016 – Feb 2020 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Worked on Microsoft OneNote Android and Sticky Notes
Delivered sticky notes on OneNote and Office.
Developed support for 64bit and SKIA based Graphics support to modernize stack
Developed OneNote UX Refresh to support floating tab design
Developed Note editing command bar
Accessibility support as per MAS specification

Android SDK

Stmicroelectronics

4 roles

Staff Engineer

Sep 2013 – Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Development of AVS+, VP9 entropy decoder HW engines using high level synthesis (HLS) methodology. Complete work was done in HLS compilers with C/C++ semantics support.
Over the years developed various multimedia video software stack modules like low level drivers, native media components (HW accelerated) , android multimedia frameworks (stagefright), Video IP software models (Reference as well as VSoC) and Preprocessor HW IP for AVS+ using HLS methodology.
Core Skills:
C/C++, Object Oriented Design
Data structures and Algorithms
Video compression concepts
Video codecs like H.264, VP9, AVS+, JPEG, MPEG2
Low level driver development
Linux kernel and device drivers
ARM architecture
OpenMAX IL
Mobile multimedia frameworks like Android Stagefright
Contributed during various stages of project beginning from architecture definition to design, implementation to testing and customer support.
Main responsibilities:
Top level architecture, HW/SW partitioning and interface definition of IP
Development of Software reference models of IP
Development of functionally accurate C/C++ implementation of IP at alogrithmic level also known as C-HLS
Development of TLM based IP VSoC models
Development of low level drivers
Comprehensive test plan creation to cover all features and possible value ranges
Providing support to firmware and driver development teams on various issues faced while using IP
Profiling C/C++ code using Certitude and analyze results to increase code coverage by adding more test cases
Successfully delivered 03 HW IPs:
1. AVS+ Entropy Decoder Engine : Commercialized through STiH390.
http://www.st.com/web/catalog/mmc/FM131/SC2058/PF261660
2. VP9 Entropy Decoder Engine
3. JPEG Decoder

C/C++Object Oriented DesignData structures and AlgorithmsVideo compression conceptsVideo codecsLow level driver development+4

Technical Lead

Oct 2011 – Sep 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos

Supported Android multimedia framework(Stagefright) and OpenMAX IL H.264 decoder Integration on GB, ICS and JB
Productization of OpenMAX IL H.264 decoder component playback usecase on android platform
Participated in customer support camps in France for speedy resolution of issues
Worked on various smartphones projects from different vendors which successfully hit the market:
Samsung Galaxy Series : S3 Mini, S Advance, Beam, ACE 2
Sony : Xperia P, Xperia U, Xperia Sola
hTC : Desire 400, Sensation Z710T
Implementation of task and callback queue manager using pthreads for HVA

Senior System Software Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2009 – Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Involved in development of multimedia video subsystem and architecture
Design and development of buffer sharing feature of OpenMAX IL specification
Implemented testbench for testing STE's OpenMAX IL implementation
Design and Development of HW accelerated OpenMAX IL based video components for JPEG, MPEG2, H.264

System Software Engineer

Aug 2007 – Jun 2009 · 1 yr 10 mos

Low Level Device Driver Development for HW accelerated JPEG decoder on ARM11 based ST8820
Study of OpenMAX IL specification.

L&t emsys

Graduate Engineering Trainee

Jul 2006 – Jul 2007 · 1 yr · Mumbai Area, India

Worked at hardware board level for L&T’s MCCB product line. Designed discrete electronic component circuit boards. Developed hardware development boards for software developers. Debugging of hardware circuits and resolving MCCB’s calibration problems.