Shiva Garlapati

Engineering Manager

San Francisco, California, United States18 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led Android Client Foundations team at Netflix.
Reduced app startup time by 50% at Netflix.
Designed first interactive experiences for Netflix.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C Android Development expert with a strong focus on user engagement and app performance.

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Skills

Core Skills

AndroidSoftware Development

Other Skills

JavaAgile MethodologiesA/B TestingApp PerformanceBluetoothRESTFul Web ServicesWebFrameworkDatabase DesignWeb DevelopmentFace DetectionObject TrackingRESTJavaScriptWeb ServicesAlgorithms

About

A technical leader with vast experience in Android app development and driving large-scale product innovation. At Netflix, I currently lead the Android Client Foundations (ACF) team, which is responsible for solving shared opportunities and needs of Android product engineers across Netflix.

Experience

18 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

10 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Netflix

2 roles

Engineering Manager, Android Client Foundations

Promoted

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Hybrid

I lead the Android Client Foundations (ACF) team, which is responsible for solving shared opportunities and needs of Android product engineers across Netflix. We build foundational client infrastructure, app architecture, automation, and developer frameworks with insightful release and production tooling in close collaboration with our partners.

AndroidJavaSoftware DevelopmentAgile Methodologies

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2015 – Sep 2023 · 7 yrs 10 mos · Hybrid

Android Product Team
Created and led the roadmap for monitoring and improving app performance. Reduced the app startup time by 50% overall.
Designed and built the first interactive experiences for Netflix (Titles: Word Party and Kong: King of the Apes).
Implemented several successful A/B tests and deployed them into production, such as the top 10 row on the home page.
Netflix Growth & Acquisition
Helped the APAC team create innovative signup experiences to unlock new acquisitions in India.
Implemented projects such as StreamFest: A weekend of free Netflix in India and in-app modals to unlock multi-month discounts.
Netflix Games
Led the Games initiative and created the first SDK that game developers could integrate.
Created a unified user experience between the Games SDK and streaming app for creating and editing game handles.

AndroidJavaSoftware DevelopmentA/B TestingApp Performance

Amazon lab126

Software Engineer

Oct 2013 – Oct 2015 · 2 yrs · Sunnyvale, CA

Designed and implemented an Android application to perform software updates for Amazon supported Bluetooth devices for the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick.
Developed a Content Provider for Android system applications to query and retrieve data of the connected Amazon Bluetooth Devices such as Amazon Fire TV remote and Amazon Fire Game Controller.

AndroidJavaBluetoothSoftware Development

Airwatch

Java and Android Developer

Oct 2012 – Oct 2013 · 1 yr · Greater Atlanta Area

Developed AirWatch Content Locker app for secure distribution and mobile access to corporate content.
Designed a flexible UI compatible on all screen sizes and platforms (API Level 8 and above).
Encrypt and decrypt content on device using the industry standard 256-bit SSL specification.
Developed RESTFul web services to communicate with the server to sync content.
Experienced in android development on user interface, and compatibility on tablets and handsets.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airwatch.contentlocker&hl=en

JavaAndroidRESTFul Web ServicesSoftware Development

Connecture inc.

Application Developer

Feb 2011 – Oct 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos

Developed custom applications for online health insurance process automation and sales for several clients.
Developed in WebFramework, a proprietary web application framework for developing J2EE web applications.

JavaWebFramework

Office of research services - university of georgia

Application Programmer Assistant

Feb 2010 – Mar 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo

I work on the design and development of a new web enabled database for administrative support of equipment inventory and service records. I also work in a team in the maintenance of legacy systems and implementation of Chematix, which replaces the legacy systems with a comprehensive cradle to grave chemical tracking system. I also work on designing databases supporting the implementation of a new electronic Research Administration (eRA) system.

Database DesignWeb Development

University of georgia

2 roles

Master's Thesis

Promoted

May 2009 – Jul 2010 · 1 yr 2 mos

Master's Thesis: A Comparison of SAWSDL based Semantic Web Service Discovery Algorithms
Abstract: The advent of Web Services has revolutionized the way the web-based applications communicate. However, an ongoing problem has been how to discover the appropriate web services. There have been techniques which were purely based on the syntactic aspects of the web services. This approach is often not adequate due to the fact that it never really considered the semantics of the web service. Henceforth, there has been significant research on semantically discovering web services. In this thesis, we compare and analyze three SAWSDL based semantic web service discovery algorithms namely, SAWSDL-MX, MWSDI and TVERSKY.

JavaFace DetectionObject Tracking

Research Assistant

Aug 2007 – May 2009 · 1 yr 9 mos

Integrated the Face Detection and Object Tracking technique to build the Face Tracking System.
Implemented the Viola-Jones Face detection algorithm in JAVA to identify the human faces.
Implemented the Kernel Based Object Tracking algorithm in JAVA for tracking faces in a video.
Evaluated the system on multiple videos to obtain the accuracy of the tracking.