Jan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 3 mos

• Became mobile team Lead
• Worked on a report card of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's tenure - 2014 to 2019. Live here => https://getcrisp.news/india-under-narendra-modi/ (2019)
• Worked on supporting Hindi & other regional languages in the frontend mobile app (2019)
• Worked on story screenshot image creator tool for the marketing team to utilize for building Crisp's brand (2019)
• Worked on migrating Android codebase to upgrade & support Android v26 changes (2019)
• Optimized native Android notification builder (2019)
• Added support for dynamic addition/removal of editions like Singapore & USA
• Added support for dynamic addition/removal of languages like Hindi
• Added support to dynamically fetch the app onboarding images
• Worked on migrating Android codebase to upgrade & support Android v28 changes
• Mobile lead for Status Saver - an app to download & share WhatsApp Statuses - using Google's Flutter framework
• Added support to share images via WhatsApp share in crisp app

Apr 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

• This role primarily is for the product Crisp (formerly Tenreads), which is a news aggregator app. My work includes -
• Writing version 2 of Tenreads mobile app in April 2017 using react-native.
• New features -
• Story view included 3 main features - crisp Summary, historically relevant Timeline (if possible), and in-depth coverage from 150+ publishers (2017)
• Wikipedia articles (max 2) in the story view (2017)
• Optimized the loading of web view in the app - 80% faster (2017)
• Converted singular story view into an infinite swipeable story view (2017)
• Stable notification delivery (2017)
• Intuitive onboarding for the app (2017)
• Re-branded the Android & iOS apps (2017)
• Added country for Singapore & USA - backend API and frontend mobile (2017)
• Wrote version 2 of the internal data dashboard (backend API & frontend UI). Sat with relevant stakeholders for improving existing features & adding new useful ones. Improved content editing & push notification dispatcher (with stats) for the marketing team.
• Reducing notification story opening time - by 70% (2018)
• Worked on android native code & wrote version 1 of custom notification layout (2018)
• Helped the B2B team with data processing, loading, and experimentation tasks (2017-18)
• Worked on version 1 of language dependency parsing (2018)
• Worked version 3 of article clustering engine using vector models (2018)
• Worked on improving article content extractors - version 2 (2018)
• Worked on adding a preview mode for Story view on Crisp web (2018)
• Added merged editions support on frontend mobile app (2018)

Jan 2017 – Apr 2017 · 3 mos

• This role primarily is for the product Tenreads, which is a news aggregator app. My work includes -
• Writing version 2 of Tenreads web app using React, SASS, webpack, nginx, etc.

Dec 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

• This role primarily is for the product Tenreads, which is a news aggregator app. My work includes -
• writing version 1 of article historical context algorithm
• improving version 1 of article clustering algorithm into version 2
• running article historical context algorithm v1 in September 2016 on a large dataset of articles from 2014
• writing version 1 of data pipeline monitoring tools to that updates the relevant stakeholders
• writing version 1 of the backend API of internal data dashboard for content editing & push notifications

May 2015 – Dec 2015 · 7 mos

• This role primarily is for the product Tenreads, which is a news aggregator app. My work includes -
• maintaining backend API
• re-writing the backend API to support new product features
• creating core backend services
• writing version 1 of article clustering algorithm
• internal tool to experiment with article clustering algorithm v1
• increasing marketing reach using scheduled posts on Twitter
• writing article extractive summarization algorithm v1