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Girdhar Patel

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 19 years of experience in software development.
  • Expert in mobile application development for Android and iOS.
  • Proven track record in building high-performing teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Mobile Application Development expert in Healthcare and E-commerce sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Mobile Application DevelopmentEngineering LeadershipProject ManagementAndroid DevelopmentSoftware Development

Other Skills

CommunicationGitMobile DevicesJiraInterviewingAgile MethodologiesSoftware Project ManagementREST APIsMobile ApplicationsRequirements AnalysisJenkinsJSONKotlinAndroid SDKAndroid

About

Summary Global engineering leader with nearly 19 years of comprehensive experience in software development, specializing in building and mentoring high-performing teams across multiple locations, including India and the US. Adept in leading projects from inception to deployment, with a strong focus on mobile application development for Android and iOS across diverse domains such as healthcare and e-commerce. Experience Leadership and Team Building • Successfully led and built software development teams across various locations. Currently, I lead a team of 17 Android and iOS engineers located in Bangalore, India, and Reston, US. • Mentored team members, providing technical guidance and support to foster growth and innovation. • Set individual goals, conducted mid-year and year-end reviews to ensure continuous development and alignment with organizational objectives. Project Management • Conducted project estimations and planning in collaboration with Product Managers. • Managed day-to-day team activities and orchestrated releases from the QA phase to production. • Proficient in Agile and Scrum methodologies, ensuring streamlined project execution and delivery. Technical Expertise • Extensive experience in mobile application development for Android and iOS. • Collaborated with UI/UX design teams to define workflows, wireframes, and user interfaces. • Strong knowledge of tools such as Git, JIRA, and Splunk for efficient project management and troubleshooting.

Experience

20 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Sap labs india

2 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2024Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

Sr. Engineering Manager - Mobile

Mar 2020Mar 2024 · 4 yrs

  • Provide technical and people leadership to the mobile engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence
  • Set clear objectives and performance expectations for the teams, ensuring alignment with the overall business goals
  • Conduct performance evaluations and provide constructive feedback for continuous improvement
  • Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of mobile applications, ensuring adherence to quality standards and project timelines.
  • Collaborate with product managers and other stakeholders to prioritize features and enhancements
  • Work with the Product Managers to define KPIs in order to measure and monitor implementation progress and value, as well as ongoing maintenance and support of products in the mobile portfolio
  • Work closely with the UX/UI design teams to implement and refine user interfaces
  • Recruit, mentor, and develop high-performing mobile engineering teams
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Mast global

Development Manager - Mobile

Dec 2019Feb 2020 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

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Nextgen healthcare

Development Manager - Mobile

Feb 2018Nov 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore

  • Working closely with project managers, developers, QAs, requirement and business team
  • Managing day to day activities of Android and iOS teams, helping them in resolving technical road blocks and tracking their work to closure
  • Involved in design and architectural discussion of Android and iOS apps
  • Working with UI/UX teams and provide technical input in creating wireframes and workflows
  • Doing code review for Android work
  • Facilitating customer support and production issues
  • Doing estimation for feature tickets
  • Monitor team's progress during development phase on each feature tickets to make sure they are on track
  • Identify and raise any risk which might impact the timeline
  • Working with solutions and requirement teams in defect triage during regression and beta testing
  • Setting goals of the teammates at the start of the year and then do quarterly and year end review. Also facilitate their appraisal discussions
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Bookmyshow

Technical Manager - Android

Nov 2015Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Working closely with project managers, developers, QAs, operation team and business team
  • Handling all the Sprint ceremonies (planning, review, retrospective), team handling and tracking their work to closure
  • Coding, code review and handling customer support and production issues
  • Involved in designing and architectural decision making of Android app
  • Developing business logic of various modules and integration of APIs for the same
  • Developed social login module for G+ and Facebook
  • Worked on modules having integration of Google map, Geocoding, reverse geocoding APIs
  • Wrote generic module for image downloading using Picasso
  • Handled integration of Crashlytics, FreshDesk, Parceler SDKs
  • Modified square’s TimesSquare library as per business needs
  • Worked on creating music player features through Android MediaPlayer API
  • Implemented crossfade feature and pre-fetching feature for the player
  • Worked on showing lyrics of the song currently playing
  • Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bt.bms&hl=en
CommunicationGitMobile DevicesJiraInterviewingAgile Methodologies+16

Welldoc, inc

2 roles

Technical Manager

Jan 2012Nov 2015 · 3 yrs 10 mos

  • Hands on Development
  • Requirement analysis with the clinical team
  • Collaborating with the UI/UX design team to define workflows, wireframes and user interfaces
  • Integration with BG meter, e.g, Telcare, Shenmintech
  • Integration with Samsung SHealth application
  • Defining the protocol structures to be used for communication b/w mobile and server
  • Work closely with technology team to get the features implemented on time
  • Managing team’s day to day activities, managing releases from QA phase till production
  • Debugging production issues and giving support
  • Writing design documents
  • Unit testing, integration testing and bug fixing
  • Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.welldoc.platform.android&hl=en
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Technical Lead

Oct 2010Dec 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Working at http://www.forbes.com/lists/2011/28/most-promising-companies-11_WellDoc_2TA4.html
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Wipro technologies

Technical Lead

Jun 2010Sep 2010 · 3 mos

  • In my short tenure at Wipro, I was involved in maintenance of Set-Top-Box application.
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Infosys

2 roles

Product Technical Lead

Oct 2009May 2010 · 7 mos

  • Worked on Set-Top-Box (DTH) applications using MHDK Core Java Platform Specification with few J2ME mobile applications
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Technical Specialist (TS)

Sep 2007Sep 2009 · 2 yrs

  • I joined Infosys in Sep 2007 as a J2ME developer. I have worked for application development for DTH(Set top Box) and J2ME applications.
CommunicationGitCore JavaJ2MESet Top BoxSoftware Development+1

Remoba inc

Software Engineer

Feb 2005Aug 2007 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • I joined Remoba Inc as a Fresher. I had worked on thin mail client application on J2ME platform which uses POP, IMAP, SMTP protocol related things.
CommunicationGitJ2MESoftware Development

Education

A. D. Patel Institute Of Technology, Karamsad 001

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Science

Jan 2000Jan 2004

Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar

BE — Computer Science

Jan 2000Jan 2004

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