Chirag Shenoy

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led teams to build scalable products for millions of users.
Presented at multiple international mobile conferences.
Expert in Android and iOS development best practices.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Mobile Application Development expert with a strong focus on scalability and performance.

Contact

chiragshenoy@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Android DevelopmentIos Development

Other Skills

Agile DevelopmentAlgorithm DesignAndroidAndroid DesignAndroid StudioArchitectural DesignCC++Code ReviewCommunicationContinuous Delivery (CD)Continuous Integration (CI)CoroutinesDatabase DesignDebugging

About

Hello! My name is Chirag, and I'm an hands-on Engineering Manager for Android and iOS at Razorpay! I have worked on mega scale products which cater to over 50 Million Daily Active Users! Adept at building 0-1 products while following best practices with good documentation and testing. I love to foster high-performing teams and cultivate a vibrant workplace culture. I'm a firm believer in the transformative power of technology to shape the future. Versatile, with sharp problem solving skills and passion for building delightful and robust applications following best practices. I have presented at 3 International Mobile Conferences - 1. Droidcon - Amman, Jordan, 2024 2. Flutter Europe - Warsaw, Poland, 2020 3. FlutterExp - Heraklion, Greece, 2019

Experience

10 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

1 yr 6 mos

Current Experience

Razorpay

Senior Engineering Manager

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Leading a team of 12 developers to build the Turbo UPI Plugin, resulting in an increase of the payment success rate from 97%, alongside a reduction in onboarding time from 10 seconds to 3 seconds.
Spearheaded merchant integration and deployment for strategic clients such as Meesho, IOCL, Ixigo, Zomato, Astrotalk - effectively shortening their integration timelines from several months to weeks.
Architected an innovative, unified UPI SDK that supports multiple variants, significantly reducing integration time from weeks to days, enhancing system stability, expediting feature rollouts, and accelerating time-to-market across various platforms.
Involved interfacing with several stakeholder - Product, Design, Business & Sales, Fin-ops, Bank-ops, BHIM, NPCI and external Merchants.

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Sharechat

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Sep 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

Owner of multiple consumer facing pods - Feed, Growth, Discovery, Notifications, Creator Ecosystem and Consumer Experience, with a team of 6 direct reports.
Heading the App Performance charter, and responsible for all app health metrics.
Serving 350 Million (35 Crore) Monthly Active Users as part of India's biggest Social Media Network.
Contributing to ShareChat's Android and iOS apps, with strong focus on best practices, massive scalability and high performance.
Engaging in collaborative efforts with product managers, designers, and cross-functional teams to ensure harmonisation between UI designs, business objectives, and user requirements.

AndroidiOS DevelopmentJavaKotlinScrumAgile Development+3

Technical Lead

Promoted

Oct 2021 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

Built ShareChat iOS app from scratch. Architected core components of the app, and developed several features, including Feed, Discovery, Consumer Experience, Growth, Notifications, CI/CD, Test suite for ShareChat and Moj iOS Apps.
Scaled up the team from 7 members to 42! Conducted over 250 technical interviews.
Nominated as the President of the Engineering Hiring Committee.

iOS DevelopmentJavaKotlinScrumAgile DevelopmentTechnical Leadership

Mobile Application Developer (SDE - 2)

Oct 2018 – Oct 2021 · 3 yrs

Building delightful features for ShareChat Android App. Part of Growth, Feed, and Creation pod.
Also, contributed to the Flutter iOS app, presented at Flutter Europe, and Flutter Exp International Conferences.
Part of the team which created and released the Moj App under 40 hours!

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#learn

Mobile Application Developer

Jan 2016 – Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

Wore multiple hats during my time at HashLearn
Android App Development
Built major parts of the front-end UI and functionality, grew the app from 5k to
250k downloads on the Google Play Store, with crash-free user sessions at 99.62%.
Proactively implemented POCs and drove product enhancements on UI, UX and user behaviour.
iOS App Development
Took up the initiative to build and lead the Student and Tutor versions of the HashLearn app, thus opening the iOS chapter at the company.
Architected and developed both the iOS Apps from scratch , including project scaffolding, code modularisation, choosing Design Patterns and setting up the core network layer and data model layer of the app.
Web Development
Responsible for designing, developing and maintaining the Recruitment Portal for
Tutors, which amplified tutoring hiring by 21x.
Over 8,000 tutors have been recruited through this portal.
Flutter
Prototyped multiple apps for HashLearn, which were used for internal purposes.
Update 2021: Acquired by Byju's EdTech