Gaurav Chaddha

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Built Android apps used by millions of users.
Increased port-ins by 148% through caching.
Improved ads revenue by 4% with innovative solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and AdTech software engineer with a strong focus on Android development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Android DevelopmentSoftware Development

Other Skills

Ads SDKAndroid StudioAnimationsAsanaBase ComponentsBluetooth Low EnergyCI WorkflowCachingComposeCoroutinesCross-team CollaborationEvent LoggingFunctional ProgrammingGitGithub

About

Engineering @ PhonePe. Ex - Zomato. I solve problems by shipping software. Building Android apps used by millions of users. Love talking about Android, Music, Football and Drumming.

Experience

7 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs

Current Experience

Phonepe

2 roles

Software Engineer

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

PAYMENTS CORE TEAM
Migrating critical Payments page to Compose, enhancing animations, performance and maintainability.
Designed and built the new Payments Home Page with a highly extendable and manageable design and improved user experience with load times of 100ms
Worked on UPI number porting increasing port-ins by 148% by implementing caching
Collaborated cross-team with Product, Design, QA, driving decisions as a technical POC for all payments-core
Mentoring engineers in best coding practices and developing a task-estimation framework.
Developed new Base Components in Compose, contributing to core app architecture and became a compose expert across Android teams

ComposeAnimationsPerformanceMaintainabilityCachingCross-team Collaboration+4

Software Engineer

Jun 2022 – Present · 4 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

ADS TEAM
Designed and developed Ads SDK from scratch, with modular design, extensive event logging and improved latency by 500ms, impressions by 10% & clicks by 8%
Added support for all creative types ads (Images, Videos, Web-Banners, Icons) with unified impression and click handling.
Built Programmatic ads support, Mediation layer support, integrated GAM SDK and got certified from
OMID, IAS, DV etc.
Became the technical POC for Ads across the organization and collaborated with business, product, operations.
Conceptualized and developed preloading ads, improving ads revenue by 4%
Architected Ads config system, decoupling the sdk from internal systems
Developed internal tooling for app-configs system improving developer and QA productivity by 20%
Advocated for micro-apps for feature-development across teams, reducing build times by 90%
Defined SDK-release guidelines for all SDK’s at phonepe, and also contributed to stabilizing SDK sample app library

Ads SDKModular DesignEvent LoggingLatency ImprovementProgrammatic AdsMediation Layer+3

Zomato

3 roles

Software Engineer II - Mobile Platform

Jan 2022 – May 2022 · 4 mos

Designed and executed platform roadmap. Leading a team of 4 engineers.
Improved Gradle build scripts and optimized CI workflow ymls which reduced build times by 20%.
Developed network-call retry mechanism using Retrofit which boosted page-load success by 8%.
Shrank app-size by 11% leading to increased install rates by 5%.
Built memory-leaks dashboard, identifying impactful leaks which reduced app memory usage by 18%.
Responsible for evolving internal libraries architecture for a multi-organizational structure.

GradleCI WorkflowNetwork Call MechanismMemory Leaks DashboardAndroid DevelopmentSoftware Development

Software Engineer II

Promoted

Jan 2021 – Dec 2021 · 11 mos

Developed Zomato Nutrition and Grocery businesses using Kotlin, MVVM, Room and Coroutines.
Conceptualized and implemented menu offline search based on Lucene which increased funnel CTR by 56%.
Worked on order-online business reducing new users drop-off points by 11%.
Fixed top crashes resulting in an increase of crash-free user sessions from 98.7% to 99.8%.

KotlinMVVMRoomCoroutinesAndroid DevelopmentSoftware Development

Software Engineer

Oct 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Worked in the consumer android team developing various parts of Zomato app.
Shipped Zomato Pro - A membership program for benefits on dining out and food delivery.
Reduced app startup time by 42% by offloading tasks off main thread
Built Zeus : A real-time event reporting tool which saved up-to 1800 hours yearly.
Developed multiple features (Zomato Pay, Videos framework, Contactless dining, Deals platform) using Jetpack Components and ExoPlayer.

Samsung electronics

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jun 2018 – Oct 2018 · 4 mos

I'm worked as a software engineer with the 'Framework' group. My responsibilities included:
Spearheading overhaul of apps and task edge for Galaxy S10.
Restructuring and maintaining quick tools and yahoo apps.

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2018 – May 2018 · 4 mos

I was an intern with the 'Framework' group. My primary contributions were:
Engineered a security solution for android called Redact.
Contributed ideas to Samsung Go platform which led to an improvement in battery life by 40%.
Upgraded quick tools to achieve 95% accuracy.

Intugine technologies

Software Engineer Intern

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Intugine technologies is a bangalore based startup making gesture and voice-based wearables. I worked on 'Nimble', a motion sensing ring to control devices around you.

Witworks (www.witworks.com)

Software Developer Intern

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Witworks (acquired by Myntra) was a consumer IoT company. I worked on the smartwatch 'Blink'. Built core 'Blink' applications like system, dialer and fitness.