Jun 2022 – May 2023 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Company: Esper.io provides a robust platform enabling enterprises to automate, monitor, and optimize their Android device fleets for remote deployment and management. The platform empowers businesses to easily manage their devices with increased operational efficiency and security.
• Role: As Android Team Lead, I directed the team's technical strategy and execution on key platform enhancements. I spearheaded initiatives to improve code quality and scalability, achieving 95% unit test coverage, while overseeing the successful delivery of the customer-facing Blueprint module.
• Blueprint Module Delivery: Delivered the Blueprint module— a set of instructions applied to devices via the Account Manager API, ensuring seamless device configuration and management.
• Unit Test Coverage: Led efforts on the Unit Test coverage enhancement plan, achieving 95% code coverage, ensuring robust testing and higher quality code.
• Modularization: Modularized the Blueprint module, creating a separate entity within the app for better maintainability and scalability.

Apr 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Company: Animall is one of India’s leading platforms for dairy farmers, connecting millions of users across Tier-2,3 cities. The platform empowers farmers by enabling livestock trading, access to veterinary services, community support, and driving digital inclusion in rural markets.
• Role: Founding team member, playing a pivotal role in building Animall’s Android app and scaling its product for rural markets:
• Complete Android Ownership: Led the entire Android development cycle, from initial architecture to production releases, ensuring a stable and scalable app experience for 1.2 million monthly active users.
• Build for Bharat: Designed and maintained features optimized for tier-2, 3 users, focusing on high performance on low-end devices and limited networks by leveraging Android offline capabilities and battery optimization techniques.
• Pod & Team Leadership: Directed both the Supply and Growth pods, collaborating with product and design to set the roadmap and drive key initiatives. Simultaneously, I led the Android engineering team's execution, translating product strategy into technical deliverables and ensuring high-quality implementation.
• Process & Quality Champion: Established company-level development and QA processes, reducing SLA by 20%, improving release quality, reducing bugs by 37%, and streamlining engineering workflows as the company scaled.
• Early-Stage Scaling: Contributed to setting up foundational tech, in collaboration with cross-functional partners and built multiple prototypes to be incorporated in the main app and support Animall’s rapid user growth in emerging markets.

Jul 2018 – Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

• Company: Paytm is India’s leading digital payments and financial services platform, serving millions of users with services ranging from mobile recharges, bill payments, travel bookings, to banking and wealth management. As a fintech pioneer, Paytm drives financial inclusion at scale across India.
• Role: Core Android team, contributed to large-scale app architecture transformation and built multiple product verticals like Core, Flights, Banking, and Recharges
• App Re-Architecture (Core Team): Played a key role in the re-architecture of Paytm app— breaking down the monolithic codebase into modular Dynamic-Feature Modules for each business vertical. Built a Download Manager for seamless on-demand feature downloads, improving app scalability and reducing initial app size by 50%.
• Flights Vertical (Flights Team): Designed and implemented MVVM architecture using LiveData and DataBinding for the Flight Search-Route Preview feature. Enhanced user experience by implementing efficient local sort & filter on API data.
• Banking & Metro Features: Built the Fixed Deposit (FD) creation flow for Paytm Bank app, contributing to its wealth management offerings. Developed an MVP-based architecture for the Metro-Recharge vertical, streamlining ticket recharge flows.
• Wi-Fi Hotspot Project: Worked on the Wi-Fi Hotspot feature, enabling users to connect to nearby partnered hotspots and enjoy seamless internet access through Paytm.

Aug 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Company: Balance Tech Pvt. Ltd. was a fintech startup focused on financial wellness to help users manage their savings and spending effectively. Later acquired by Paytm.
• Role: First engineer in the company, owning end-to-end Android development and setting up scalable foundations for the product:
• Founding Android Engineer: Worked on the app from day one, building a stable, robust, and scalable architecture from scratch, right from coding to publishing APKs on the Play Store and handling production issues.
• Clean Architecture Implementation: Integrated technologies like RxJava, RxAndroid, SQLBrite, Dagger, ButterKnife to establish a clean, modular, and testable codebase based on the Model-View-Presenter (MVP) pattern.
• Firebase Ecosystem Integration: Implemented major Firebase services including Auth, Performance Monitoring, Test Lab, Crashlytics, Cloud Messaging, and Analytics — providing deeper insights into app performance and improving stability.
• Full Lifecycle Ownership: Managed everything from adding new product features to resolving technical bugs, effectively balancing both product growth and technical excellence.

Feb 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Jaipur · On-site

• I have worked on the product from scratch while implementing - material design,
• real-time chat, push notifications, payment integrations etc.
• Out of interest, I have also worked upon getting Karosell featured in ProductHunt,
• iamwire, Yourstory, Tracxn etc. along with getting more sellers onboard. After all, a product is not only about code.