Milan Aggarwal 🇮🇳

Software Engineer

South Delhi, Delhi, India13 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led development of high-performing camera SDK at Microsoft.
Achieved significant user engagement improvements at Hike.
Expert in iPhone application development and architecture.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Mobile Application Developer with expertise in B2C SaaS solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Iphone Application DevelopmentSoftware Development

Other Skills

.NETCC#C++CSSData StructuresEclipseGitHTMLJavaJavaScriptLinuxMicrosoft OfficeMySQLObjective-C

About

Enthusiastic, Quick learner fascinated by new Technology specially in the world of mobile phones.

Experience

13 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Microsoft

2 roles

Principal Software Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2021 – Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Built the foundation architecture and released NextGen effects which would allow users of OneCamera SDK to add and edit effects at anypoint to their videos i.e. pre, during or post recording.
Leading the iOS team at Microsoft IDC for building a world class high performing Camera and video editing SDK for Microsoft, which achieves the One Microsoft vision by empowering existing and new products like Microsoft Flip, GroupMe, XBox, Lens, Teams, Union etc with camera capabilities.

iPhone Application DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentData StructuresObjective-CSwiftJava+6

Hike

4 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Sep 2020 – Mar 2021 · 6 mos

design, architect and built the new vibe app by hike from scratch. Also led and managed a team of 3 devs while building this app. Achieving initial reads of 99.34% on v1 build. Reached 99.7% within two sprints and hitting 100% DCFU on some days.
lead a team in scaling the hikeland platform on hike from 1-1 interactions to group of 4 and add support for group chat, group call & ludo as a gaming experience.

iPhone Application DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentData StructuresObjective-CSwiftJava+5

Tech Lead

Jan 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

lead development efforts for hikeland in iOS
Built unity bridge in order to add unity engine in iOS and facilitate iOS - Unity communication.
Built end to end functionality of watch party - watching videos with your friends in hikeland
scaled the architecture to handle group of 4 friends from 1-1 in hikeland
enabled the app to make use of UI using native components only
drove efforts in helping release team reduce iOS release cycles from 30 days to 15 days

iPhone Application DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentData StructuresObjective-CSwift

Sr. Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2014 – Jan 2019 · 4 yrs 9 mos

2016-2019 Sr. iOS developer for hike app
rebuilt and rearchitected the chat interface of the iOS incorporating MVVM and inheritance
built FTUE framework to show FTUE on any view in the app
Help increase DCFU from 88% to 97%
Led development and made key changes to support universal identifier ‘hikeid’ enabling users to interact with other users without the need of their phone numbers.
Architected and built the feature for public groups on hike
2014-2016 Sr. Windows Phone developer for hike app
Rebuilt app from scratch for windows phone 8.1 incorprating MVVM and DI principles
Built features like hidden mode - ability to hide chats
Improved File transfer speed by 15-20%

iPhone Application DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentData StructuresObjective-CSwiftC#+4

Software Engineer

May 2013 – Apr 2014 · 11 mos

Worked on the windows phone app for hike messenger
Handle end to end implementation of two way chat theme
Incorporated features like last seen and support for transfer of images/videos/audio

iPhone Application DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentData StructuresObjective-CSwift