Prajakta Shitole

Engineering Manager

San Jose, California, United States19 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Android development and user interface design.
Led operational efforts for Android applications at Netflix.
Strong background in automation and software quality engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Mobile Applications and Software Engineering expert with a focus on Android development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Android DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringMobile ApplicationsSoftware Quality EngineeringMainframe Development

Other Skills

User Interface DevelopmentGraphQLNodeQuarkGroovyOn-call ManagementRelease ManagementObservabilityOperational EffortsJetpack ComposeReactJSWeb Frontend DevelopmentAutomationUI AutomationSecurity ScansYouTube API

About

My team focuses on Infrastructure, developer productivity, tooling, CI/CD, testing, deployment, and operations for the Web platform and Growth experiences. My Specialties: Mobile and web-based applications, Testing, Delivery, and Operations.

Experience

19 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

9 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Netflix

2 roles

Engineering Manager, Growth Engineering

Promoted

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

Senior Software Engineer, Android

Mar 2017 – Jul 2024 · 7 yrs 4 mos

Worked as an Android developer
Developed user interfaces utilizing Android Views, Jetpack Compose, and Epoxy, adhering to architectural patterns such as MVI, MVVM, and Mavericks.
Implemented backend-for-frontend and mid-tier services using GraphQL, NodeQuark, and Groovy.
Led efforts for managing On-call, Releases, Observability and Operational efforts for the Android tea

Android DevelopmentUser Interface DevelopmentGraphQLNodeQuarkGroovyOn-call Management+4

Yahoo

2 roles

Mobile Application Developer

Jan 2015 – Feb 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Sunnyvale

Working on developing apps on android using Native android framework. Also worked on developing web front end for internal tool using ReactJS for about 2-3 months

Android DevelopmentReactJSWeb Frontend DevelopmentMobile Applications

Tech Yahoo! Software Quality Engineer

Jul 2011 – Jan 2015 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Sunnyvale

Worked on automation for Search Front end. Included automation for anti Adblock, traffic distribution, error log handling, Security scans, automation on an internal tool, and other UI related automation.

AutomationUI AutomationSecurity ScansSoftware Quality Engineering

Logitech

Android Software Engineer

Jan 2011 – May 2011 · 4 mos

Worked on Google TV as an Android Software Engineer. At Logitech I also worked on YouTube API's, Javascript, JSP's.

Android DevelopmentYouTube APIJavaScriptJSP

Yahoo!

Intern at Yahoo!

Jun 2010 – Aug 2010 · 2 mos

As an intern at Yahoo! Social Directory Team. Worked on automation framework and migrated from an old Php based framework to Java (TestNG) based framework. Partnered heavily with cross functional teams to gather requirements and maintain stability of the existing systems. Worked on RestFul WebServices

Dhingana

Android Developer

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr · Sunnyvale

Developed the android application from scratch for Dhingana (Indian music station now acquired by Rdio). Was the only developer working on android application. Launched the application on Play store. This was part of Masters Project at SJSU

Android DevelopmentApplication LaunchMobile Applications

San jose state university

Graduate Student

Aug 2008 – Jan 2011 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Masters in Software Engineering at San Jose State University. As a student developed an android application for an indian music station - "Dhingana". Was the only android developer for the app.