Sanket Mendon

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 5 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Spearheaded payment processing enhancements boosting revenue.
Developed in-house mapping SDK, reducing costs significantly.
Implemented identity verification flow, increasing application throughput.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Transportation-focused Android Engineer with strong product development expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Android DevelopmentSolution ArchitectureProduct DevelopmentSoftware ArchitectureSoftware Development

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsApplication DevelopmentAzure ServicesChatbot DevelopmentClean ArchitectureConcurrent ProgrammingConfluenceCoroutinesData StructuresDesign PatternsFirebaseGitGitlabIdentity Verification

About

I am an experienced android engineer with strong foundations in design patterns and architecture principles with a successful track record in building new features and products with the best possible consumer experiences in the B2C and B2B industry. Skilled in developing native mobile applications using the latest Android SDK and Kotlin, adhering to high code quality and engineering best practices with a knack for improving overall performance of the product using data structures and algorithms. I also possess good exposure in requirement analysis, agile methodologies and a good understanding of conceptualizing ideas and transforming them to usable products for consumers.

Experience

10 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Cheq

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

1. As a founding member of the team, spearheaded the end-to-end HLD and LLD solutioning for the credit card and utility payments module, enhancing the platform's payment processing capabilities. This vertical accounts for 70% of the total business revenue.
2. Integrated support for multiple payment instruments, including CheQ Wallet and chip redemption, and implemented robust features for handling global and individual downtime, while integrating bank and partner offers to enhance the user experience and ensure high availability.
3. Architected a scalable solution to support the Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) and fallback payment gateways, ensuring seamless payment processing across a wide range of services.
4. Improved the card addition and verification process by implementing config-driven tokenization, card scanning, and NFC technology, streamlining the onboarding of new cards. This resulted in a 30% reduction in user dropouts during the journey and a 0.5% increase in new cards added to the platform on a month-to-month basis.
5. Integrated multiple third-party lending partners into the platform, expanding the range of loan offerings available on CheQ.
6. Implemented a comprehensive customer identity verification flow supporting EKYC and CKYC, and integrated the Digio e-sign SDK for digital signing. This resulted in a significant reduction in user dropouts, thereby increasing application throughput by 60%.
7. Engineered and implemented a server-driven UI widgetization framework using Jetpack Compose, enabling seamless rendering of UI widget components. This innovation improved UI responsiveness, enhancing the user experience and increasing the average click-through rate from less than 0.4% to over 1%. Additionally, it facilitated the efficient onboarding of partner brands' ads and vouchers, resulting in a 15% month-over-month increase in revenue from brand
integrations.

Clean ArchitectureJetpack ComposeAndroid DevelopmentKotlinPerformance TuningData Structures+3

Ola

SDE 2

Jan 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

1. Consumer App Team
Successfully accomplished a key objective of integrating third party digital mobile wallets and added support for multiple payment instruments to the existing payments module to increase the volume of cashless transactions thereby increasing the GMV.
2. Ola Maps Team
Played a pivotal role in the development of the Ola Maps SDK providing an in-house map platform tailored to specific business needs which eliminated the entire cost associated with Google Maps, resulting in significant savings and increased control over mapping features.

Android DevelopmentPayment IntegrationSDK DevelopmentMapping TechnologiesProduct Development

Capgemini

Consultant

Dec 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

1. As part of the alpha team, I was closely involved in shipping features as per the product roadmap and responsible for stability and enhancement of the core features rolled out to various markets around the world.
2. Contributed extensively towards memory and performance tuning, rectifying underlying problems causing UI jank and improving the applications metrics to over 99 percent crash free sessions.
3. Devised a migration plan for development of existing core legacy feature modules in Kotlin, oversaw the development and progress thereby achieving over 30 percent target for the migration road map during my tenure.
4. Contributed towards successfully deploying a chat bot using Azure Bot Service’s QnA Maker which greatly reduced the time and cost involved in Tier I support and troubleshooting.

Performance TuningKotlinChatbot DevelopmentMigration PlanningSoftware ArchitectureProduct Development

Atos

Associate Consultant

Nov 2015 – Dec 2019 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

1. Contributed in the complete application development life-cycle from planning, requirement gathering, development, testing and launching on Google play store.
2. Single-handedly designed and developed modules to support client vendors in servicing their store networks and aiding agents in recovering existing customers outstanding payments.
3. Initiated the provisioning of Firebase In-App Messaging, Remote config & Azure Application Insights to increase customer engagement and get further insights and data visualization options into user data and events. This vastly helped the business teams to forecast the segments and offers which users are likely to prefer more.
4. Contributed to the development of a payment module with integration of the relatively new GPay SDK.
5. Developed an image classification module based on Tensorflow to identify products and brands and thereby push the most relevant offers to the users.

Application DevelopmentFirebasePayment IntegrationImage ClassificationSoftware DevelopmentProduct Development