Apr 2024 – Oct 2024 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Jul 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Led two teams of 12 engineers in India and EU, in the development of the JioCinema Android app from scratch for the Indian Premier League 2023.
• Leading the redesign and resiliency initiatives for the Indian Premier League 2024. Managing the biggest pod in the Android team by proactively participating in design, coding, decision-making, and bringing operational experience.
• Utilized Agile methodology, ensuring timely deliveries and scalable solutions of over 200 user journeys and tasks. Guiding team in grooming, planning, execution, delivery, and retrospective.
• Built Jetpack Compose based server driven design system including writing API contract, architecting and coding the widget library for the JioCinema App.
• Led development and design of JioCinema Clips (short-form vertical videos feature).
• Worked as core developer and architect in designing and coding popular features such as multi-camera angles, Android WebView-JavaScript Bridge for engagement features, client-side offline-playback or downloads functionality, etc.
• Improved user-perceived ANR rate by over 100% and brought it to 50% below the industry standard and peer-group metrics.
• Introduced Clean Architecture, established release cadence and processes, and authored a large volume of technical documents.
• Actively engaged in platform wellbeing by educating and guiding engineering, tech, and product vertices across the company on mobile development.
• Conducted over 100 Android and System Design interviews.

May 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Architected and developed an analytics framework using the Facade design pattern with Segment, Braze, and Branch SDKs as subsystems.
• Introduced clean architecture principles via the In-Memory Room Database with custom Coroutine scope, unit, and instrumentation testing.
• Built deferred Deep Linking architecture and implemented deep link using Chain of Responsibility design pattern, Dagger Assisted Injection, etc.
• Enhanced customer engagement and met product key results via In-App Message implementation with image and GIF support using a custom Coil Image Loader.
• Worked in multiple teams across the product – Native Mobile App, User Insights and Customization, and Trading.
• Created interview material for future developers. One of the biggest contributors to the engineering feature docs.

Nov 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Build and maintain software and hardware solutions for event organizers and hospitals for a fast-paced globally-present event-tech startup.
• Divakars Hospital
• An end-to-end hospital management app with appointment scheduling, tele-consultation via video conferencing (via Agora SDK), electronic medical records, e-commerce (RazorPay SDK), social networking and medical info publication.
• Delegate Management Solution
• An offline event management solution to facilitate seamless registration, attendee check-in, badge and participation certificate printing, and statistics at large-scale-global-conferences. The app employs latest Android technologies including AndroidX, Material Components, Dagger 2, MVVM, ViewModel, LiveData, Room, Realm, PrintHand, BrotherPrintLibrary, PdfDocument, Canvas, etc.
• ChkdIn Scanner
• An access control and kit distribution app for events. Improved access record syncing under deteriorated network conditions in crowded conferences by breaking the payload into smaller parts and using targeted time-outs. ZXing barcode image processing library is used for access control tags.
• Zoltan Care Academia
• An offline scientific-paper distribution app for Zolten Care Academia. It is used by medical representatives to dispense scientific papers to doctors to help them keep up with the latest medical trends.
• Exhibitor Scanner
• An in-event exhibition stall scanner used by company representatives. I was involved in bug fixes, maintenance, and new feature additions.

Jun 2016 – Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Remote

• Help Android Nanodegree program students better understand the course material, resolve coding problems and navigate through the challenges of being an Android developer.
• Created 4900+ forum posts and achieved 3600+ upvotes as a mentor for Android developer, basics, and various scholarship forums. I conducted hundreds of hours of problem-solving video-sessions as a part of my one-on-one appointments.

Jan 2014 – Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Remote

• Developed, released, and maintained multiple in-house apps. Worked closely with local clients to establish problem specifications and develop the app.