Varun Gupta

IOS Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 11 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Designed and developed the Swiggy Consumer App.
  • Led the development of Swiggy UPI payment solution.
  • Enhanced app performance through optimization techniques.
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Skills

Core Skills

Android DevelopmentSoftware Development

Other Skills

API DevelopmentAlgorithmsAndroidArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business RequirementsCC (Programming Language)C++CSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)CommunicationCompetitive ProgrammingCore JavaCoroutinesDOCKER

About

Experienced Software Developer with 5 years of expertise in Android development, adept at adapting to new technologies and delivering high-quality mobile applications. Passionate about creating innovative, efficient solutions that align with industry best practices to drive business outcomes. A collaborative team player who works closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to define technical strategies and execute product roadmaps.

Experience

7 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Swiggy

3 roles

SDE 3

Promoted

Apr 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos

SDE 2

Promoted

Apr 2022Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • ◦ Skillfully designed, developed, and maintained the Swiggy Consumer App, aligning technical solutions with customer demands and addressing complex challenges.
  • ◦ Leveraged state-of-the-art Android technologies including MVVM architecture, Jetpack Compose, Dependency Injection (Dagger2), Coroutines, Retrofit for network calls(RESTful APIs), and monitoring tools such as Firebase and New Relic.
  • ◦ Currently part of the Swiggy Instamart team, leading the migration of screens from web to native Android. Previously worked on diverse projects across tech, checkout, and payment streams, implementing various third-party APIs and SDKs to enhance app features and functionality.
  • ◦ Led payment stream projects, including the Swiggy UPI, an in-house solution enabling seamless transactions in under 5 seconds, 3x faster than previous methods, with no redirections.
  • ◦ Played a pivotal role in the tech stream by initiating the migration of media assets platform, yielding substantial annual savings.
  • ◦ Enhanced asset aggregator(functionality to optimize load time of web pages) to download resources selectively based on available business lines per location. Experimenting with a less utilized business line led to annual savings of $12K.
  • ◦ Developed a secure and unified authentication and authorization mechanism across services, seamlessly transitioning to the standardized OIDC authentication protocol without disrupting existing workflows.
  • ◦ Enhanced UPI Intent payment experience, resulting in a increase in iOPD (Orders Per Day) of 1040.
  • ◦ Developed AutoPay Pay on Delivery feature, leading to a substantial increase in iOPD metrics of 4000.
  • ◦ Ventured into Backend Development, taking charge of crafting and developing an API to register Live
  • Activity tokens on iOS devices with minimal guidance.
  • ◦ Mentored team members and new hires, providing guidance for their professional growth.
  • ◦ Recipient of Most Valuable Player awards in recognition of exceptional contributions and achievements.
MVVM architectureJetpack ComposeDependency Injection (Dagger2)CoroutinesRetrofitFirebase+6

SDE 1

Jul 2020Mar 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • ◦ Migrated a segment of the native payment stack from Litho to Jetpack Compose, enhancing user experience.
  • ◦ Implemented optimization techniques, including the removal of unused resources and libraries, and lossy
  • compression of WebP images, achieving a 5-7% reduction in APK size.
  • ◦ Successfully integrated the In-App Review feature into the Swiggy Consumer Android app, boosting the Play
  • Store rating to 4.5 stars and increasing user reviews tenfold.
  • ◦ Collaborated with payment partners such as CRED, Paytm, Simpl, Amazon Pay, and Juspay, integrating a range of
  • payment options across multiple business lines.
Jetpack ComposeOptimization techniquesIn-App Review featurePayment partner integrationAndroid DevelopmentSoftware Development

International institute of information technology

2 roles

Teaching Assistant - Internals of Application server

Jan 2020May 2020 · 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Collaborated with the professor to develop assignments, quizzes, and exams for a course on distributed platforms for IoT and Edge AI applications, and addressed student inquiries.

Student Placement Coordinator

Jan 2019Dec 2019 · 11 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • The Student Placement Council is a body which connects top tier companies and students at IIIT, Hyderabad and is responsible for all arrangements during the placement season.

Swiggy

Intern

May 2019Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Developed the wearOS companion app for Swiggy from scratch. This app can be used to track and check the status of order and to perform corresponding actions based on the status.

Informatica

2 roles

Associate Software Engineer

Promoted

Nov 2017Jul 2018 · 8 mos

  • Coordinated with R&D and technical support teams to develop and debug products such as Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Data Quality, and AddressDoctor.

Graduate Engineering Trainee

Jul 2017Oct 2017 · 3 mos

Bookmecook

Web Developer

May 2016Jul 2016 · 2 mos · WORK FROM HOME

  • Learnt about designing and development of responsive websites.

Education

IIIT Hyderabad

Master of Technology - MTech — CSE

Jan 2018Jan 2020

BUNDELKHAND INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, JHANSI

Bachelor of Technology - BTech

Jan 2013Jan 2017

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