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Work Experience

• Senior Android Developer, Battery Smart

  Jul, 2024 - Present

  Leading Android development for India's largest EV battery-swapping network across Driver, Partner, and Internal apps, delivering 100M+ swaps through optimized flows while driving major performance, stability, and CI/CD improvements.

  • Architected new swap flow processing 9.9M+ swaps (~₹1Cr), integrated payment gateway, and built Smart Balance recharge system driving ₹50L+ subscriptions

  • Implemented Face Authentication across all 3 apps for swap and purchase flows, NFC device integration, and Live Auto QR mapping for seamless station operations

  • Built Driver Penalty Collection (₹1.96Cr+ collected), Partner Contracts visibility, Referral flow, and recovered 157 batteries via edited swap feature (1.86%)

  • Developed Server-Driven UI, Swap Pass/Coupons, Monetization module, Daily Attendance via FaceAuth, and regional translations for 30+ cities

  • Improved crash-free rate from 97.84% to 99.98% and reduced ANRs from 6,000 to 300 across all 3 apps in the ecosystem

  • Led Android 15→16 migration with UDF pattern refactoring, reducing cold start from 10s to 1.2s (88%) and hot start from 6s to 400ms (93%)

  • Optimized Jenkins CI/CD: Partner release 20min→8min (60%), debug 14min→4min with 10-20s incremental; Driver 12min→4min (67%); Internal 22min→6min (73%)

  • Spearheaded Sparrow device and Smart Station integrations, CIM module, Camera/Media playback, and WebEngage analytics implementation across platform

• Software Engineer SDE 2 (Android), PW (PhysicsWallah)

  Feb, 2023 - Feb, 20241 year

  Led Android development for one of India's largest EdTech platforms, driving significant improvements in app quality, user experience, and developer efficiency.

  • Developed rating prompt feature that increased Play Store rating from 4.2 to 4.67 across 20M+ downloads and 2M+ DAUs

  • Redesigned ticket creation flow, achieving 90% reduction in student support tickets and significantly lowering operational costs

  • Built new dashboard system using MVI architecture and Jetpack Compose for real-time ticket tracking

  • Maintained 99.67% crash-free rate through proactive bug fixes and robust error handling

  • Integrated Exoplayer wrapper with Compose views, enabling rapid development for K8 (kids module) with consistent video playback

  • Collaborated with team leads to optimize Android build pipeline, reducing build time from 8 minutes to 4 minutes (50% improvement)

  • Took end-to-end ownership of multiple features from design to deployment, coordinating with Product, QA, and Backend teams

• Sr Android Developer, Bobble AI

  Feb, 2022 - Nov, 20229 months

  Designed and implemented engaging features for Bobble Indic, a multilingual keyboard app serving 10M+ users with AI-powered typing assistance.

  • Enhanced keyboard with smart suggestion bar (similar to GBoard), delivering 3 instant word predictions for faster and more intuitive typing

  • Designed engaging features for Bobble Indic multilingual keyboard, improving user retention across 10M+ user base

  • Boosted crash-free rate from baseline to 99.3%, ensuring smoother experience for millions of daily users

  • Optimized keyboard performance for low-end devices, reducing memory footprint and improving responsiveness

  • Implemented reusable UI components and established coding guidelines for keyboard module

  • Collaborated with ML team to integrate AI-powered suggestions seamlessly into keyboard experience

• Android Developer (Contract), Futuryze Digital

  Feb, 2021 - Aug, 20216 months

  Built an audio social app from ground up as part of a lean 4-person team, scaling rapidly to 500K+ downloads.

  • Collaborated with 4-person team to build audio social app that scaled from 0 to 500K+ downloads and 20K+ daily active users

  • Designed personal chat room feature enabling private conversations, improving user engagement and app extensibility

  • Implemented Clean MVVM architecture with Coroutines, Koin, and DataBinding for maintainable codebase

  • Integrated Apxor for user analytics and behavior tracking to drive product decisions

  • Established project structure and architecture patterns adopted by the entire development team

  • Worked closely with product team to translate requirements into technical specifications and deliver features on schedule

• Android Developer, Yobis International Private Limited

  Dec, 2019 - Feb, 20222 years 2 months

  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to build and enhance a lighting products catalog and ordering application, enabling product customization based on client requirements.

  • Implemented digital ordering workflows that drove a ~20% increase in revenue compared to offline sales channels.

  • Developed a portfolio and showcase website for internal teams to present solutions and manage engagements across multiple clients.

  • Contributed to scaling order management systems and supporting infrastructure decisions to handle growing business demand.

  • Acted as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring scalable, reliable, and client-aligned solutions.

• Jr Android Developer, MagTapp Technologies

  Aug, 2019 - Nov, 20193 months

  Contributed to core technology team building MagTapp browser app that reached 1M+ users.

  • Contributed to app development as part of core technology team, helping reach 1M+ user milestone

  • Implemented features following team coding standards and Android development best practices

  • Participated in code reviews and adopted team workflows for efficient collaboration

• Trainee Android Developer, Posh Studio

  May, 2018 - Jun, 20191 year 1 month

  Started Android development career with hands-on experience building client applications.

  • Researched and developed offline inventory management app for client, resulting in measurable productivity improvements

  • Built user-friendly interface with offline-first architecture for reliable performance

  • Learned Android development fundamentals including lifecycle management, data persistence, and UI design

Projects Experience

• Covid19-Notifier-IN, Personal Project

  Feb, 2020 - Present

  Android app providing hourly COVID-19 case notifications for India with beautiful Material Design UI.

  • Built with Material Components, Kotlin, and Android Architecture Components

  • Implemented Kotlin Coroutines Flow for efficient async data handling

  • Used PeriodicWorkManager for reliable background notifications

  • Open-source project demonstrating modern Android development practices

• RedditLoader, Personal Project

  Jun, 2020 - Present

  Reddit image loader with custom-built image loading library and multi-module architecture.

  • Developed custom ImageLoader library for asynchronous image loading with memory and disk caching

  • Implemented multi-module project structure for improved build times and code organization

  • Integrated Reddit API to fetch and display images from r/images

  • Built with MVVM architecture using LiveData and ViewModel for reactive UI updates

  • Showcases clean architecture principles and separation of concerns

• NASA Pictures App, Personal Project

  May, 2020 - Present

  NASA image gallery app demonstrating MVVM pattern with local JSON parsing and testing.

  • Built with MVVM architecture pattern for clean separation of concerns

  • Implemented JSON parsing using Moshi library for efficient data handling

  • Created image gallery with ViewPager2 for smooth navigation between NASA images

  • Integrated Glide for optimized image loading and caching

  • Used buildSrc with Kotlin DSL for centralized dependency management with autocomplete

  • Wrote unit tests using MockK for repository and ViewModel layers

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