About Me
Senior Android Engineer with 7+ years delivering high-scale apps in OTT, ed-tech, and finance. Led Jetpack Compose migrations, performance optimizations, and design system rollouts for products reaching 100M+ installs.
Work Experience
MeraBills (Peabody Soft)
June 2025 – Oct 2025Android Engineer III
- Partnered with PM/Design/Support to ship an end-to-end Training module (Views) → +10% onboarding interaction; worked with QA to burn down top crashers (−5%).
- Revamped in-app Help Center with searchable FAQs and embedded video tutorials using Android MediaPlayer.
Ground-Android (In Contract with Google)
June 2024 – December 2025Android Engineer III
- −20% app load time, responsiveness up via profiler-guided optimizations and render passes cleanup.
- Led legacy landscape support rollout; established compatibility guidelines across features.
- Drove XML→Compose migration (architecture, patterns, docs), improving maintainability/scalability.
Zee5 (100M+ Installs, rated 4.6*, OTT)
April 2022 – March 2024Android Engineer II
- Drove −25% APK size and startup performance improvements via asset audits, R8, and dependency cleanup.
- Lifted rating from ~4.0 to 4.5+ by fixing high-impact UX papercuts and tightening feedback loops.
- Shipped Compose Design System (Mobile + TV), improving UI consistency and delivery speed.
- Launched Zee Shorts (reels-like) → +40% time-in-app; partnered with backend/content ops.
- Instrumented analytics (Mixpanel/Appsflyer/Clevertap) and checkout fixes → +10% revenue.
- Shipped Zee Wallet (Compose + GraphQL), enabling cross-surface purchases (+10% customers).
Oppia Foundation (In Contract with Google)
May 2020 – April 2022Android Engineer I
- Introduced offline-first with coroutines/local cache → +20% usage time in low-connectivity regions.
- Owned shared UI/unit tests & CI/CD (GitHub Actions) for static analysis; improved reliability & dev speed.
- Mentored 20+ open-source contributors; Google Summer of Code mentor.
Doubtnut (1M+ Installs, rated 4.0*, Ed-Tech)
Aug 2018 – May 2019Android Developer
- Built App Sharing feature → +30% installs via easy peer-to-peer sharing.
- Developed Daily Quiz using Evernote Android Job & Instacart true-time → +20% daily active users.
- Enhanced the in-app chatting experience by integrating open graph tags, improving user engagement.
Projects
Android Engineers
January 2024 – PresentGrowing a global audience of 21k+ on LinkedIn, 3k+ Substack subscribers, and 1.5k+ on YouTube. Our mission is to bridge the gap between intermediate and expert-level Android engineering.
DailyMandir
March 2025 – PresentCurrently serving ~300+ DAU / ~850+ MAU with users in 44+ countries. The app has tracked over 900,000 chants and 20,000+ malas.
Technical Skills / Education
Languages and Frameworks
Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Kotlin Coroutines/Flow, Koin/Hilt/Dagger, Compose Multiplatform/KMP, Room, Paging 3, DataStore, WorkManager, Navigation, ExoPlayer, Retrofit/OkHttp, GraphQL, Firebase (Crashlytics/Remote Config/Analytics), A/B testing & Experiments, Accessibility, Android Studio Profiler, LeakCanary, Espresso/Compose UI Testing, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), R8/ProGuard, Gemini/ChatGPT integration, prompt design, on-device inference.
Techno India NJR Institute of Technology
Graduated May 2018Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology • Udaipur, Rajasthan
Community & Leadership
Communities
September 2015 – PresentCommunity Lead and Mentor
- Mentored 500+ students and 5+ local businesses globally (Pakistan, Italy, Kenya, South Africa, Turkey, US) through Google’s Applied CS Facilitator and Developer Student Club Lead programs.
- Speaker at 10+ Google Developer Groups events on Java, Kotlin, Android, and developer community growth.
- Google Summer of Code mentor — guided students in contributing to impactful open-source projects.
- Mentorship on Topmate — career guidance, resume reviews, and mock interviews for aspiring engineers.
- Built a global audience: ~20k LinkedIn, 1.5k YouTube, and author of Android Engineers Substack newsletter — publishing Android deep-dives, tutorials, and career insights.
- Koin Champion — driving adoption and community engagement for Koin DI in Android.
