- A venture-funded startup, backed by One97 Mobility funds.
- Built the first version of input drivers for Android OS using TCP.
- Implemented Push based VNC for Android OS which later was converted into entirely independent protocol for highly efficient media streaming over slow networks. (Combination of http polling + websockets)
- Built the Netty(Java) based routing server for streaming remote Android screens and events to and fro between JS, Android, flash clients and Remotely running Android system.
- Built Android app, Android SDK, Flash client and JS client for AppSurfer
- Built Golang based web app for #InstantApps

CTO and CoFounder

Viwr aims at bridging the gaps in the current android app development ecosystem.

Gaps in the current Ecosystem
1. Emulator sucks. Even if they are x86 emulators, they can't emulate the actual device experience. And using the device as a dev tool becomes difficult at times. Viwr helps Android developers to use their device as an emulator.
2. Using different Android SDK tools is super complicated. For example, fetching battery report requires a docker installation, a couple of command-line executions, dumping the report, then importing it into the docker installation (Refer: https://developer.android.com/st...).
3. Developers have to go through a lot of complicated configurations for simulating external factors like location, battery, network, etc.
4. There is no one single report that we can look at to measure the performance of an Android app.

The core mission of Viwr is
1. Help developers to use their Android devices as a complete App Development tool.
2. Give an all in one solution

Viwr : Build Better Android Apps

- Leading technical teams working on Backend Engineering, Mobile SDKs, Data Pipelines, Analytics and DevOps
- Architecting and building Backend systems with Event Sourcing pattern 
- Infrastructure management on Google Cloud Platform using Kubernetes and Terraform.
- Building backend infrastructure for RTB, Auctioning, Predictive Bidding, Optimized targeting. We follow 200ms response time limits in the RTB server
- Building high throughput, real-time data pipelines for data flow inside backend system using  Cassandra, Kafka, DGraph, Druid, InfluxDB.
- Architecting Mobile (iOS/Android) SDKs for size and resource consumption optimization

Tech Lead (EM)

Additional Responsibilities

- Leading a bunch of mobile products and R&D projects in the Security and Consumers domain.

Senior Engineering Manager

- Built Android SDK and Android App for Simpl
- Built Go microservices supporting high loads (~50k/sec) using Redis, Postgres.
- Managing Android SDK integrations for merchants.
- Maintaining code hygienes for Go microservices and Android codebase.
       - Built Simpl Android app single handedly (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simpl.android)
        - 500,000+ downloads with 4.6 stars (> 22k ratings at the time of update).
        - 99.99% of the users are always crash free as reported by Fabric. (33k MAU)

Technology Consultant (Android & Go)

Links to my open source projects
- YAAG (Yet Another API doc Generator) for Golang : https://github.com/betacraft/yaag
- Autobinding fieldMap generator: https://github.com/betacraft/autobindings
- Scraper: https://github.com/betacraft/scraper
- Slack client for Golang: https://github.com/betacraft/slack
- Circle CI client for Golang: https://github.com/betacraft/circleci
- Parse SDK for Golang: https://github.com/betacraft/parse-sdk
- Transported: https://github.com/RainingClouds/transporter
- AFNetworkingHelper: https://github.com/RainingClouds/AFNetworkingHelper
- HatcHttp: https://github.com/RainingClouds/hatchttp
- Android GCM Helper: https://github.com/RainingClouds/android-gcm-helper
- OmniDesk: https://github.com/akshaydeo/omnidesk

Open Source Developer

- Contributed to the Slack's newest Calls Platform.
- Led all-new App Actions Framework (Shortcuts) on the technical front, Released in March 2020 (https://medium.com/slack-developer-blog/introducing-new-ways-to-interact-with-apps-d66e160b8ae)
- Led an end to end testing framework for Slack client apps. This framework runs end to end automation test against android, iOS, web, and desktop apps. One test suite for all platforms.
- Was a speaker for Slack DevRel India tour 2019

Staff Engineer

C,C++,ADBMS,Java, Advanced Java, Struts, .Net framework, C#, T-SQL, Microsft BIDS developement, Object Oriented Analysis and Development.

Trainee

Droidcast is aimed at removing all the hassle Android users face while sharing their screen live on the internet. One-click and you are ready to share your Android screencast with anyone in this world.

SDK:
- Droidcast SDK (not yet released) is a way to remotely debug any Android app remotely.
- Almost a single line of code, triggers logcat streaming over the internet, which can help developers to figure out bugs easily during alpha and beta testing in controlled environment.

Current solutions:
Step 1. Install and configure Android development tools (like ADB) on your computer.
Step 2. Use USB cables to connect the phone with your computer
Step 3. Use screen mirroring software like scrcpy. 
Step 4: Use screen share on the computer :-)

Droidcast:
Step 1: Click on the "Start Screen Sharing"

Droidcast : A simple screen sharing application for Android

Acqui-hired by Media.Net

We’re a global software consultancy solving complex problems with technology. We connect strategy and execution, helping our clients to strengthen their core technology, scale with flexibility, and create seamless digital experiences. Our clientele includes Intel, BigBinary, Simpl.

CTO and Co-founder

With Twist, you can seamlessly play all your mobile games on TV in high definition. 
Enjoy online and offline Media from your Phone, Laptop, and Tablet on TV.

CTO and Co-Founder

Adaptiv Risk Cube
A new product was introduced in 2008 that offered Business Intelligence for market risk products like Adaptiv 360 and Adaptiv Analytics. A small development team based in Cambridge and London had started initial work on it and I joined that team in Dec 2010. I have – since then – worked on number of showstopper issues , programming, testing, documentation, staging database design and multidimensional database design.

Associate Software Engineer

I was one of the 20 people who got selected for Thoughtworks OOP bootcamp where we were introduced to various OOP concepts with real life examples. The programming language was JAVA and development strategy was Test Driven Development.

Intern

Architecture of Staging database and Cube components, Performance Tuning for data pushing and analysis, MDX Scripting, API development in C#.net

Product Engineer (Adaptiv RiskCube)

We are a super early stage angel fund, investing in Indian startups focussed on technology for global markets.

Portfolio
1. Peerlist (https://peerlist.io)

Co-Founder & Partner

Maxim AI is a unified testing and monitoring framework for AI-powered applications. Maxim's end-to-end evaluation stack streamlines the entire lifecycle of AI applications, right from prompt engineering (development, iteration, and versioning) to pre-release testing for quality and functionality, test-set creation and management, and post-release monitoring. Our goal is to help development teams ship high quality AI products, faster.

Co-Founder & CTO

Building Tools: https://www.postman.com/product/tools/

Impact
1. We shipped entirely in-house built reporting infrastructure removing externally paid infrastructure, bringing more flexibility and performance, reducing the infra cost by 95%.
2. We shipped schema documentation support in our API builder. The missing piece in our consumer product offering. 
3. We shipped a new monitoring type, called uptime monitors. A simpler version of the monitoring product to check the uptime of an endpoint.
4. We shipped the WYSIWYG editor with the support of drag and drop image hosting. 98% of the editor users have switched to this new editor from the old markdown editor.
5. Helped to ship our most ambitious release, v10, with 
            5.1. Multifile schema editor support
            5.2. First class schema documentation for Open API 3.0 schema type
            5.3. Modern governance workflows around collection documentation

Product
1. Work with PMs to ensure we are making incremental progress

Head of Product Engineering (Tools Unit)

<p>Building Tools: API Design, Mock, Documentation and Monitoring.</p>

Head of Product & Engineering (Tools Unit)

CTO and Co-founder @ Maxim AI

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