Teaching under-priviledged students who have no access to formal education.

Primary School Teacher

Bachelor's Degree

High School

Helped build the tech team from scratch, including hiring the lead engineers on mobile and backend teams. Responsible for giving general technical guidance on the architecture of payment and social graph systems and started off the mobile development efforts. Sounding board to founders for product ideas.

Tech Advisor

Matrimonial services for FAANG and other top tech company employees. Acquired by Scaler (InterviewBit Pvt Ltd.)

Founder

Lead the Android team based out of India GDC of Target. 
Worked on migrating FAQ and Knowledgebase system to native deeplinked pages from embedded webview based system. 
Moved post-purchase support flow from Salesforce SDK to in-house chatbot driven platform.

Lead Engineer, Android

- Stepped down from executive role at Coding Blocks to focus on community aspects
- Grew YouTube channel to 100K+ subscribers 
- Created 10k+ community over Discord, Telegram

YouTube & Community

- Reached $1.5M ARR in a completely bootstrapped company 
- Survived COVID with 0 layoffs, 0 salary cuts (except founding team) 
- Expanded online offerings to Lite + Premium + Live structure, expanding paid subscribers by 3x

Co-Founder and CTO

- Responsible for releases and leading the team working on Zomato's flagship app
- Oversaw the period we went from 600k to 4M+ DAUs and reached the 100M downloads milestone
- Handled the seamless migration of Uber Eats India users to Zomato on the mobile app side

Engineering Head, Consumer App

Heading the Mobile Platform team at Zomato that ensures the highest engineering and performance standards are maintained on the mobile app, CI/CD pipelines are consistently working and building reusable toolkits and components that are used by every other mobile product team across the company.

- May 2019: Reduced the Android build/test pipeline time by 95%
- August 2019: Android app size reduced by 10mb

Engineering Lead, Mobile Platform Team

> Mentor undergrads students who are developing skills in Android and NodeJS. (mentored over 1500+ students till now)
> Design coursework and development programmes for Android, Web Development, Game Development courses.
> Develop online courses on aforementioned technologies

Mentor & Co-Founder

> Overlooking the Products and Technology vertical
> Build and Launch our e-learning Android App - https://cb.lk/olapp 
> Launch https://online.codingblocks.com - our online course portal
> Manage https://boss.codingblocks.com - BOSS our Open Source outreach programme for students

Founding Member, Products

Worked on the OpenEvent project (eventyay.com) on the webapp and android app generators

Google Summer of Code Intern

- Open Source Partner and Consultant
- Helped set up 'Project Highway' - AOSP Source Code management and distribution system.
- Created Continuous Integration system for community based Android OS builds
- Created community resources - code review, build server, forums.

Open Source Developer

A hyperlocal superaggregator, Greplr could aggregate all cab services, all restaurant (order/book) providers, air and bus ticketing services. 
Greplr could also compare prices between ecommerce websites like Flipkart, Amazon and Snapdeal. 

The startup was shut down and the core technology was sold off, and in a modified form used by Micromax in their 'Around YU' product.

Founder and CEO

Google Summer of Code Student Participant

- Engagement with Android developer community in India
- Creating Developer Relations and support framework via forums and github resources for developers
- Analysing community feedback for the brand
- Workshops, hackathons, conferences and other events to teach/involve Indian Android community into platform development
- Crowdsourcing platform development of Android OS

Developer Relations and Community Manager

- Compiling Android from source for Sony Xperia phones. Includes rewriting or reverse engineering device specific drivers for the smartphones.

- Enhancing core Android OS experience by adding features in lower levels of the OS stack

Device Maintainer (Sony Xperia)

- Developing smart user interaction interfaces in Android
 - Customizing core Android components like lockscreen, notification bar
 - Enhancing core Android apps (Mms, Camera, Contacts etc)
 - Integration of ad-hoc apps into Android core platform
 - Unit Testing, Compatibility Testing of Android builds
 - Building Android OS and maintaining Continuous Integration systems for Android building

Android Framework Engineer

-  Porting latest Android source to older unsupported Android phones

- Custom linux kernels with added functionality

- Improvements over device drivers, enabling additional hardware functionality

RECEX was an (unsuccessful) startup venture to develop web and mobile solutions specifically targetted at the college going audience.

Co-Founder & CTO

Product Management

Marketing

Content

Teaching

Business Development

Product & Strategy

Director, Engineering

Looking at Product and Strategy at Scaler (InterviewBit). Ex Lead Android dev at Target and Zomato. 2x founder.

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