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Senior Staff Android Engineer | Google Developer Expert | Kotlin Multiplatform & Jetpack Compose | Building TravvWorld (all-in-one travel app) & ComposeProof (AI dev tools, MCP) | 14 yrs, apps used by 100M+

About

Senior Staff Android Engineer. I lead mobile at Equal AI, where I built the app from zero and scaled it to 450K DAU in seven months. Before that, I led the Core Mobile Platform team at JioCinema, shipping KMP libraries to 100M+ users across Android, iOS, and Web. I've spent most of my career on the hard parts of mobile at scale — Compose stability improvements that moved crash rates by double digits, Global Search unifying 20+ services at Gojek, and architecture decisions that hold up under real production pressure. The work I care about most sits at the intersection of architecture, performance, and developer experience. Lately I've been thinking and writing about agentic systems on mobile — what changes when LLM-powered features stop being single-prompt wrappers and start behaving like coordinating agents inside an app. Mobile makes the hard problems harder: state, offline, fragmentation, battery. Most of the patterns we'll need are closer to offline-first distributed systems than to what's happening server-side. Nights and weekends, I build. TravvWorld (travv.world) is an all-in-one travel app — trip planning, visa rules, group expenses, and offline maps in one place instead of ten apps; the waitlist is open. ComposeProof (composeproof.dev) is an MCP server that lets AI coding agents render, diff, and verify the Compose UI they generate — 51 tools, zero build-file changes. Google Developer Expert for Android since 2021. Bengaluru-based, async-native, comfortable owning things end-to-end. Open to interesting conversations — especially mobile architecture at scale, KMP, agentic mobile patterns, or platform/SDK work.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

aistudio

anthropic apis

antigravity

claude code

claude

codex

Work experience

Senior Staff Android Engineer at Equal AI | Your AI Call Assistant, May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos, Own mobile technical direction for an AI-powered call-assistant startup. Built the entire Android app from zero to 450K DAU. • Set technical strategy: Defined the app architecture, tech stack, and engineering standards from scratch; drove build-vs-buy and platform decisions directly with founders. • Built from zero: Architected and developed the full Android app using Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow, Jetpack Compose, and MVVM with clean architecture principles. • Real-time AI features: Implemented WebSocket integration for live call transcription and AI assistance, handling network resilience across varied connectivity. • AI-native development: Drove adoption of agentic coding workflows and MCP-based tooling across the mobile codebase, raising delivery velocity and code consistency. • Device fragmentation: Solved dual-SIM detection across 50+ OEM models using undocumented telephony APIs, ensuring reliable call screening on devices with no official support. • Performance: Reduced APK size from 18MB to 9MB through dependency analysis, R8 optimization, and resource shrinking. • Raised the bar: Established code review, automated testing, and CI/CD practices; mentor a team of 3 engineers and set the quality standards they build against.

Co-founder (side project) at Travv World, Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos, Building Travv World (TravvWorld) — an all-in-one travel app that combines trip planning, day-by-day itineraries, visa and entry requirements, group expense splitting, travel budgets, offline maps, and destination guides in a single app, starting with Indian travellers. I lead engineering: Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform codebase, AI-assisted development workflows, and the travv.world website. Two-person team; my co-founder leads product. Waitlist and country guides at https://travv.world

Google Developer Expert for Android at Google Developer Experts, Sep 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 3 mos, India

Architect - Mobile/Clients (Kotlin Multiplatform) at Viacom18 Media Private Limited, May 2023 - May 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Greater Bengaluru Area, Spearheaded the design and development of scalable client SDKs using Kotlin Multiplatform for seamless integration across Android, iOS, and Web platforms. Provided architectural guidance and technical leadership for cross-functional teams, driving innovation in mobile solutions. Collaborated closely with stakeholders to ensure alignment between technical implementation and business objectives. Focused on performance optimization, platform consistency, and developer experience across multiple client applications.

Principal Engineer at Viacom18 (JioCinema), May 2023 - May 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Led the Core Mobile Platform team (3–5 engineers) for India’s largest streaming app, serving 100M+ users across Android, iOS, and Web. Set platform standards adopted by every feature team. • Compose at scale: Improved Jetpack Compose stability by 40% and reduced crash rates by 25% through systematic profiling and architecture improvements — holding through IPL, India’s largest live-streaming event with tens of millions of concurrent viewers. • KMP platform: Owned weekly releases of Kotlin Multiplatform shared libraries powering Android, iOS, and Web — a single source of truth adopted across all client teams. • Set standards: Built feature-gating systems and native UI components used across the entire app surface; led architecture reviews and defined the Compose adoption patterns feature teams built against.

Education

Telecommunication engg, Telecommunications Engineering, Sir M Visvesvarya Institute of Technology

Android nanodegree, Computer Software Engineering, Udacity

Public links

github: https://github.com/aldefy

aditlal.dev: https://aditlal.dev/