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Akshaya D.

Chief Engineer @ Samsung R&D | Ex. { Walmart (TGS), Zee5, Dominos (JFL), Novopay, 42Gears} | Android | AI | LLM | MCP | RAG | Kotlin | Java | MVVM | Clean Architecture | RxJava | Kiosk | Fintech

Bengaluru

10+ years of work experience

Samsung Electronics
Jul 20251 yr 3 mosPresent

India

Walmart Global Tech India
Jul 202411 moJun 2025

Bengaluru

• Led the development of scalable mobile solutions for Walmart's eCommerce platform, achieving over 100M+ downloads. • Enhanced the Android app by implementing features like product listing page changes and Generative AI-powered search. • Revamped landing pages in the Fashion CX verticals, improving user engagement and experience. • Payroll company- TGS (Teksystems)
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited
Aug 20221 yr 8 mosMar 2024

Bengaluru

• Provided technical leadership and architectural direction for ZEE5’s flagship Android platform, supporting millions of monthly active users at scale. • Led and mentored a team of seven Android engineers, driving engineering excellence through design reviews, code quality standards, and best practices. • Owned end-to-end Android platform architecture, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and long-term evolution of the codebase. • Managed the Google Play Store release lifecycle, including versioning strategies, staged rollouts, risk mitigation, and post-release monitoring for production stability. • Established and enforced robust CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, reducing release turnaround time by approximately 40% and improving overall developer velocity. • Drove significant performance and reliability improvements by introducing GraphQL-based data orchestration, reducing network latency and maintaining a 99.5% crash-free rate. • Championed testability and engineering rigor, increasing automated test coverage by 18% and strengthening regression protection across the platform. • Acted as a key cross-functional technical partner to product, design, and backend teams, influencing roadmap decisions and aligning technical strategy with business objectives. • Led platform-level initiatives including Android Auto integration, ensuring compliance, usability, and a consistent multi-surface user experience. • Played a critical role in architecting and delivering the ILT20 Cricket live streaming experience, enabling high-throughput, low-latency live sports consumption under peak traffic. • Drove innovation through internal hackathons, rapidly prototyping ideas and converting high-impact concepts into production-ready solutions.
Jubilant FoodWorks Ltd.
Apr 20211 yr 5 mosAug 2022

India

I was leading Product called Domino’s and Popeyes and revamped it from scratch
Novopay
Mar 20183 yrs 2 mosApr 2021

Bangalore

• Owned the architecture and delivery of 4 Android applications built from scratch for banking clients, defining standards around modularization, security, performance, and release engineering. • Designed and implemented a highly scalable multi-module Android core platform, where all product features reside as independent modules enabling rapid creation of new apps by simply bridging modules, and significantly reducing development and long-term maintenance effort. • Drove development of 12+ mission-critical features in the Retailer app, including eKYC onboarding, UPI payments, and compliance workflows, ensuring stability under high transaction throughput. • Architected and implemented an API response caching mechanism on the Android client, resulting in ~90% reduction in redundant network calls, improved app responsiveness, and increased resilience in low-connectivity scenarios. • Led Android–backend integration for India’s first fully paperless Vehicle Insurance issuance via mobile, in partnership with Tata AIG, enabling near real-time policy generation with zero physical documentation. • Designed end-to-end flows spanning Android, backend services, Kafka-based event processing, and third-party integrations, with emphasis on fault tolerance, idempotency, and observability. • Led and mentored a team of 9 Android engineers, maintaining and continuously improving code quality through architecture reviews, rigorous PR processes, and engineering best practices. • Actively contributed to team scaling and hiring, conducting 100+ technical interviews.
Oct 20161 y 4 moFeb 2018

Bangalore

Explara
Aug 20151 yAug 2016

Bangalore

GitHub
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Medium
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Akshaya’s AI Stack

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Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Science

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

PSIT Kanpur (Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology)

Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science

PSIT Kanpur (Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology)

20114 yrs2015

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Headline

Chief Engineer @ Samsung R&D | Ex. { Walmart (TGS), Zee5, Dominos (JFL), Novopay, 42Gears} | Android | AI | LLM | MCP | RAG | Kotlin | Java | MVVM | Clean Architecture | RxJava | Kiosk | Fintech

About

• Exploring and Learning AI/ML, RAG, MCP, etc • Enthusiastic Android Professional with 10 Year’s experience in Android Application Development using Java and Kotlin • Worked on 20+ native Android Applications. • Design Application Architecture. •Good experience in Fintech, E-commerce, MDM, AFW, Enterprise etc. •Created aar(Android archive) , SDK for multiple features from scratch. • Coordination with QA team, debugging & bug fixing. • Good understanding of design patterns and many other open source frameworks. -Android app optimisation expert. - Clean code enthusiast, I deeply care about code quality - Believer in TDD and testing all the things - Keen advocate of great user experiences and beautiful UIs - Detail oriented - Team player while can work independently just as well - Love learning new things and sharing my experience with others Specialties: Android Application Developer With Key Skills: Android, Java, Kotlin, Jetpack, MVVM, Clean Architecture, MVP, RX Java, Coroutines, Retrofit, Dagger2, Dagger Hilt, Data binding, Samsung Knox, Rooted, GPS, Camera, Music, Video, IPC, Services, Broadcast Receiver, Aidl, JUnit testing (Mockito ,Roboelectric), REST JSON/XML API , SQLite, Realm, , Android Studio,Eclipse, PackageManager, ActivityManger, DeviceManger, AFW,Rooted, Signature. Google: FCM/GCM,Analytics, Maps, MDM, OCR AFW(Android for work), Publishing Apps to PlayStore.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

claude

codex

cursor

ollama

openai

Work experience

Chief Engineer at Samsung Electronics, Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos, India

Technical Lead at Walmart Global Tech India, Jul 2024 - Jun 2025 · 11 mo, Bengaluru, • Led the development of scalable mobile solutions for Walmart's eCommerce platform, achieving over 100M+ downloads. • Enhanced the Android app by implementing features like product listing page changes and Generative AI-powered search. • Revamped landing pages in the Fashion CX verticals, improving user engagement and experience. • Payroll company- TGS (Teksystems)

Technical Lead at Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited, Aug 2022 - Mar 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, • Provided technical leadership and architectural direction for ZEE5’s flagship Android platform, supporting millions of monthly active users at scale. • Led and mentored a team of seven Android engineers, driving engineering excellence through design reviews, code quality standards, and best practices. • Owned end-to-end Android platform architecture, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and long-term evolution of the codebase. • Managed the Google Play Store release lifecycle, including versioning strategies, staged rollouts, risk mitigation, and post-release monitoring for production stability. • Established and enforced robust CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, reducing release turnaround time by approximately 40% and improving overall developer velocity. • Drove significant performance and reliability improvements by introducing GraphQL-based data orchestration, reducing network latency and maintaining a 99.5% crash-free rate. • Championed testability and engineering rigor, increasing automated test coverage by 18% and strengthening regression protection across the platform. • Acted as a key cross-functional technical partner to product, design, and backend teams, influencing roadmap decisions and aligning technical strategy with business objectives. • Led platform-level initiatives including Android Auto integration, ensuring compliance, usability, and a consistent multi-surface user experience. • Played a critical role in architecting and delivering the ILT20 Cricket live streaming experience, enabling high-throughput, low-latency live sports consumption under peak traffic. • Drove innovation through internal hackathons, rapidly prototyping ideas and converting high-impact concepts into production-ready solutions.

Senior Software Engineer at Jubilant FoodWorks Ltd., Apr 2021 - Aug 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos, India, I was leading Product called Domino’s and Popeyes and revamped it from scratch

Senior Software Engineer at Novopay, Mar 2018 - Apr 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Bangalore, • Owned the architecture and delivery of 4 Android applications built from scratch for banking clients, defining standards around modularization, security, performance, and release engineering. • Designed and implemented a highly scalable multi-module Android core platform, where all product features reside as independent modules enabling rapid creation of new apps by simply bridging modules, and significantly reducing development and long-term maintenance effort. • Drove development of 12+ mission-critical features in the Retailer app, including eKYC onboarding, UPI payments, and compliance workflows, ensuring stability under high transaction throughput. • Architected and implemented an API response caching mechanism on the Android client, resulting in ~90% reduction in redundant network calls, improved app responsiveness, and increased resilience in low-connectivity scenarios. • Led Android–backend integration for India’s first fully paperless Vehicle Insurance issuance via mobile, in partnership with Tata AIG, enabling near real-time policy generation with zero physical documentation. • Designed end-to-end flows spanning Android, backend services, Kafka-based event processing, and third-party integrations, with emphasis on fault tolerance, idempotency, and observability. • Led and mentored a team of 9 Android engineers, maintaining and continuously improving code quality through architecture reviews, rigorous PR processes, and engineering best practices. • Actively contributed to team scaling and hiring, conducting 100+ technical interviews.

Senior Software Engineer at 42 Gears Mobility System, Oct 2016 - Feb 2018 · 1 y 4 mo, Bangalore

Software Engineer at Explara, Aug 2015 - Aug 2016 · 1 y, Bangalore

Education

Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Science, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, PSIT Kanpur (Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology)

Public links

github: https://github.com/droiddikshit

medium: https://medium.com/@droiddikshit