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title: "Akshaya D. - Chief Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet 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 based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes antigravity, claude, and codex. Explore public wo..."
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# Akshaya D\. on Tal

## 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

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