Headline

Engineering Manager | AI Driven Platforms | Mobile Architect | Dream11 | Android | React Native | Platform Engineering | Scaling Apps for Millions of Users

About

Mobile Architect with 10+ years of Android and platform engineering experience, specializing in building scalable and high-performance mobile platforms and developer tooling for the Dream11 app serving 250M+ users, 50M DAU, heavily used on Tier 3/4 devices & low-bandwidth networks. I enjoy solving complex engineering challenges across mobile architecture, performance optimization — such as reducing app startup time by 51% (from ~7s to ~3.4s) and APK size by 19%(from ~78MB to ~63MB). My work spans Android, React Native, Server-Driven UI, and developer tooling, with a strong focus on improving engineering velocity, application quality, and user experience at scale. Platforms I've Built • Server-Driven UI: Designed and built a platform enabling instant screen updates, runtime UI customization(e.g., styling changes) for personalization and A/B experimentation — reducing feature deployment time from weeks to hours and cutting dependency on app release cycles. • In-App Nudging Platform: Built an in-house platform powering contextual nudges such as tooltips, bottom sheets, and coach marks to drive feature discovery, user onboarding, and feature adoption — without engineering dependency or app releases. • Performance Optimizations & Benchmarking Frameworks: Built automated benchmarking frameworks for Android and React Native, catching component performance, startup time metrics, APK size regressions directly in CI/CD pipelines before production. Specialties Mobile Architecture, Android Development, Mobile Platform Engineering, Performance Optimization, Server-Driven UI, React Native, Developer Tooling, Technical Leadership. What I Focus On • Mobile Architecture & Platform Engineering • Performance, Reliability & Startup Optimization • Engineering Excellence, CI/CD & Observability • Technical Leadership & Developer Productivity Technologies & Tools Kotlin, Java, Android SDK, Jetpack Compose, Jetpack Navigation, Room Database, Coroutines, StateFlow / SharedFlow, MVVM, Clean Architecture, MVI, Server-Driven UI, Retrofit, OkHttp, GraphQL, REST APIs, Firebase, Dagger/Hilt, Gradle, CI/CD, Fastlane, Unit/UI Testing, ProGuard / R8, Performance Profiling,Perfetto, LeakCanary, Macrobenchmark, Ktlint, Observability, Startup Optimization, Crash & ANR Analysis, Remote Config, Analytics, React Native, Metro, Hermes, Flipper, CodePush, Typescript. AI & LLM Anthropic API (Claude Sonnet, Haiku), OpenAI API, Cursor, Prompt Engineering, GitHub Actions AI Pipelines, ML Kit, TensorFlow Lite, Gemini Nano (Android).

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

cursor

mcp

midjourney

ollama

openai

opencode

Work experience

Engineering Manager at Dream11, Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, • Led and mentored a team of 6–10 engineers in developing mobile platforms and tooling initiatives. • Owned platform strategy, technical roadmap, and architecture governance aligned with business objectives. • Drove the creation of a reusable platform, reducing duplicated efforts and standardizing mobile feature development mentioned below. • Server-Driven UI Platform: Enabled instant screen updates and runtime UI customisation for personalisation and A/B experimentation, reducing feature deployment time from weeks to hours and eliminating dependency on app release cycles. • In-App Nudging Platform: Empowered Product Marketing team to independently deploy 100+ nudges across all screens without app releases or engineering involvement.

Software Developer-3 at Dream11, Jul 2022 - Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, • Developed automated performance benchmarking frameworks for Android and React Native applications. • Integrated these frameworks into Dream11's CI/CD pipelines to enhance release quality. • Monitored key metrics such as startup time, component rendering time, and APK size at the PR stage. • Contributed to improving performance reliability prior to production deployment.

Software Developer -2 at Dream11, Mar 2019 - Jul 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Mumbai Metropolitan Region, • Architected and rebuilt core high-traffic screens including Payment, Scorecard, Contest and Home screens improving scalability, maintainability, and long-term extensibility of key user journeys in Dream11 mobile app. • Improved UI overdraw by reducing view hierarchy and increased test coverage from <10% to 90% on rewritten screens during rewrite initiatives to enhance release stability and code testability.

Android Developer at Buyhatke, Aug 2016 - Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Developed customer-facing features such as Tatkal booking, flight comparison, and wishlist synchronization to enhance user experience. • Integrated Firebase, Google, Facebook, and Truecaller SDKs for seamless login and verification processes. • Created the BuyHatke SDK, enabling price comparison and coupon discovery, successfully adopted by two third-party apps.

Android Developer at ZipGo, Nov 2015 - Jul 2016 · 9 mos, Bangalore, • Developed and introduced new features in the customer Android app to enhance user experience. • Optimized and maintained legacy code, ensuring smooth functionality and performance. • Implemented SQLite database optimizations for efficient route and stop management. • Established an SMS-based offline communication channel for drivers, ensuring timely updates without internet connectivity.

Trainee Android Develpoer at TheAppGuruz, Jul 2014 - Jan 2015 · 7 mos, Greater Rajkot Area

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engg, Computer Engineering, Gujarat Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, GTU