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title: "Bhargav Akbari - Engineering Manager in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Bhargav Akbari, Engineering Manager | AI Driven Platforms | Mobile Architect | Dream11 | Android | React Native | Platform Engineering | Scaling Apps for Millions of Users based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes cursor, mcp, and midjourney."
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# Bhargav Akbari on Tal

## 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

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