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Engineering Leader @ Walmart Global Tech India, PayPal | Mobile Architecture, Mentorship

About

I am a mobile engineering leader with over 13 years of experience in architecting and delivering high-scale consumer applications at companies like PayPal and Walmart. My expertise lies in building modular, performant mobile platforms and leading high-performing, distributed teams. I combine deep technical proficiency in native iOS and Android development with a modern focus on integrating agentic AI into the SDLC to drive engineering efficiency. I am passionate about mentoring engineers, fostering team ownership, and building robust, crash-free mobile experiences that serve millions of users.

Location

Bengaluru, Karnataka

AI stack

claude code

claude

cursor

gemini

githubcopilot

Work experience

Engineering leader at Walmart Global Tech India, Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Built and led the Walmart Seller mobile team across iOS (Swift, SwiftUI) and Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose), owning both technical direction and people leadership. • Drove mobile architecture across both platforms — modular Swift Package Manager structure on iOS, Gradle multi-module on Android, shared platform standards • Delivered 99.9% crash-free sessions at launch through a reliability framework (crash monitoring, incident runbooks, SLA-based release gates) • Cut MTTR by 40% and reduced mobile-surfaced API failures to ~2% through unified observability (structured logs, traces, Grafana dashboards) • Reduced average merge time to 1 day via CI/CD overhaul (Fastlane, GitHub Actions, trunk-based development) • Used feature flags and phased rollouts with rollback criteria tied to crash and error-rate thresholds • Partnered daily with product, design, and backend teams; mentored engineers through promotion cycles

Staff Engineer at PayPal, Feb 2022 - Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Led the multi-year modernization of PayPal's iOS platform serving 200M+ global users — decomposed legacy monolith into modular, independently deployable frameworks (networking, analytics, account flows, feature flags). • Cut code duplication by 40% across 6+ teams through reusable mobile platforms • Drove global crash rate below 0.1% via instrumentation, incident reviews, and tight QA/backend collaboration • Improved CI and build performance by 50%+ through build graph analysis, caching, and dependency cleanup • Mentored a distributed team of 6 engineers — raised architectural rigor and design documentation quality • Optimized consumer app performance — reduced app size by 20%, built QR Code payment module, cut content size by 70% via content service module Skills: iOS, Swift, Mobile Architecture, Performance Optimization, Mentorship

Software Development Engineer 3 at PayPal, May 2019 - Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bangalore, • Be involved in all phases of the software development lifecycle including requirements analysis, design, coding, testing and deployment

Senior Software Engineer at Swoo, Dec 2017 - Mar 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, SWOO is a live video broadcasting platform that provides artists, influencers and experts a more engaging & rewarding experience with their audience. Achievements/Tasks - Designed, Architectured and Implemented Swoo Bingo, Trivia, Candy and Swooperstar games - Developed Chat Module allowing users to interact with the broadcasters - Improved Broadcast onboarding experience by creating a new broadcast flow which improved the broadcast creation rate - Developed Map feature to improve discoverability of broadcasts available in a region

Senior Software Engineer at redBus, Mar 2017 - Dec 2017 · 10 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, redBus is the world's largest online bus ticket booking platform and I was Working with redBus Business to Consumer App. Achievements/Tasks - Design and Architecture the app with swift language Integrated Hotels from scratch - Revamped push notification flow and deep link flow allowing the user to directly land on the particular screen - Handled Payment Flow, Refer & Earn Flow - Implemented Bus Tracking Feature which allows the user to track the bus in real time

Software Engineer at redBus, May 2015 - Mar 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, worked on redbus B2C app for booking bus tickets

Mobile Application Developer at Cognizant, Feb 2014 - Apr 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, - Worked on various client application dealing with mobility and healthcare - Plan, analyze, and design the requirements - Handling requisite documents for the project like Unit test case document etc

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Panjab university