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title: "Farhan Rasheed - Engineering in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Farhan Rasheed on Tal

## Headline

Mobile First

## About

Developing an understanding on what is driving the mobile revolution in India

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

Qwen

## Work experience

Engineering at Scapia, Feb 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Engineering Manager at Swiggy, Oct 2023 \- Jan 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Engineering Manager at Swiggy, Oct 2021 \- Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Leading and Managing the Consumer Android App Creating an environment for innovation and learning\. Leading a team of 15 developers committed to provide the consumer unhindered convenience of ordering food and groceries from the comfort of their home\. Working on the latest and greatest media codecs to provide a fast and efficient experience to users Improving performance of a hybrid mobile app with a mixed stack of native, web and react native

Software Development Engineer 3 at Swiggy, Apr 2020 \- Sep 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Leading the consumer application team\. Working on increasing efficiency in terms of time spent on development and mentoring young developers to work on android apps used by millions of users every day ● Working on dynamic user journeys based on real\-time user actions ● Worked on integration of IoT devices in new\-age supply chains being built at Swiggy ● Worked on streamlining code reviews by developing bots and using various developer APIs

Specialist Software Development Engineer at Hike Messenger, Jul 2017 \- Jun 2018 · 1 yr, Bangalore, Member of the client infrastructure team\. Designing scalable client feature set was the primary objective of the team ● Developed a framework for developers to write React Native micro\-apps leveraging Hike's social graph ● Implemented an interprocess communication framework that facilitated protected data access, active/passive subscription, resource sharing between different core applications of the OS ● Design and implementation of the SDK that enabled writing applications over the UTP framework ● Developed an application to enable a complete offline payment experience built over BHIM's USSD framework ● Reduction in the memory footprint to deliver a smoother experience on devices with low\-end hardware

Senior Software Engineer at CREO, Jan 2016 \- Jul 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, ● Developed Sense, a search engine which provides an aggregation of indexed information like apps,contacts, messages, files, media present on the device ● Implemented a framework which allowed other applications to add their search indexes to universal discovery points \(Settings, Sense etc\) ● Implemented the surfacing framework which educated users about the features in the OS based on contextual touch points like the launch of an application, setting up of alarms, dialling etc ● Designed a framework to enable applications to add functionality to the 'Quick Toggle' drawer of android's SystemUI component

Software Engineer at Teewe\.in, Jun 2015 \- Dec 2015 · 7 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, ● Developed the Couch application for the Teewe media streaming dongle\. It was a combination of web scraping and video playback from popular streaming websites in India like Hotstar, SonyLiv etc ● Implementation of media playback built over Google's ExoPlayer for adaptive streaming protocols like HLS and DASH ● Developed the media seek experience for the Couch android application which enabled users to seek long form content effectively ● Design and implementation of the analytics SDK

Software Development Intern at Teewe\.in, Jan 2015 \- Jun 2015 · 6 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, ● Part of the team that developed the Windows 8 universal app, featured by Microsoft on the Window's store ● Revamp of Teewe dongle's UI which included adding plugins for showing realtime information from various sources including Google news and OpenWeatherMap

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \(BE\), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

## Public links

- medium: https://medium\.com/@farhanrd

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