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Farheen Shah

Software Engineer | Gojek | PhonePe | IIIT-Delhi

Delhi

8+ years of work experience

Kredivo Group
May 20242 y 4 moPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

FairMoney
Nov 20212 yrs 6 mosApr 2024

Lending India: Took the India lending Android application from almost zero to complete lending product, compliant with the RBI (regulating authority in India) Onboarded multiple lenders on the platform, while keeping the Android product lender agnostic for an end-user. At peak, we reached a maximum of ~ INR 12 million disbursement daily. Lending Nigeria: Improved app architecture by moving to Google’s Jetpack guidelines for better state management and separation of concerns in the app. Leading a project to increase card tokenization success-rates. We’ve already increased the tokenisation success rate from ~ 30% to ~ 50%, increasing our disbursals by ~ 3% and Gross loan book by ~ 4 million euros.
Gojek
Mar 20201 yr 8 mosOct 2021

Led several features in Driver app from initial discussions to live in production: Chat history: Drivers can now chat with customers even after order is completed. This led to 35% reduction in invalid DNPU cases and 50% reduction in "items left in GoCar" Booking Monitor: Reminds drivers about the active order, and marks them offline, if no activity even after the customer canceled the order. Time taken to pick-up was reduced by 4% for car and 1% for bike orders. Customer cancellation due to driver not moving reduced by 2% for bike and 4% for car orders Worked on improving android app vitals, specifically excessive wakeups and app cold start time Face Mask Verification: Built after Covid, used in-house ML model bundled with the app, which only takes drivers online if they are wearing a mask. Improved brand salience on the perception of hygiene and trust from 0 to 1
PhonePe
Jul 20198 mosFeb 2020

Solely responsible for handling the Gold category, where a user can buy/sell digital gold on the PhonePe Android application Built the capability for a customer to claim Gold-back, similar to cash-back and add that as a transaction in app. ~ 200 people claimed this in Oct 2019, Indian festival to buy Gold (Dhanteras) Re-designed the complete Gold category with the purpose of educating users and driving more gold transactions. In the next month after redesign, Gold saw 2% increase in number of transactions and ~ 1% increase in transaction volume. Collaborated with multiple internal & external teams to integrate a credit line from Flipkart known as Flipkart BNPL.
Classplus (formerly XPrep)
Aug 20171 yr 11 mosJun 2019

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Working as sole Android dev for many months, led a team of 3 people by the time I left. Built the Classplus Android app from ground up to first release. Was responsible for the complete app and involved in product decisions from ideation to design iterations to development and taking the features live in production. Met multiple clients to understand the real world pain-points and take product decisions based on their feedback. Set-up/improved multiple processes in the org: Process to build white-label apps, which are apps with specific changes, based on a basic skeleton app Wrote a python script to automate the process of creating a new white-label app Wrote a python script to update all the existing apps (~ 2000 when I left) practically on the click of a button Created multiple internal applications to smoothen and improve the day-to-day job of various teams.

Farheen’s AI Stack

claude code
claude code
gemini
gemini
github copilot
github copilot

Education

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi

20133 yrs2016

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Headline

Software Engineer | Gojek | PhonePe | IIIT-Delhi

About

Seasoned Software engineer with focus on scalable app architecture and maintaining app vitals for better performance.

Location

Delhi

AI stack

claude code

gemini

github copilot

Work experience

Engineering Manager at Kredivo Group, May 2024 - Present · 2 y 4 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Principal Software Engineer at FairMoney, Nov 2021 - Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Lending India: Took the India lending Android application from almost zero to complete lending product, compliant with the RBI (regulating authority in India) Onboarded multiple lenders on the platform, while keeping the Android product lender agnostic for an end-user. At peak, we reached a maximum of ~ INR 12 million disbursement daily. Lending Nigeria: Improved app architecture by moving to Google’s Jetpack guidelines for better state management and separation of concerns in the app. Leading a project to increase card tokenization success-rates. We’ve already increased the tokenisation success rate from ~ 30% to ~ 50%, increasing our disbursals by ~ 3% and Gross loan book by ~ 4 million euros.

Senior Product Engineer at Gojek, Mar 2020 - Oct 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos, Led several features in Driver app from initial discussions to live in production: Chat history: Drivers can now chat with customers even after order is completed. This led to 35% reduction in invalid DNPU cases and 50% reduction in "items left in GoCar" Booking Monitor: Reminds drivers about the active order, and marks them offline, if no activity even after the customer canceled the order. Time taken to pick-up was reduced by 4% for car and 1% for bike orders. Customer cancellation due to driver not moving reduced by 2% for bike and 4% for car orders Worked on improving android app vitals, specifically excessive wakeups and app cold start time Face Mask Verification: Built after Covid, used in-house ML model bundled with the app, which only takes drivers online if they are wearing a mask. Improved brand salience on the perception of hygiene and trust from 0 to 1

Senior Software Engineer at PhonePe, Jul 2019 - Feb 2020 · 8 mos, Solely responsible for handling the Gold category, where a user can buy/sell digital gold on the PhonePe Android application Built the capability for a customer to claim Gold-back, similar to cash-back and add that as a transaction in app. ~ 200 people claimed this in Oct 2019, Indian festival to buy Gold (Dhanteras) Re-designed the complete Gold category with the purpose of educating users and driving more gold transactions. In the next month after redesign, Gold saw 2% increase in number of transactions and ~ 1% increase in transaction volume. Collaborated with multiple internal & external teams to integrate a credit line from Flipkart known as Flipkart BNPL.

Lead Software Engineer at Classplus (formerly XPrep), Aug 2017 - Jun 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, Working as sole Android dev for many months, led a team of 3 people by the time I left. Built the Classplus Android app from ground up to first release. Was responsible for the complete app and involved in product decisions from ideation to design iterations to development and taking the features live in production. Met multiple clients to understand the real world pain-points and take product decisions based on their feedback. Set-up/improved multiple processes in the org: Process to build white-label apps, which are apps with specific changes, based on a basic skeleton app Wrote a python script to automate the process of creating a new white-label app Wrote a python script to update all the existing apps (~ 2000 when I left) practically on the click of a button Created multiple internal applications to smoothen and improve the day-to-day job of various teams.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi