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Girish Suragani

Engineering Manager @ Navi | ex - Zeta, Gojek | IIIT Gwalior

Bengaluru

7+ years of work experience

Navi
Jan 20268 mosPresent

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Managing and mentoring a team of 10+ engineers across Ads, Rewards and Coupons charters; owning delivery, technical roadmap, sprint planning, and cross-team execution. • Leading the Rewards charter delivering retention initiatives (Navi Plus, Action Hub, Scratch Cards), controlling reward costs via expiry mechanisms, and scaling referral programs. • Driving the development of the Coupons charter from scratch. • Driving the rollout of Ads monetization models including CPC, CPM, and CPD, along with new ad formats such as Video Ads; improving SDK reliability by optimizing failures to further scale Ads revenue. • Leading the development of an internal App Release Framework using Spring Boot, Kotlin, Kafka, SQL, and Slack bot to streamline release workflows and improve engineering productivity. • Owning and driving SDE - 1 hiring initiatives to scale the engineering team in line with business growth.
Navi
Jan 20242 yrsDec 2025

Greater Bengaluru Area

• Led and managed a team of 9 engineers (Android & iOS) across Ads, Rewards, and Core Android; drove architectural decisions, code reviews, and monthly 1:1s, transitioned 2 SDE-1s and 1 SDE-3 to the next level. • Led Core Android initiatives for the Navi app (10M DAU) - App Shell, SDKs, Gradle, and CI/CD with focus on uptime, crash monitoring, and performance. Achieved 60% faster app startup in multiple phases and reduced ANRs from 6% to 1.8% and enhanced Crash free rate to 99.98% • Designed and built Ads SDK with Server-Driven UI, contributing ∼10Cr yearly revenue. Drove Compose Multiplatform adoption by building Ads on iOS and MyRupay in CMP. • Drove the development of multiple projects in Rewards like Powerplay game, Monthly Progress Meter, Coin Drop, scaling Navi UPI to 4th place with market share improving from 1% to 3.5%. • Architected and led development of Navi Money Manager in MVI + Jetpack Compose. • Completed Dale Carnegie Manager Development Program Certification.
Navi
Dec 20221 yr 1 moDec 2023

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Rewards and Referral - - Set up the complete Referral journey using the Branch SDK. - Built the Referral screens using Jetpack Compose and Rewards screen using a Server driven framework (Widgetisation) Customer Experience and Platforms (CRM) - - Lead the development of My Tickets screen, Help Center screen and Support screen using Compose and Widgetisation framework. - Built the Navi Chat support screen using firestore. The chat screen is completely configurable from backend through widgets. Built video/audio/photo attachment functionalities and players. Alfred (Screen Recording SDK) - - Building an Android screen recording and analytics SDK for the super app. - It periodically captures screenshots of the app by drawing the views, constructing the zips and building the events (touch, scroll, failures), Api metrics, device metrics, performance and uploads them to the server periodically. - Extended screen recording capabilities for React Native and Jetpack Compose. - Developed masking functionalities for XML and Jetpack Compose - Leveraged work managers for periodically uploading the events and zips to backends.
Zeta
Aug 20211 yr 5 mosDec 2022

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Part of the Zeta-Sodexo team(Electron) which built Sodexo Apps for Asia, Europe and South America! Major product focus - • Tax Savings and Employee Benefits • Employee Recognition - Built Android CI/CD pipelines from scratch for all the Zeta-Sodexo Applications. Added functionalities like publishing app to PlayStore/Firebase from the pipeline itself which made app distribution simple for QA and Prod. - Developed Sodexo Italy and Spain Android Apps and made them ready for public launch after multiple rounds of regression and bug fixing. - Actively involved in biweekly on-calls for all the Zeta-Sodexo apps. Ensured that all high severity incidents are fixed before the breach time.
GoTo Group
May 20214 mosAug 2021

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Took end to end ownership of GoClub android modules • Designed and developed the architecture of goclub-components module • Experimented with new features in GoClub • Did Android UI automation • Wrote blog on Material Components - https://link.medium.com/zVKTIHl0ojb
GoTo Group
Jul 202011 mosMay 2021

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Developed GoClub product in Android from scratch • Key contributor in the Gojek Athena project - Unification of the Gojek app for all countries • Contributed in Home v4 performance optimization project
GoTo Group
Jan 20206 mosJun 2020

Bangalore

• Part of developing the Home v4 of the Gojek app • Implemented complex native animations and fixed bugs • Significant contributor of the Covid Donation project
Toppr
May 20193 mosJul 2019

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Refactored Custom Tests Module of Toppr App from MVP to Clean Architecture and MVVM. • Redesigned and fixed bugs in Test Tools and Learn Flow Module. • Built Toppr Games App from scratch following Test Driven Development (TDD) approach. • Technologies used - 1. Dagger for dependency injection 2. RxJava 3. Clean Architecture with MVVM 4. Kotlin Language 5. Room Database 6. Mockito for Testing
Chai Bisket
Jan 20188 mosAug 2018

Developed two Android apps - NewsCoin and TAPq NewsCoin This is an app for reading daily news and earning money. Implemented swipeable cards to display news. For every swipe the user earns 1 NewsCoin which he can redeem for real money. Also implemented Google Admob in the app to show Banner Ads, Interstitial Ads and Rewarded Videos . Login/ Registration and news content were fetched by making calls to the web server using Retrofit (Rest API) and parsing the JSON data. Technologies used: 1. Google Admob to display Ads in the app. 2. Retrofit (Rest APIs) for making call to the web server. 3. Firebase notifications for sending push notifications. TAPq This is a live quiz trivia app. Used Okhttp (websockets) for establishing a connection with the server when the game starts. Fragments were implemented to display the questions/options in a card when a message is received from the server . User/ Game information and Leaderboard values were fetched using Retrofit (Rest Api) by making calls to the server. Facebook Account kit was used for handling registration and Firebase Cloud Messaging for implementing push notifications in the app. Technologies used: 1. Okhttp (Websockets) 2. Retrofit (Rest API) 3. Facebook Account Kit 4. Firebase Cloud Messaging

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Education

ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management

Integrated B.Tech & M.Tech, Information Technology

ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management

Intermediate

Narayana Junior College, Jubilee Hills

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Engineering Manager @ Navi | ex - Zeta, Gojek | IIIT Gwalior

About

🚀 Engineering Manager at Navi building and scaling high-traffic consumer platforms 📱 Leading Android & iOS mobile teams across Ads, Rewards, and Coupons; driving delivery, architecture, and roadmap ownership 💰 Working on monetization, loyalty projects, and referral growth engines powering millions of daily users 🛠️ Passionate about mobile performance, scalable architecture, and modern stacks (Jetpack Compose, CMP, Kotlin, Spring Boot) 👥 Focused on mentorship, hiring, and growing high-impact engineering teams

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Engineering Manager at Navi, Jan 2026 - Present · 8 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, • Managing and mentoring a team of 10+ engineers across Ads, Rewards and Coupons charters; owning delivery, technical roadmap, sprint planning, and cross-team execution. • Leading the Rewards charter delivering retention initiatives (Navi Plus, Action Hub, Scratch Cards), controlling reward costs via expiry mechanisms, and scaling referral programs. • Driving the development of the Coupons charter from scratch. • Driving the rollout of Ads monetization models including CPC, CPM, and CPD, along with new ad formats such as Video Ads; improving SDK reliability by optimizing failures to further scale Ads revenue. • Leading the development of an internal App Release Framework using Spring Boot, Kotlin, Kafka, SQL, and Slack bot to streamline release workflows and improve engineering productivity. • Owning and driving SDE - 1 hiring initiatives to scale the engineering team in line with business growth.

SDE 3 (Engineering Manager) at Navi, Jan 2024 - Dec 2025 · 2 yrs, Greater Bengaluru Area, • Led and managed a team of 9 engineers (Android & iOS) across Ads, Rewards, and Core Android; drove architectural decisions, code reviews, and monthly 1:1s, transitioned 2 SDE-1s and 1 SDE-3 to the next level. • Led Core Android initiatives for the Navi app (10M DAU) - App Shell, SDKs, Gradle, and CI/CD with focus on uptime, crash monitoring, and performance. Achieved 60% faster app startup in multiple phases and reduced ANRs from 6% to 1.8% and enhanced Crash free rate to 99.98% • Designed and built Ads SDK with Server-Driven UI, contributing ∼10Cr yearly revenue. Drove Compose Multiplatform adoption by building Ads on iOS and MyRupay in CMP. • Drove the development of multiple projects in Rewards like Powerplay game, Monthly Progress Meter, Coin Drop, scaling Navi UPI to 4th place with market share improving from 1% to 3.5%. • Architected and led development of Navi Money Manager in MVI + Jetpack Compose. • Completed Dale Carnegie Manager Development Program Certification.

Software Development Engineer 2 at Navi, Dec 2022 - Dec 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Rewards and Referral - - Set up the complete Referral journey using the Branch SDK. - Built the Referral screens using Jetpack Compose and Rewards screen using a Server driven framework (Widgetisation) Customer Experience and Platforms (CRM) - - Lead the development of My Tickets screen, Help Center screen and Support screen using Compose and Widgetisation framework. - Built the Navi Chat support screen using firestore. The chat screen is completely configurable from backend through widgets. Built video/audio/photo attachment functionalities and players. Alfred (Screen Recording SDK) - - Building an Android screen recording and analytics SDK for the super app. - It periodically captures screenshots of the app by drawing the views, constructing the zips and building the events (touch, scroll, failures), Api metrics, device metrics, performance and uploads them to the server periodically. - Extended screen recording capabilities for React Native and Jetpack Compose. - Developed masking functionalities for XML and Jetpack Compose - Leveraged work managers for periodically uploading the events and zips to backends.

Software Development Engineer 2 at Zeta, Aug 2021 - Dec 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Part of the Zeta-Sodexo team(Electron) which built Sodexo Apps for Asia, Europe and South America! Major product focus - • Tax Savings and Employee Benefits • Employee Recognition - Built Android CI/CD pipelines from scratch for all the Zeta-Sodexo Applications. Added functionalities like publishing app to PlayStore/Firebase from the pipeline itself which made app distribution simple for QA and Prod. - Developed Sodexo Italy and Spain Android Apps and made them ready for public launch after multiple rounds of regression and bug fixing. - Actively involved in biweekly on-calls for all the Zeta-Sodexo apps. Ensured that all high severity incidents are fixed before the breach time.

Software Engineer 2 at GoTo Group, May 2021 - Aug 2021 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Took end to end ownership of GoClub android modules • Designed and developed the architecture of goclub-components module • Experimented with new features in GoClub • Did Android UI automation • Wrote blog on Material Components - https://link.medium.com/zVKTIHl0ojb

Software Engineer 1 at GoTo Group, Jul 2020 - May 2021 · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Developed GoClub product in Android from scratch • Key contributor in the Gojek Athena project - Unification of the Gojek app for all countries • Contributed in Home v4 performance optimization project

Software Engineer Intern at GoTo Group, Jan 2020 - Jun 2020 · 6 mos, Bangalore, • Part of developing the Home v4 of the Gojek app • Implemented complex native animations and fixed bugs • Significant contributor of the Covid Donation project

Android Development Intern at Toppr, May 2019 - Jul 2019 · 3 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, • Refactored Custom Tests Module of Toppr App from MVP to Clean Architecture and MVVM. • Redesigned and fixed bugs in Test Tools and Learn Flow Module. • Built Toppr Games App from scratch following Test Driven Development (TDD) approach. • Technologies used - 1. Dagger for dependency injection 2. RxJava 3. Clean Architecture with MVVM 4. Kotlin Language 5. Room Database 6. Mockito for Testing

Android Developer at Chai Bisket, Jan 2018 - Aug 2018 · 8 mos, Developed two Android apps - NewsCoin and TAPq NewsCoin This is an app for reading daily news and earning money. Implemented swipeable cards to display news. For every swipe the user earns 1 NewsCoin which he can redeem for real money. Also implemented Google Admob in the app to show Banner Ads, Interstitial Ads and Rewarded Videos . Login/ Registration and news content were fetched by making calls to the web server using Retrofit (Rest API) and parsing the JSON data. Technologies used: 1. Google Admob to display Ads in the app. 2. Retrofit (Rest APIs) for making call to the web server. 3. Firebase notifications for sending push notifications. TAPq This is a live quiz trivia app. Used Okhttp (websockets) for establishing a connection with the server when the game starts. Fragments were implemented to display the questions/options in a card when a message is received from the server . User/ Game information and Leaderboard values were fetched using Retrofit (Rest Api) by making calls to the server. Facebook Account kit was used for handling registration and Firebase Cloud Messaging for implementing push notifications in the app. Technologies used: 1. Okhttp (Websockets) 2. Retrofit (Rest API) 3. Facebook Account Kit 4. Firebase Cloud Messaging

Education

Integrated B.Tech & M.Tech, Information Technology, ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management

Intermediate, Narayana Junior College, Jubilee Hills