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Engineering at Meesho

About

Leading the Discovery, Offers and Mobile engineering charters at Meesho, with over 12 years building high-scale consumer apps with a blended mobile and backend background. Prior to Meesho, spent 5 years leading mobile development at Aware - a guided mindfulness meditation app incubated at IIM Bangalore.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Senior Engineering Manager at Meesho, Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Leading the Discovery and Decision-to-Buy (DTB) orgs, driving key business experiences across homepage, feed, sort and filter, and PDP. Managing 4 teams with a span of 60+ engineers through 3 Engineering Managers, including the Android platform, while setting the technical roadmap for Discovery and DTB. Owned app quality and performance at scale, and spearheaded AI initiatives such as Virtual Try-On, Buy for Me, and the PDP chatbot.

Engineering Manager at Meesho, Jan 2023 - Dec 2024 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Led a 7-member Android platform team at Meesho, strengthening mobile platform stability and quality while scaling the team and mentoring a successor to take over leadership. Expanded scope by taking charge of the Discovery backend team, defining its technical direction and building execution capability while managing 4 backend engineers alongside platform responsibilities.

Lead Engineer (SDE-4) at Meesho, Jul 2020 - Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Played a pivotal role in leading the Android team at Meesho, focusing on enhancing app performance and stability. • Developed in-house app metrics tracking to improve observability and user experience. • Successfully maintained APK size under ~14 MB while achieving 99.90% app stability. • Fostered a collaborative environment by initiating the Android platform team, driving innovation.

Android Developer at Roundglass, May 2019 - Jul 2019 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Android Developer - Aware - (Acquired by RoundGlass) at Aware - Meditation & Mindfulness, Mar 2017 - Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Aware is mindfulness meditation app that simplifies meditation to help you stay calm, reduce stress, improve productivity and bring much more positivity into your life. • Early team member; Responsibilities involved in building an MVP and managing all the engineering activities including app releases for Android and iOS • Extensively used Android’s MediaPlayer API to play meditation audio sessions • Implemented new Material Design and refactored the entire codebase with Kotlin • Used Koin - a lightweight dependency injection framework for Kotlin • Developed a smart file download management system for audio sessions with caching capabilities for offline listening • Followed MVVM design pattern • Android in-app purchase integration - recurring & one-time subscriptions, with restore option • Deep linking enabled within the app to navigate users to different screens based on targeted campaigns created by the marketing team • Multi-sign-in capabilities including Facebook, Google, and Basic Authentication • Along with Google, the app was also released on Amazon, LG and Opera app stores • Integrated SendGrid mail service on Google Cloud Platform to send transactional emails • Built a one-way communicating chat bot using Node.js and Firebase Cloud Messaging Play Store link - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mindfulness.aware

Lead Mobile Developer at zoojoo.BE, Jan 2014 - Feb 2017 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, • Involved in setting up a mobile team of 2 iOS and 2 Android developers • Built a step tracking pedometer feature that analysed raw sensor outputs and filtered them to accurately monitor step counts • Refactored app codebase to support newer Android APIs along with providing backward compatibility support up to Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) • Planning quarterly charter for based on the requirements

Android Developer at zoojoo.BE, Jan 2014 - Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos, NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore, Zoojoo.be, an IIM Bangalore incubated startup, is a game based social wellness platform that unites the workforce to form healthier habits. Tightly integrated with technology, zoojoo.be is driving higher employee engagement while using it to impact the top line parameters like productivity. The sophisticated HR analytic enables HR teams to measure and control key wellness parameters within the organisation. • Early team member; Responsibilities involved in building & implementing features in Android app • Involved in development of the core app technology and implementation of habit algorithm • Implementation of UI with backward compatibility support all the way up to API 16 • Gesture based UI controls - Swipe left or right to confirm user action on ListView item. Enhanced the library file to support the said swipe feature on parent widgets like ViewPager • Using Google Fit APIs, created an Android sync service that collected accurate data from Google Fitness History buckets • Planned feature releases for Android & iOS App by creating user stories and Trello boards • Planning quarterly charter for the mobile team based on the requirements • Compiling clean and comprehensive documentations for every feature released • Organised tasks and bug fixes using JIRA • App monitoring - Frame Time and FPS, CPU Usage, Network Traffic, and Activities lifecycle • Create release build and submitting to Play Store/App Store. • Handling build issues by directly interacting with the Apple App Support team • Supported in designing APIs for the back-end team Play Store link - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zoojoobe.mobile

Social Media Guest Lecturing at The Jain Group of Institutions, Jul 2012 - Dec 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bangalore, Responsible for helping students at Jain Group Institutions understand the basics of social media and providing insights on how popular social media tools like Facebook and Twitter are useful in the world of Internet.

Education

Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), Computer Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Computer Applications, Computer Engineering, bangalore university