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Senior Android Engineer | Ex - [Blinkit, Cricbuzz(Times Internet) & Startup’s] | Kotlin | KMP | Top 0.1 @ Topmate

About

Ever since I was a teenager, software development has been my passion. I still remember my initial days of programming when I was sitting in front of a desktop, with the basic cartridge loaded in, making it print "Hello! Kunal" for the very first time. As I went through the BASIC tutorial, it was almost magic, being able to get the computer to do whatever I wanted, just by typing in these funny little symbols, limited only by my own imagination and ingenuity. Throughout my high school, I latched on to any ideas for projects I could get, moving from "Hello World!" all the way to a simple GUI application using JAVA. I learned JAVA, then MySQL, tearing through any books I could find on anything remotely related to software development. I was insatiable. This passion carried me through my education at Gujarat Technological University. Here there were more resources available to me than I ever could have imagined as a teenager. I studied ANDROID, WEB and BACK END development and also new languages like KOTLIN, JAVASCRIPT and different frameworks like React.js, Vue.js, Node.js and Express.js, all with pretty much the same fascination that drove me as a teenager. And it was here that I learned truly how much there was yet to learn. So, now, in industry, this passion remains with me. There's certainly a lot more to learn, yet more problems to solve, and yet more to build because we can grow only by learning. And for this I'm very grateful. Specialties: Java, Kotlin, Android Development

Location

India

AI stack

claude code

claude

cursor

gemini

github copilot

ChatGPT

Work experience

Senior Android Engineer at POP, Oct 2025 - Jun 2026 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, —> Built and rolled out a scalable Design System using Jetpack Compose, improving UI consistency and developer velocity across teams. —> Developed an in-house navigation and transition framework supporting advanced animations like split-screen and mask-reveal. —> Architected and integrated Server-to-Server payment framework for in-app commerce flows, improving reliability and transaction success rates. —> Built a modular analytics framework enabling unified event tracking across multiple third-party providers and internal systems

Software Development Engineer II at Blinkit, Apr 2025 - Oct 2025 · 6 mo, Gurugram, —> Led development of internal platforms (Blinkit Partners, Blinkit Nexus) used by operations teams at scale. —> Implemented BFF and server-driven UI architecture using Jetpack Compose and Compose Multiplatform. —> Improved development efficiency and release velocity

Software Development Engineer II at Eternal, Apr 2025 - Oct 2025 · 7 mos, Gurugram

Software Development Engineer 1 at Razorpay, Sep 2024 - Apr 2025 · 7 mo, Bengaluru

Software Development Engineer I at Rooter.gg, Mar 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos, New Delhi, Delhi, India, —> Working on the India’s largest game streaming platform with more then 18M MAU and 2.5M DAU. —> The app is currently ranked No. 1 on google play store in sports category with 50M+ downloads. —> Worked on the revamp of the video player of the app using motion layout, similar to YouTube app video player. —> Worked on the caching of the API calls providing a seamless experience to the users even when they are offline. —> Revamped the discover/explore screen of the app which is the 2nd most visited screen in the app with MVVM architecture and reels auto-play functionality. —> Revamped the side navigation bar of the app with a new UI and enabling the items to be dynamically added/removed using remote config. —> Revamped the bottom navigation bar of the app with the support for dynamic items with different labels, icons and positions using remote config and enabled the support for 1-5 total items in the bottom bar. —> Developed a framework which enables auto switch to secondary servers in case the main server is down which acts as a backup when there is a temporary server outage. —> Revamped the Home Screen of the app . —> Created an advanced video upload service which supports file size upto 10 GB and resume support for the upload in case it the upload fails. —> Integrated rewarded and interstitial ad with pre loading support and a common pool for showing the ad immediately from anywhere in the app.

Software Engineer at Cricbuzz.com, Jun 2022 - Feb 2023 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, —> Improvising the Cricbuzz Android app for over 100 million users. —> Was having complete responsibility and ownership of the overall development because the team size was only 2. —> Responsible for development of new features in the app & fixing bugs. —> Developed the live match streaming feature which will be used by over 100 million users to stream live matches. —> Developed a feature called Fantasy Handbook which will allow the users to choose their fantasy 11. —> Revamped the existing subscription flow for the cricbuzz plus and integrated new flow with UI. —> Integrated In App Review API which will allow the users to rate the app without opening the play store. —> Added a feature using which a user can delete their account. —> Improved the UX by adding haptic feedback in the bottom bar of the app. —> Added an feature in the Match Centre using which the user can toggle between matches without going to home page or schedule page.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Gujarat Technological University (GTU)

High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Certificate Programs, Central Board of Secondary Education

Public links

github: https://github.com/imkunalshah