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title: "Rajendra Rundla - Technical Lead in Noida | Tal"
description: "Meet Rajendra Rundla, Sr. Android Engineer | 10M+ Users Scaled | Jetpack Compose | AI-Assisted Dev | Performance & Architecture based in Noida. AI stack includes antigravity and codex."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/rajendra-rundla/share-image"
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# Rajendra Rundla on Tal

## Headline

Sr\. Android Engineer \| 10M\+ Users Scaled \| Jetpack Compose \| AI\-Assisted Dev \| Performance & Architecture

## About

Tech Lead \| Senior IC \- Android with 10\+ years of experience, currently driving development of TOI News \(10M\+ downloads, 4\.3★\) within a 15\+ engineer team at Times Internet\. Achieved 99\.97% crash\-free rate and reduced frozen frames from 8\.6% to 2\.3%\. Proficient in AI\-assisted software development, applying LLM tools \(Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Antigravity\) and prompt engineering to accelerate Android feature delivery, code generation, and refactoring workflows\. Previously 6 years at Samsung R&D, with code shipping on 100\+ device models and multiple onsite assignments at Samsung HQ \(South Korea\) and Samsung America \(Seattle\)\.

## Location

Noida

## AI stack

antigravity

codex

## Work experience

Technical Lead at Times Internet, Aug 2023 \- Present · 3 yrs 1 mo, On\-site, •Lead development of TOI News \(10M\+ downloads, 4\.3★\), TOI DataStore library, and TOI Briefs app\. Drive architecture decisions, code reviews, and Compose adoption across the team\. •Performance Optimization: Elevated app stability to 99\.97% crash\-free sessions and reduced frozen frames from 8\.6% → 2\.3% via Perfetto\-driven profiling, StrictMode enforcement, and systematic memory leak remediation\. •Compose UI Architecture: Led the migration to Jetpack Compose, architecting a Clean Architecture –aligned UI layer with scalable patterns, reusable components, and clear separation of concerns \(Composable \| Controller \| View Data \| Repository\), accelerating the transition from XML\. •NewsCard / Story Stack: Built a card\-based news experience supporting image, video, and poll content types with story persistence, pinch\-to\-zoom, shimmer states, and analytics\. •Video Shorts \(Compose Pager\): Architected TikTok\-style vertical shorts with swipe animations, pagination, deduplication, deeplink routing, and full\-screen playback\. •Video Player & PiP: Managed Slike video SDK integration with version upgrades and compatibility fixes\. Built Article Show PiP with inline\-to\-floating transitions, LBand animations, and scroll\-aware lifecycle\. •LBand Ad System: Designed L\-shaped banner ad overlay for video and live TV with feed\-driven loading, enter/exit animations, and crash resilience\. •ET Market Integration: Integrated ET Market individual app as submodule in TOI news app\. •Multi\-Language Architecture: Engineered single\-codebase architecture serving 10\+ language editions with dynamic font loading, server\-driven translations, and deferred font downloads\. Multiple language\-specific APKs from a unified codebase\. •Deeplink Framework: Built scalable deeplink routing framework using Dagger, enabling type\-based resolution across all features\. •Login & SSO: Migrated auth flow to bottom\-sheet UX with SSO SDK, user data deletion, deeplink support, and GDPR/DMP compliance\.

Senior Android Developer at Times Internet, Apr 2021 \- Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Hybrid, •Built Live TV & Radio Player, Video News, Cricket Liveblog, Visual Stories, Onboarding, and Photo Gallery using ExoPlayer with adaptive bitrate, background playback, and PiP\. •Implemented real\-time delivery for live cricket scores and election coverage via WebSocket and FCM\. •TOI Briefs: Built Visual Stories end\-to\-end, Notification Center in Compose, and reusable coachmark framework with haptic feedback\. •Resolved OOM issues via LeakCanary, migrated ViewPager to ViewPager2, implemented tiered caching \(3\-min soft / 30\-day hard expiry\)\. Awarded “Rising Star” — best performer within 6 months of joining\.

Lead Engineer at Samsung Electronics, Mar 2019 \- Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, • Leading and developing Blocked Number Provider and Message Provider syncing in Smart watch and phone\. • Handled Useful Cards feature, which involves categorizing messages \(Offer/Reminder/Finance\) using ML and parsing of useful fields from message to create and show an actionable card with useful information from the message\.

Engineer at Samsung Electronics, Jul 2015 \- Mar 2019 · 3 yrs 9 mos, Noida, India, • Core member for Messaging Application \(Legacy/RCS Messaging, Send Help Messages\) having expertise in flow of Messaging at applications level and interaction with RIL/IMS/Telephony layer\. • Handled the CMC feature for Messages in android 9/10/11, which involves receiving messages across multiple devices\. • Handled Message Provider for Galaxy Wearables and developed feature RCS Reply to send RCS chat from Samsung Smart watches\. • Reviewed and implemented patches in Messaging app and efficiently handled OS upgrade projects of flagship models\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Information Technology, Malaviya National Institute of Technology \(MNIT\), Jaipur

Senior Secondary \(XII\), Mathematics, Krishna Sikshan Sansthan, Jaipur

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