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Senior Android Engineer · Mobile Payments & Subscriptions @ Adobe Acrobat Android (1B+ installs, 95M+ MAU) · rishabhships.com

About

I'm a Computer Scientist at Adobe Acrobat with 8+ years of Android in production. I lead growth, engagement, and monetization engineering for Acrobat Android — one of the most-installed Android apps in the world (1B+ installs, 95M+ MAU, Google Play Billing globally). My work sits at the intersection of mobile architecture and revenue: → Payments & subscriptions. I own the Acrobat Android in-app payments platform end-to-end. Most recently I designed and led the cross-product subscription upgrade / downgrade / cross-grade architecture — spanning 6 subscription products across 2 billing cadences (12+ SKUs), modeled as a 12×12 logic grid covering every user-state transition. Shipped Jan 2026 with zero production incidents in 5+ months since launch; design subsequently adopted by 2 other Acrobat apps in the organization. → Growth engineering. I led the engagement charter that grew annual subscription retention 35%, and shipped the server-driven, context-aware paywall surface that delivered a 15% FY24 upsell uplift. → Mobile DevEx. I build the automations that let our Android organization ship monetization changes weekly — a Figma design linter that catches RTL / dark-mode / accessibility issues before review, an automated release-branch cherry-pick + Jira workflow, and a weekly executive KPI digest that auto-generates the Monday leadership readout. Mentoring engineers earlier in their careers is a meaningful share of what I do day-to-day. Earlier I led mobile at Aon — CoCubes (50K+ downloads, 4.1★), Assessment (150K+ downloads, 4.0★), and the React Native v2 unifying iOS+Android. Started at Samsung R&D on Samsung Pay (UPI/NPCI compliance). I write about mobile payments architecture, subscription systems, and Android DevEx at rishabhships.com. On the open-source side, I maintain renew-kt — a Kotlin state machine for Google Play Billing subscriptions (7 states, 11 events, RTDN adapter, 40+ tests). github.com/rishabhships/renew-kt I'm selectively open to senior/staff IC opportunities — mobile payments, mobile platform, monetization engineering. Big Tech India GCCs, remote USD roles, or international relocation (UK / EU / UAE). I also take a small number of consulting engagements per quarter: payments architecture audits for consumer mobile apps with >100K MAU. 📩 g.rishabh2010@gmail.com

Location

India

AI stack

antigravity

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Work experience

Computer Scientist at Adobe, May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos, Noida, Acrobat Android — Growth, Engagement & Monetisation Working at the intersection of mobile architecture and revenue for Acrobat Android (1B+ installs, 95M+ MAU, Google Play Billing globally). • Designed and led Acrobat Mobile's first cross-product subscription upgrade / downgrade / cross-grade architecture. Spans 6 subscription products across 2 billing cadences (12+ SKUs); modelled the state-transition matrix as a 12×12 logic grid covering every user transition. Drove cross-org alignment with senior leadership across the Acrobat suite. Shipped Jan 2026 with zero production incidents in 5+ months; large-bundle purchases trending up; design adopted by 2 other Acrobat apps in the organisation. • Own end-to-end stability of the Acrobat Android in-app payments platform (Google Play Billing, global). Instituted proactive monitoring, alerting, and a controlled-rollback playbook; reduced payment-related incidents 23% quarter-over-quarter. • Built three production-grade DevEx automations used across the team and organisation: → Figma Design Linter — automates design review for RTL, error states, click-journey completeness, light/dark-mode parity, font scaling, and analytics-spec coverage; posts corrections back to Figma in-place. → Release cherry-pick + Jira workflow — parses PRs for Jira IDs and fix-versions, auto-cherry-picks release-branch fixes to develop, auto-transitions Jira on merge, posts a single Slack notification. Eliminated the recurring pre-release "missed cherry-pick" cycle. → Weekly Executive KPI Digest — aggregates MAU, Paid MAU, Purchases, and App Opens from the backend; generates insights and recommended actions; ships a Monday Slack message plus auto-generated PowerPoint readout. • Lead architecture and code-review practices for an 8-engineer Android team. Mentored 7 engineers (5 freshers, 2 interns); reduced production defects 9% last quarter through revamped review practices.

Member of Technical Staff II at Adobe, Dec 2021 - Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Noida, Acrobat Android — Monetization & Engagement • Led the annual-subscription engagement charter, growing user retention 35% through paywall surface redesigns, A/B-tested upsell touchpoints, and context-aware monetization placement. • Drove a 15% FY24 upsell uplift by designing and shipping the server-driven, context-aware paywall surface that lets product iterate on the upsell experience without app releases. • Mentored 5 junior Android engineers through onboarding, architecture work, and code-review practices across multiple monetization-feature launches.

Software Engineer at Aon, Mar 2020 - Nov 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos, Gurugram, Lead Mobile Developer — CoCubes / Assessment / Proctor / Corporate • CoCubes (Android, 50K+ downloads, 4.1★) — built the original native app; later led the React Native v2 unifying iOS + Android with improved cold-start under poor-network conditions. • Assessment (Android, 150K+ downloads, 4.0★) — revamped for remote candidate proctoring; hardened the test-taking flow against intermittent connectivity, low-RAM devices, and aggressive Android OEM background-process killers. • Mentored 2 junior Android engineers through onboarding and feature ownership.

Associate Software Engineer at Aon, Oct 2018 - Mar 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, Mobile Developer - Proctor / Corporate • Built Proctor and Corporate internal apps (location-validated check-in; HR / account-manager workflows) • Built analysis model for detecting mood and speech pattern, cheating and fraudulent practices in a given text.

Student Trainee at Samsung India, Jan 2018 - Jul 2018 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Contributed to UPI / NPCI guideline compliance hardening and shipped production bug fixes across the Samsung Pay Android app.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, RV College of Engineering