Headline

Android & Flutter Engineering Lead | Mobile Architecture | Applied AI / LLM Integrations | CI/CD | Ex-Acko, Rooter

About

I am a mobile engineering lead with 11+ years of experience building and scaling consumer applications across fintech, insurance, gaming, and community platforms. My core strengths are Android engineering, Flutter-based iOS/Android delivery, mobile architecture, CI/CD, production reliability, performance optimization, backend/API integrations, and engineering leadership. At Zinc Money, I currently lead mobile engineering across Android and Flutter-based applications. My work includes platform foundations, onboarding/KYC, cross-border remittance journeys, backend-config-driven experiences, AI-native product explorations, document intelligence, OneView-style portfolio consolidation, and credit workflows. Previously, I led mobile development for Acko’s Health insurance business, where I worked on claims, policy servicing, wallet, fitness rewards, shared mobile architecture, CI/CD, and app performance. Before that, I was an early Android lead at Rooter, where I helped build the Android app from scratch across gaming, live streaming, engagement, notifications, and experimentation systems. I also built Gamerboard as a self-funded mobile-first gaming product. I enjoy working on high-ownership roles where I can combine hands-on engineering, architecture, product thinking, mentoring, and execution. I am especially interested in Staff Android, Android Architect, Mobile Platform, and Applied AI/mobile roles. Core areas: Android, Kotlin, Java, Flutter, Dart, Clean Architecture, MVVM/MVI, Coroutines, REST APIs, GraphQL, Firebase, CI/CD, performance optimization, release governance, Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot.

Location

Pune District

AI stack

claude

codex

cursor

gemini

openai

ChatGPT

Work experience

Lead Engineer at Zinc, Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Leading mobile engineering for Zinc’s fintech products, with ownership across architecture, delivery, release quality, and production stability. • Built user-facing fintech journeys across onboarding, investments, wealth management, lending, and AI-assisted financial experiences. • Designed backend-configuration-driven flows for dynamic onboarding, validation, form rendering, and product journeys. • Worked closely with product, design, backend, data, and business teams to convert ambiguous requirements into production-ready mobile experiences. • Improved mobile foundations across networking, reusable UI, state management, analytics, error handling, and release processes. • Integrated financial APIs, document upload flows, dashboards, and AI/LLM-assisted features into mobile-first product experiences. • Mentored engineers, reviewed designs, and helped improve code quality and engineering practices.

Health and well-being at Career Break, Mar 2024 - Apr 2024 · 2 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India

Lead Mobile Engineer & Co-founder at Gamerboard, Jul 2022 - Feb 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos, Remote, Responsibility to lead the app development and build the app team Laid the grounds for the app to record the BGMI and FreeFire matches and submit scores in native android Built the client facing UI in Flutter for ease of deployment on other platforms in future Setup the automated unit tests and CI/CD for app releases along with in-app update and percentage rollout mechanism Worked on profiling and optimizing the app to bring down the memory consumption of the app by 50% and CPU usage by 35% Helped the team build the automated BGMI profile scraper bot Released and monitored A/B tests for optimizing user journeys resulting in 23% and 6%, W1 and M1 retention

SDE-3 Mobile at Acko, Apr 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos

SDE-2 Mobile at Acko, Nov 2020 - Sep 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos, On-site

Android Lead | Founding member at Rooter Sports Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Jan 2017 - Nov 2020 · 3 yrs 11 mos, New Delhi, Delhi, India, * Responsible for the Rooter's android app * Pubg game ranking finder and room creation tech (Cloud Vision API) * LIVE broadcasting, transcoding and game streaming features (Agora Client, Media projection and Audio recorder, Youtube and Facebook LIVE) * Notification and deep linking framework and remote feature delivery and A/B tests. * Highly responsive UI with Realm and Cache Store An app with 4.7 rating, ranked in top 10 free sports app on play store with more than 3.5M+ downloads

Android Developer at Click Labs, Jul 2015 - Dec 2016 · 1 y 5 mo, Chandigarh

Education

Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Software Engineering, Delhi Technological University

Science, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sector 8 r.k.puram

Public links

github: https://github.com/saurabhdtu

leetcode: https://leetcode.com/saurabhlahoti2711