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Shailesh Chandavar

Associate Director of Engineering @ WeWork India | ex-Gojek, ex- Medibuddy, ex-Lenskart

Greater Bengaluru Area

8+ years of work experience

WeWork India
Apr 20265 mosPresent

WeWork India
May 20242 yrs 2 mosJun 2026

Banglore

MediBuddy
Oct 20221 yr 8 mosMay 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

□Successfully managed a team of 10 people I have actively contributed in hiring a skilled and efficient team, keeping the team motivated, and managing performance. □ Created a roadmap of tasks to be delivered for the iOS applications adding missing android features, motivated the team to achieve the same on time. □ Lead the design of iOS applications in a modular fashion with reusable components. □ Collaborated with Product Managers to plan, implement and deliver tasks and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs. □ Prioritized to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects. □ Played the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment and helped the other developers with challenges, problem solving, achieving milestones as per the plan. □ Hands on with programming with 35%+ of bandwidth going into modules owned.
apna
Oct 20211 yr 1 moOct 2022

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

□ Managing a software engineering team that builds, designs and implements highly scalable and performant systems and applications. □ Building iOS team for the company from ground to up. □ Building android team for employer app. □ Influencing and establish best engineering practices through strong design decisions, processes, and tools across the engineering teams. □ Contribution to the architecture of the system, take responsibility for the quality and stability of the product by getting hands-on with code and design reviews, debugging complex issues, among other things. □ Collaborating with Business and product teams to develop a long-term product roadmap, streamline and own product planning and release cycles. □ Hiring engineers as required and nurture high-performing teams.
GoTo Group
Dec 20192 yrs 1 moDec 2021

Greater Bengaluru Area

Gojek is Southeast Asia’s leading on-demand, multi-service tech platform providing access to a wide range of services including transport, payments, food delivery, logistics, and many more, serving millions of users. Responsibilities: □ Designing and developing whole new product i.e. GoBox single handedly from scratch. □ Providing inputs to the Designers and product managers to enhance the user experience of gobox application. □ Regular interactions with Aloha team(i.e. GoJek’s UI/UX team) . □ Taking design and Architectural decisions and providing documentation □ Writing UI and Unit test cases to ensure good code quality. □ Handling Interviews for GoJek.
Lenskart.com
Sep 20181 yr 4 mosDec 2019

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lenskart is India’s leading eyewear online portal with the objective to offer disruptive and one of its kind service to consumers. Lenskart currently operates 700 stores in India. □ Revamping of Product description page, category screen, OTP verificationView, Coating screen, record power screen, User capture screen, □ Implementation of Continuous Integration using Xcode Server □ Implementation of grid layout, Dynamic Product Listing Page Achievements : □ Won developer of the quarter for Q1 2019 □ Won best feature award for Review and rating in Q1 2019

Education

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Engineer's Degree, Computer Science

Visvesvaraya Technological University

20104 yrs2014

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Headline

Associate Director of Engineering @ WeWork India | ex-Gojek, ex- Medibuddy, ex-Lenskart

About

As a Senior Mobile Engineering Manager at WeWork India, I bring over a decade of expertise in iOS and Android development, having delivered 35+ apps across diverse industries. I've built and led mobile teams for top brands like Gojek, McDonald's, BBC, Paytm, and ICICI, transforming ideas into impactful, user-centric apps. At WeWork, I'm focused on driving innovation and delivering cutting-edge mobile solutions that enhance the workspace experience, all while mentoring talented engineers to reach their full potential.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

Work experience

Associate Director Engineering at WeWork India, Apr 2026 - Present · 5 mos

Senior Engineering Manager at WeWork India, May 2024 - Jun 2026 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Banglore

Engineering Manager at MediBuddy, Oct 2022 - May 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, □Successfully managed a team of 10 people I have actively contributed in hiring a skilled and efficient team, keeping the team motivated, and managing performance. □ Created a roadmap of tasks to be delivered for the iOS applications adding missing android features, motivated the team to achieve the same on time. □ Lead the design of iOS applications in a modular fashion with reusable components. □ Collaborated with Product Managers to plan, implement and deliver tasks and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs. □ Prioritized to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects. □ Played the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment and helped the other developers with challenges, problem solving, achieving milestones as per the plan. □ Hands on with programming with 35%+ of bandwidth going into modules owned.

Lead Mobility Engineer at apna, Oct 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, □ Managing a software engineering team that builds, designs and implements highly scalable and performant systems and applications. □ Building iOS team for the company from ground to up. □ Building android team for employer app. □ Influencing and establish best engineering practices through strong design decisions, processes, and tools across the engineering teams. □ Contribution to the architecture of the system, take responsibility for the quality and stability of the product by getting hands-on with code and design reviews, debugging complex issues, among other things. □ Collaborating with Business and product teams to develop a long-term product roadmap, streamline and own product planning and release cycles. □ Hiring engineers as required and nurture high-performing teams.

Lead Product Engineer at GoTo Group, Dec 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Greater Bengaluru Area, Gojek is Southeast Asia’s leading on-demand, multi-service tech platform providing access to a wide range of services including transport, payments, food delivery, logistics, and many more, serving millions of users. Responsibilities: □ Designing and developing whole new product i.e. GoBox single handedly from scratch. □ Providing inputs to the Designers and product managers to enhance the user experience of gobox application. □ Regular interactions with Aloha team(i.e. GoJek’s UI/UX team) . □ Taking design and Architectural decisions and providing documentation □ Writing UI and Unit test cases to ensure good code quality. □ Handling Interviews for GoJek.

Senior Software Engineer at Lenskart.com, Sep 2018 - Dec 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Lenskart is India’s leading eyewear online portal with the objective to offer disruptive and one of its kind service to consumers. Lenskart currently operates 700 stores in India. □ Revamping of Product description page, category screen, OTP verificationView, Coating screen, record power screen, User capture screen, □ Implementation of Continuous Integration using Xcode Server □ Implementation of grid layout, Dynamic Product Listing Page Achievements : □ Won developer of the quarter for Q1 2019 □ Won best feature award for Review and rating in Q1 2019

Education

Engineer's Degree, Computer Science, Visvesvaraya Technological University