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# Shailesh Chandavar on Tal

## 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

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