Utkarsh Saxena
SWE@Unacademy • Ex- PW, Groww • Demystifying Mobile Experience at Scale
Bengaluru
3+ years of work experience
Jun 20265 mosPresent
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
● Implemented end-to-end, 4-step Onboarding Flow revamp via Jetpack Compose and making reusable UI Components thus, redesigning signup, profile, education, and study-preference journeys with 30k successful signups and improved onboarding completion by 7.35% and reduced drop-offs by 14%.
● Decreased app size by 2.9mb and decreased crash rate from 3.56% to 2.23% and resolving priority production bugs for the app.
● Led the migration to Android16(API Level36) ensuring Google Play’s TargetSDK requirements.
● Rewrote the Refer-Earn feature using Jetpack Compose for the new iteration, implementing referral sharing, milestone rewards, leaderboard, and referral tracking, driving over 80K referral users, 1k signups, 120 purchases, and 20L revenue.
● Rewrote Daily Streaks feature for learners, driving 140K+ streak interactions, 64K+ learning-resumption actions, 28K+ milestone views, and 24K+ milestone continuations within a month.
Feb 20265 mosJun 2026
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Organizational restructuring impacted the role; successfully qualified for an internal SDE-2 position that was later put on hold.
Work Areas / Responsibilities :
● Ownership for two apps: PiBookParent(ReactNative) and PiFocusStudent(Kotlin).
● Optimized the app size by reducing APK footprint from 70MB to 35MB, improving install success rates, download time, and compatibility on low-end devices.
● Implemented 16KB page size compliance across the PiBookParent app, ensuring Google Play policy readiness.
● Integrated DNS blocker to enable controlled access behavior in the student app, managed via parent app.
● Resolved high-impact UI crashes including RetryableMountException and empty state navigation bugs, in the videocall flow for parent app.
Oct 20241 yr 4 mosJan 2026
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Work Areas / Responsibilities :
● WorkIndia Candidate App is one of India’s largest blue-collar recruitment portals, with over 20 million app installs.
● Revamped the Candidate Onboarding page, driving improvements across key funnel metrics: +1.6pp Calls+WA/DAU, +2.8pp Job Limit Fulfilment, and +0.6pp T0 Activation, while maintaining retention close to estimates despite seasonality (25.1% vs 22.7%).
● Built the in-app Resume Builder improving resume adoption (+6.3pp) and driving higher profile updates (+4.5pp), enabling faster employer decisions and more candidate unlocks.
● Implemented Voice Search to reduce typing friction for low-literacy users, improving job discovery and eliminating 17K weekly zero-result searches.
● Implemented WorkMode feature to show available workmodes for jobs to the candidates and skills selection BottomSheet in the candidate job application flow.
● Implemented a force-update mechanism using a non-dismissible bottom sheet, targeting approximately 5.9K DAUs on outdated app versions.
● Improved the Main List feature and visibility of Job cards, resulting in a 6.5% increase in Job Views and a 3% increase in call/WhatsApp retention.
● Increased Custom Job Titles usage by 8% and enhanced overall onboarding by 6% by introducing new job titles and a generic bottom sheet, leading to a 3.5% increase in Leads/DAU.
● Developed the Candidate Unsubscribe flow across all channels, achieving over 1K user engagements and enabling more than 500 successful unsubscriptions.
● Improved app stability by reducing frozen frames from 7.45% to 4.38%, fixing ANRs, and performing codebase cleanup of around 30k lines in 5 phases.
● Removed unused package dependencies and did efficient migration (Babel, Webpack5, EsLint, NodeVersion Upgradation) for WorkIndia RevampWeb an employer side product.
Feb 20249 mosOct 2024
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Team : BGV > Engineering > Android > Onboarding
Features: Signature, Nominee, Email & Mobile Change, Account Reset, Account Deletion.
Work Areas / Responsibilities :
● Accomplished seamless feature integration in the Onboarding Journey by implementing key features as:
Signature, Nominee Addition, Email/Mobile verification, Geolocation, LoginLimitPerDevice, Reset User Account across various device types and screen sizes.
● Efficiently matched the design mockups through given Figma by utilizing the in-house Mint Design system and also provided insights for design enhancements from a technical standpoint.
● Taking ownership of features, from design to implementation and to deployment. This ensures seamless execution and best delivery for high quality features.
● Collaborating with product teams and stakeholders to understand and analyze software requirements thus translating them into technical specifications.
● Enhancing features performance by collaborative discussions with QA team for bug fixes.
● Participating in code reviews to ensure good code quality, design principles and its maintainability.
● Maintaining technical documentation for the features for improving quality and maintainability of the software product.
● Contributing to agile development sprints, RCA calls and daily standups.
Mar 20237 mosSep 2023
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Utkarsh’s AI Stack
Education
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science & Engineering
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University
20194 yrs2023
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