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title: "Vivek Kartha - Staff Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Vivek Kartha on Tal

## Headline

Staff Engineer \| Cross\-Team Technical Leadership \| Product Strategy & Delivery \| Systems Thinker \| KYX \| IAM \| AI

## About

Staff engineer with a track record of leading complex, cross\-functional work in fintech including driving product decisions\. I’ve driven KYC and identity integrations end to end, worked across mobile and backend, and consistently acted as the person teams come to when things are ambiguous or stuck\. I use AI to apply my systems thinking across the org, helping people make better decisions and move faster\. I care less about the stack and more about making the right thing happen\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## Work experience

Staff Engineer at Tide, Aug 2026 \- Present · 2 mos, Remote

Advanced Senior Software Engineer at Tide, Aug 2024 \- Aug 2026 · 2 yrs 1 mo, India, \* Engineering Identity & Access Management on Mobile \* Drove and delivered Tide’s Central KYC initiative to reduce live\-agent video verification costs, remove onboarding friction, and improve Day 0 conversion

Senior Software Engineer at Tide, Mar 2022 \- Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos, India, Building mobile applications for Tide Business Banking \- UK, EU & India \* Delivered SimBinding based onboarding and recovery which reduced the drop in onboarding funnel by 30% \* Delivered cross\-platform push notifications system \* Worked on Tide's UPI initiatives \* Engineering Identity & Access Management and enhancing security for the Tide apps

Senior Software Engineer at McAfee, Mar 2021 \- Mar 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo, India, \* Agile development \* Onsite/offshore coordination \* Android with Kotlin \* VPN and Safe WiFi \* Malware detection and removal engine for Mobile apps \* Unit testing

Technical Lead \- Android at Wipro Limited, Nov 2018 \- Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Feature Team Lead \- Responsible for Android development and leading a feature team, as part of a telecom team spread globally\. Client: Telstra Australia \* Led the delivery of the world's first native in\-app eSIM management experience \* Following Agile methodologies \* Onsite/offshore coordination \* Best practices like proper test coverage and clean code \* Jenkins CI/CD, SonarQube, Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence \* Development of eSim profile handling \* Developed Support module for the Telstra app \* Telecom domain expertise

Senior Mobile Developer at MobME Wireless Solutions Limited, Jan 2017 \- Dec 2018 · 2 yrs, Cochin Area, India, Fintech \- Planned and developed an Analytics library in Kotlin \(Android\), with a modular and testable codebase Developed a mobile chat SDK in Kotlin to automate customer support for banks \- Product planning \(Compaz \-Mobme\) \- Behavioral analytics SDK \- Heads Compaz Android library \- Development, unit tests, maintenance and architecture\. \- Design Patterns \- Unit tests\(JUnit,Mockito\) \- Encryption \- Kotlin \- RxJava2 \- OkHttp \- Library Development \- Golang \- MongoDb \- Jetpack Library

Android Developer at Focaloid Technologies Private Limited, Jul 2014 \- Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Kochi, • Worked on Material Design\. • Published multiple apps to the PlayStore\. • Worked with Fragments and adaptive layouts\. • Project time estimates • Knows Crashlytics, Google, CleverTap and Mixpanel analytics, Google Maps, FusedLocations API and Push notifications using FCM \(and other third\-party libraries\)

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Computer Engineering, Mahatma Gandhi University \(MGU\), Kottayam

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