Bachelor’s Degree

Master's degree

- Collaborated with the Bluetooth Software Development team, focusing on Bluetooth Stack for Android OS (AOSP).
- Implemented and enhanced Bluetooth profiles, including AVRCP, MAP, and HID.
- Successfully developed a service layer for AVRCP 1.6 CoverArt within a tight one-month development cycle.
- Engineered a utility code that allowed testing of BLE-only APIs through a mobile app via reverse engineering of AOSP code.
- Provided crucial support for the migration of the Bluetooth stack from Android N to Android M codebase.

Tech Intern

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mcafee.safeconnect.android

- Played a key role as a Software Engineer in Android, specialising in mobile app development for McAfee's Safe Connect, a security app providing secure network access through a VPN service.
- Created robust VPN interfaces for the Android end-product, ensuring seamless integration and optimal user experience.
- Developed a custom network state-machine to support Auto-start VPN and Activity-log features, enhancing functionality and user convenience.
- Implemented support for Android 8 notification changes via SDK integration, ensuring compatibility with the latest platform updates.

Android Software Engineer - Safe Connect (VPN client)

Software Engineer in the Developer Experience team, solving app certification and publishing problems.
- Contributed to the design and Development of AutoFailure framework that is failure case agnostic to automate developer communication for App testing failures, helped to increase ZTP by ~6.5%
- Successfully reduced False Negatives of static testing by up to 12%, significantly minimizing the manual efforts required for validating apps.
- Designed and implemented window manipulation for automatic testing of Android Apps on Windows, enabling efficient testing of approximately 200K apps using a unified framework.
- Improved the user experience (UX) for the promotion portal on the App Store retail page and Developer portal, enhancing engagement and visibility.
- Optimized queries and data retrieval time for App details by 50%, resulting in improved performance and response time.
- Mentored an intern, providing guidance and support, and actively contributing to project planning in an Agile

Software Development Engineer 2

- Spearheaded the development of a custom home security solution for an ISP partner, leveraging a comprehensive tech stack including Python, Go, Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB, Kafka, AWS, and Terraform.
- Streamlined partner-specific changes by 50% through the implementation of a core solution that generalized custom modifications.
- Resolved critical subscription failure cases, effectively mitigating DDOS-like attacks from routers and ensuring the security and stability of the system.
- Designed and implemented a scalable custom feature-set module to seamlessly support various router models and versions, enabling broader compatibility and ease of integration.
- Optimized the data flow design, resulting in a remarkable reduction of up to 40% in DB storage and network calls for the Router API, significantly improving efficiency and performance.

Backend Software Engineer - Secure Home Platform

- Worked as a Software Engineer for the App Scanner team, utilizing technologies such as Python, Flask, XML, MySQL, and MongoDB.
- Implemented optimizations that significantly increased the throughput of the app scanners, reducing repeat scanning of Android apps by up to 5000 per day.
- Designed and implemented a robust pipe-filter service, employing pluggable codes, to efficiently process APK data.
- Helped MySQL fix trigger bug: https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=87371
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and optimal performance of the app scanning system.

Backend Software Engineer - Apps scanner

Building a platform for serving billions of SMS messages for Marketing Cloud customers.
- Led onboarding of new SMS aggregator for LATM countries serving ~3 billion messages per annum.
- Solving Infra issues from migrating services from Private Data Center to Public Cloud (AWS).
- Mentoring MTS for growing to the next level.

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Software Engineer

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