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Experience
Vel Labs
Bengaluru, India
Forward Deployed Engineer
Feb 2026 – Present
- Core developer of Sola, an AI companion app on a single Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform codebase shipping to Android and iOS (Decompose, Koin, Ktor).
- Owned the real-time 3D Unity companion via Unity as a Library: built the KMP bridge module, a versioned message contract, thermal-aware frame rate and Sentry telemetry; removed a 3.5 s freeze and raised fps from 21 to 29 on low-end devices.
- Set up performance engineering with Macrobenchmark, Baseline Profiles and Perfetto KPI budgets, cutting cold-start time by about 25% on average.
- Closed 22 production crash, ANR and hang issues through Sentry root-cause analysis, moving SDK init and dependency injection off the main thread.
- Built chat and WebRTC voice calls: paging, optimistic updates, swipe-to-reply, realtime reactions (Ably) and a shared-element photo viewer.
- Shipped ringing reminder calls (Android Telecom), FCM push with deep links, RevenueCat and UPI payments, and funnel analytics.
Brick and Bolt
Bengaluru, India
Software Development Engineer - I (Android)
Nov 2024 – Jan 2026
- Built a Server-Driven UI referral flow for the Customer and Professional Android apps, streamlining lead generation and conversion tracking.
- Integrated the Google Play Integrity API to block unauthorized installs and rooted devices.
- Built team management with role assignment in the contractor app, reducing manual coordination by about 25%.
- Built Server-Driven UI components for the Customer app and a Flutter internal dashboard, enabling UI updates without app releases.
Projects
Pvot Phone & PvotLib | Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Dagger/KSP
- Moving an open-source AOSP dialer to Jetpack Compose: migrated 10 screens, in-call UI and 8 dialogs, removed 34k lines of dead code, and added caller screening and missed-call reminders.
- Contributed about 35 components and a glass surface system (WCAG 4.5:1 contrast) to the PvotLib Compose design system.
Rocket: Mobile Performance Toolkit | Kotlin, Swift, Macrobenchmark, Perfetto
Vel Labs (internal)
- Built a tool that benchmarks Android and iOS builds on real devices, reporting 54 Android and 12 iOS KPIs across 6 journeys against a baseline, driven by a YAML flow DSL.
- Its analysis grew Baseline Profile coverage by 48.8% and showed notification launches took 2.1 s, not 0.7 s.
Technical Skills
- Languages: Kotlin, Java, Swift, C#, Dart, C++
- Frameworks: Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP), Compose Multiplatform, Jetpack Compose, Decompose, Koin, Ktor, Coroutines/Flow, Unity as a Library (UaaL), Flutter, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Room, Retrofit
- Tools: Macrobenchmark, Baseline Profiles, Perfetto, Sentry, Firebase, GitHub Actions, detekt, Gradle, Xcode, Postman, Figma
Achievements
- Smart India Hackathon 2023 Winner: Won for problem statement 1286 — incentivization of legal service providers and client onboarding platform.
- HackerzStreet 1.0 — IEEE, Manipal University Jaipur: Secured 1st Runner-Up in a national hackathon. Built Android and web-based e-commerce solutions for local vendors.
Education
Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore
Karnataka, India
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering
2020 – 2024