Gaurav Thakkar Email & Phone Number

Mumbai, Mh, In

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

My responsibilities here as an Android Engineer involve going the extra mile for customer satisfactionIn this process, I have- Lead the migration from Butterknife to DataBinding across the team to reduce the app size- Lead and owned the migration of app to Android 14, and the latest update of compose, leading to a performance improvement by about 80%- Played a vital role in migration of the app from a single monolith to a multi modular by feature architecture, by streamlining dependency management. Streamling movement to MVI and Clean Architecture, from MVP and other MVx solutions. Worked on Version Catalogs- Worked on BMS Stream which is BookMyShow's OTT product, involving tech stack like ExoPlayer, Media3 etc Helped in developing knowledge of various streaming protocols and technolgies like HLS, DASH, Widevine etc- Mentored many junior folks in the team on a day to day basis, helping them with system design, and conceptual things

Pune, Maharashtra, India

As a Software Engineer, I am responsible for:- Creating Wednesday's Open Source Templates of Flutter and Android- Playing a key role in Migration to Jetpack Compose, also setup a CI/CD pipeline using Github Actions to ease deployment to PlayStore.- Using Flutter to completely re-architect a Mobile App.- Playing a key role in re-architecting a legacy codebase (10+ years old) to the Modern Android Development Stack ( Compose, MVVM), paying key attention to great animations, and pixel perfect UIs with E2E testingAs a part of this role, I have developed expertise in Android, Flutter and iOS development.

- Worked on Peocit's core banking based Android Apps which are actively used by more than 100 banks across the country- Helped to migrate from a no architecture to MVVM, Google's recommended architecture for modern android apps.- Deployed a token generation wrapper written in Spring on Gcloud. Helped integrating various SDKs related to billing, credit card etc in the app - Built a theming engine which is used by 100+ clients of the companyAdditionally also set foundation for new apps by contributing to a CI/CD pipeline involving GitLab and Jenkins

Developing their Cross Platform Flutter App from scratchThe app involved a UI like Inshorts. Bloc pattern was used to get the data from the internet. The backend used was FirebaseI setup the foundation of the new app, to be highly scalable and testable in a short span of timeI also worked on making the admin portal (in React) which helps to update the data in the backend

Pune Area, India

Built a chatbot for internal communication for DRDO using WebSocketsThis project involved learning NodeJS, Docker and some ReactJS as well

Worked for Hachimichi's own product GAZE and helped them develop an Android AppI built two apps, one for the client to view the ads posted and the other one to control the data on the server. I also setup a custom schedule to update the data on the server at specific intervals in the data. The most challenging part was building a custom pager view with bottom dots

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Computer Engineering

- First Class with Distinction (8.10 CGPA) - Third In Class - University Scroll of Honour for Internship with DRDO

Hsc, 82%

95%

- Adjudged the best scholar of the year for five years in a row (Class 5-10) - Actively involved in Quiz Competitions - Represented.