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Seattle, Wa, Us

- Designed and implemented key features for Astro Mobility domain within Android middleware applications including active user engagement optimization, privacy mode enablement, and support for 1P and 2P skills development.- Improved the stability of the Android motion application by tracking and optimizing memory and CPU usage, implementing internal heartbeat monitors for faster recovery, and optimizing main threads. Successfully reduced max memory usage by 75%.- Optimized the Mobile APK release process as the Operational Excellence Core Representative by automating workflows for the entire org, reducing release time from approximately 3 hours to just a few minutes.- Achieved certification as a Security Certifier at Amazon by successfully security-certifying a Tier-1 service, ensuring compliance with production schedules and organizational security standards.

Chicago, Il, Us

- Led the Consumer Conversion vertical of the Groupon iOS Mobile Application team of 18 engineers across multiple geographic locations for key deliverables in Deal Page, Checkout, and Voucher pages.- Conducted A/B Tests, and used the results to globally launch 100% crash-free Deal Details Architecture Redesign consumed by 400k active users every day.- Created Kibana analytics dashboards to monitor redesigned Deal page performance, track purchase rates and user engagement of customers.- Drove discussions with cross-functional Engineering, Product, Design, QA, and business partners to deliver large scale compliance projects like Apple Sign-In, and 3DS2 authentication protocol based payment solutions.- Onboarded engineers into the Mobile team and mentored them in various feature development work in addition to sharing Mobile Architecture Design updates via tech talks, and presentations with the broader mobile team of 50 engineers, and 30 interns across the organization.

Chicago, Il, Us

- Collaborated with the Mobile Architecture team to build a new modularized sustainable architecture thereby establishing a foundation for the future of mobile development at Groupon with emphasis on stability, and ease of maintenance.- Implemented Groupon iOS Deal Page using the new architecture by developing reusable immutable views, pure functions for Business rules with Data-Driven Testing, auto-generated HTTP clients, and data models using Swagger.- Developed several key voucher redemption features such as Easy Exchange, Buy and Link, and Credit Card Linked Offer in Groupon app by incorporating auto layout in views.Incorporated Lottie iOS framework to display animations on the Savings Details page for the consumer.- Engineered Groupon HTML library pod that employs functional constructs to parse, and manipulate HTML content using SwiftSoup library for easier integration of WebViews into the Groupon app.- Integrated support for Mastercard and American Express cards into Groupon’s Card Linked Offers program with forward compatibility support for additional payment methods.- Empowered Quality Assurance & Automation Engineering teams with detailed documentation of various features. Collaborated and devised a testing strategy for 1800 test cases thereby shipping the feature on schedule with high quality.

Chicago, Il, Us

- Architected solution for implementing Fault Resiliency as a service for Groupon infrastructure to investigate whether backend services meet expected target SLA during peak load times or reduced server capacity.- Implemented Topology Service using Java, Dropwizard, and Neo4j GraphDB to extract metadata of services and their dependencies to estimate the impact of injecting a fault in service.- Developed Anomaly Detector Service as a plugin using Java to monitor, and automatically alert impacted service teams with reports of issues.- Defined an adapter protocol to read metrics from a given source, and implemented Splunk adapter for reading metrics from Splunk.- Created data models, and Base Dropwizard starter project with support for archiving and releasing using Maven plugin.- Experimented by injecting Faults in a controlled environment for ~25 services on pre-production, and production environments. Enabled Groupon’s AppOps, and service teams to use the results, and improve the resiliency of services.

Chicago, Il, Us

- Developed, and presented a unified testing framework for Breadcrumb Point of Sale backend services using Java and AspectJ to auto-generate service requests from helper functions to enable easier addition of automation test cases. - Implemented Point of Sale service clients, and models to be used for both backend and frontend automation for automatic synchronization of the testing platform, and the service applications. - Increased functionality of Groupon’s in-house Java automation client library by adding support for 15 iOS UI components.

Fairfax, Virginia , Us

Grading Assignments and Exams of the subject 'Computer Architecture' that focuses on the Instruction Set Architecture and the performance of a computer system with respect to the various components in the system. Also held office hours to guide students with their work and help them understand the subject.Awarded Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant award for Spring 2010

Noida, Up, In

Assisted engineers with the troubleshooting of the hardware and software, offered suggestions to customers to solve the issues.

Ms, Computer Science

B.E, Computer Science