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Strategic Performance Leadership:Led a team to enhance app stability, achieving notable improvements in Android ANR rates and maintaining high crash-free rates across platforms, setting new standards in app reliability.Advanced Playback and UI Performance Initiatives:Orchestrated key initiatives to elevate streaming quality and significantly reduce.

Strategic Platform Launch and Partnership Integration:Led the successful launch of the Discover platform, integrating diverse and high-profile content partners including Wynk Music, Xstream, Ekank, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met Museum), NASA, Editorji, Qshala, Twitter, and in-house content. This initiative significantly broadened the platform’s.

Innovative Product Development:Spearheaded the development of Multi-tenant Whitelabeled OTT Apps, creating a flexible and scalable framework that allows rapid customization and deployment for various partners. This initiative significantly streamlined operations and enhanced the service offerings.Automation and Efficiency Enhancement:Led the automation of.

Leadership and Team Management: * Led a diverse team of iOS engineers, across multiple projects including Airtel Xstream, DTH, AdTech, and Wynk Stage, enhancing the team’s effectiveness and cohesiveness. * Developed and implemented engineering practices tailored for the teams, significantly enhancing team performance and project delivery.Strategic.

Gurgaon, India

• Worked as an acting Lead and owned the product to deliver improvements enhancing the overall experience of the app.
• Contributed towards the architecture of Airtel TV app which helped in decoupling the code and making it better for new feature addition.
• Implemented prefetching algorithm using functionally asynchronous concepts of NSOperation classes.
• Improved and maintained the core of the app namely HTTP Live Streaming(HLS)
• Implemented Custom LRU and cookie authentication to improve the startup time of streams
• Improved the crash free sessions from 98.6 to 99.98 solving critical threading issues.

Gurgaon, India

• Developed reusable UI components in the app, which helped the team reduce the code for componentcreation on multiple screens
• Implemented the timely activation of sale event offers in the app, which was one of its core features.
• Optimized Juice feature which helped in increasing FPS, thereby improving user experience.
• Ran Jabong Accelerator program to get the team familiarised with new iOS features and best practices.
• Ramped up new engineers for iOS development.

Gurgaon, India

• Redesigned the architecture of ZDRemote application which helped in decoupling the code and making itbetter for reusability and scalable for new feature addition
• Developed the Core Module Wlan of the ZDRemote project.
• Optimized the Core Data code for pagination in SWIPE.
• Wrote stubs for unit testing the network calls
• Built static library for common components, helped in segregating the common components
• Rebuilt the text editor with the new TextKit in Notes.