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Bal sikandar
technical lead
android
react native
react
Bal sikandar

Bal sikandar

Technical lead at Zupee. Previously Twin Health | Ex-OkCredit| Programmer | Problem solver| Open-source enthusiast

Work History

Technical Lead

Zupee

Jul 2022 -  Present

Gurgaon

• Worked on improving app stability and improved crash-free rate from 98.5 to 99.7% • Brought down App hang by 50%(observed on Bugsnag) • Working with a team of 5 people and ensuring timely delivery of features. • Brought in practices like Dev testing, Technical documentation, and Code review on the editor which resulted in reducing bug count in Testing by 70% from QAs. • Worked with the team to launch a new game that now contributes 25% of total Gameplay and GMV. • Improved memory leak issues by profiling and fixing all of the issues to give a seamless User experience for multiple gameplays in a session, which increased average gameplay per session by 20% and saw an increase of 25% Gameplay per day.

Senior Software Engineer Android

Twin health

Oct 2021 -  Jul 2022

Bangalore

• Working on Video, voice, and Chat communication. • Developed an Sdk for Chat using the Twilio Conversation Framework. • Working as IC for my Communications POD.

Senior Android Developer

Shuttl

Oct 2020 -  Jul 2021

Gurgaon

• Launched an MVP for Ride Booking in Intercity Bus service with over > 1000 bookings in the first 15 days. • Built and launched Auto auto-booking app from scratch.

Senior Software Engineer(Android)

OkCredit

Jul 2019 -  Sep 2020

Banaglore

• Worked on payment for Merchants on OkCredit • Working with MVI and RxJava • Scaled payments feature from a couple of thousand to a million users • Increased retention • Added MVI support for Dialogs • Improved code reuse and followed SOLID, DRY, and Boy Scout rules for best coding practices. • Added up to 70% of unit tests in the payments module

Team Lead Android

CarWale

Jan 2018 -  Jul 2019

Navi Mumbai

• Lead a team of five highly motivated people • Improved Notification delivery rate on Chinese-manufactured devices • Added Jenkins for automated and Continuous Integration. • Using Kotlin to ship features • Code duplication and other anomalies improved using SonarQube • Unit testing integration to project and coverage increased • Upgraded GA to FA, linked fabric to Firebase console • Working on react native for cross-platform development • Integrated SonarQube to improve code quality and redundancy • Worked on various features with the latest tech and design patterns • Developed a library, Robin, for application testing which is currently open-source. • Improved application vital parameters by tracking the right parameters and wrote an article for the same on medium. • Improved design and architecture of the app • Worked on app stability improving ANR, crash rates • Explored Flutter for native development

Android Developer

Bobble AI

Aug 2016 -  Jan 2018

Delhi

• Worked with All Android & Google APIs and have used several third party libraries for Networking, Database operations and Image processing. • Worked with MVP/MVC architectures and Java Design-patterns. • Multithreading for performance improvement. • Debug Features - Developed features to enable and empower developers and other team members to observe, debug and report issues. • Reduced crash rate and developed a library to capture and report crashes while development. • Worked on Android IME(Keyboard) and developed several features to user interests. • On time delivery of features. • Focused on clean code architectures, code redability and code documentation. • Worked with UI/UX team, Research team and other teams to deliver enrich features. • Worked with multiple image & Gif processing library for faster and smooth loading of resources, enabled caching to save user data. • Profiling app for memory and battery consumption optimisations. • Improved frame drops and ANRs. • Reduced Apk size. • Worked on Bobble(SDK) to deliver to our partners.

Communities (3)

GDG New Delhi

55652 members

GDG Cloud New Delhi

49234 members

WTM Delhi

19060 members