Work
Work.
14 years, four companies, one long argument with Android.
Careem
The everything app of the Middle East · Dubai
Aug 2017 – Present
Senior Software Engineering Manager, Mobile Foundations
Jan 2025 – Present
Lead Mobile Foundations: app performance, crash rate, developer tooling, and the Server-Driven UI platform.
Run mobile foundations as a product for the teams building Food, Ride and Pay.
Champion AI across the mobile platform: an AI-ready codebase, a design-to-component pipeline, and a bot that answers questions about the codebase.
Senior Software Engineering Manager, Food
Jan 2023 – Dec 2024
Led a geo-distributed engineering org building food ordering for millions of users across the Middle East.
First team at Careem to adopt Server-Driven UI, and a core contributor to the platform's architecture.
Software Engineering Manager, Food Experience
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Built and scaled the Food Experience mobile team from the ground up. Owned the food ordering journey on iOS and Android.
Software Engineering Manager, Mobile App Infrastructure
Jul 2021 – Dec 2021
Led the team optimising ride supply for large events, and launched it for Expo 2020 Dubai on time.
Senior Software Engineer
Aug 2017 – Jul 2021
Core Android engineer on the driver app. Led its re-architecture into a modular app.
Built the integration between Hala and Dubai Taxi hardware meters over USB, from protocol design to launch.
Invasystems
Nov 2016 – Jul 2017
Senior Software Engineer
Tech lead for the mobile team: architecture, design and delivery of enterprise mobile products.
CarIQ
Oct 2014 – Oct 2016
Software Engineer, Mobile
Built Android apps that talk to car telematics devices over Bluetooth, plus the BLE SDK and state machine library underneath them.
Mobien Technologies
Sep 2012 – Oct 2014
Software Engineer
Android development across enterprise and consumer products. Three levels in two years.
(Education)
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Telecommunications · Pune University
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