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Gaurav Thakkar

@gauravthakkar

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I am a mobile applications specialist building high-performance native and hybrid apps.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek a hands-on mobile engineering role where I can lead architecture, improve app performance and security, implement modern Android/Flutter solutions, and collaborate with designers to deliver polished, scalable products.

I am a mobile applications specialist with 4.5 years of experience building native and hybrid apps, most recently as an SDE-2 leading small teams and driving architectural decisions. I delivered measurable improvements — achieving 99.96% crash-free users, reducing recompositions by up to 90%, and cutting modular script sizes by 50%.

I focus on modern Android practices such as Kotlin, Coroutines and Jetpack Compose, and prioritize security, performance and deployment speed through server-driven features and CI/CD. I contribute to open-source templates, mentor developers, and standardize design systems to improve developer-designer collaboration.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

SDE-2 Android

Current

BookMyShow

May 2023 - Present (2 years 4 months)

Led a team of 3–5 developers, re-architected the post-transaction flow to reduce recompositions by up to 90% and eliminated tech debt to improve smoothness for millions of users. Migrated Gradle to Kotlin DSL, reduced Java by 30%, achieved 99.96% crash-free users, resolved ANRs affecting ~10K devices, and cut deployment time from 3 days to 3 seconds.

Kotlin Flow Hilt Jetpack Compose CI CD

Software Engineer (Android)

Wednesday Solutions

Jan 2022 - May 2023 (1 year 4 months)

Re-wrote Rapido’s Android app as part of a 7-person team using Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, and Flows; the app now handles ~1M rides per day. Published open-source Android and Flutter templates (1k+ stars) and established CI/CD pipelines to accelerate delivery.

Jetpack Compose Kotlin Coroutines Flow Flutter CI CD Open Source

Android Developer

PEOCIT Software Solutions Pvt Ltd

Mar 2021 - Jan 2022 (10 months)

Built a theming engine used across five 5-star apps for 100+ banks and integrated billing and credit-card SDKs to support enterprise clients. Implemented a token-generation backend in Spring Boot on Google Cloud and established CI/CD pipelines for faster deliveries.

Android SDK Integration Spring Boot Google Cloud CI CD Tokenization Payments

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

MIT School of Engineering, MIT World Peace University

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science

2017 - 2021

Grade: First Class With Distinction

Activities and societies: Ranked 3rd in a batch of 500; received University Scroll of Honour for projects with DRDO.

Completed Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science at MIT School of Engineering, Pune (2017–2021). Graduated First Class With Distinction and ranked 3rd out of 500; received the University Scroll of Honour for collaborative projects with DRDO.