Adnan A M

Solving modern mobility needs for millions of users

• Led the rewrite of the customer app(only mobility app in India to have 100% Compose) to improve cycle time by 40%, provide a rich user experience & delight end users.
• Architected the customer app to solve for challenges of scale and problems of a dynamic realtime shifting state thus reducing the number of support queries & cost by 70%.
• Built & shipped a rewrite of the app without risking business by maintaining both the new app(Compose based) & old app(XML based) in a single binary.
• Enabled business/product to experiment much faster using Server Driven UI & Web UI, helping run numerous experiments leading to an increase in conversions by 4%.
• Built auxiliary Metro Ticketing/Rental web flows(React, Node) to unlock new sources of revenue for the firm & improve user acquisition.
• Built an internal mobile observability framework to capture logs, events & tracking info, reducing our Analytics Provider cost by $8,600/month.

Making healthcare more accessible & transparent

• Responsible for rewriting core audio recording module(Kotlin) for better stability & reliability.
• Improved app startup load time by 13% by off-loading initializations.
• Improved conversion rate by 5% by reducing friction in the user flow.
• Worked across the board on website(React), mobile apps(React Native/Kotlin) & backend(Node) to empower the team to ship features faster and meet their deadlines.
• Played a key role in optimizing backend queries(Firebase) leading to a savings of $1100/month for the firm.
• Actively helped the firm in defining their culture & implement remote work across 3 countries/timezones.

• Responsible for setting up processes to improve the team's delivery by 45%.
• Introduced unit testing across iOS & Android effectively reducing QA cycles by 30%.
• Implemented bi-weekly release cycle to have better predictability & estimates leading to a 20% reduction in the delivery time.
• Mentoring team members & setting up a career guidance/improvement path for each individual.
• Improve crash free user sessions from 84.3% to 99.2% by fixing issues.
• Improved user experience on the app for various screens resulting in reduced friction while checkout.

Solving complex logistic problems while maintaining the desired service level and reducing delivery costs.

• Improved performance of the delivery app to reduce the cost/delivery by 23%.
• Support offline mode for the delivery app.
• Increase drops/driver by 8% by improving the scan time, implementing In-App chat support and offloading non-essential work.
• Convinced RedMart to move to Kotlin for all new mobile code written across the organization.
• Migrated the existing project to Jetpack & Oreo single-handedly.

You know how you can book your seats/tickets to all events/movies from the comfort of your couch ? I stayed up late nights to make that happen.

• Responsible for hiring & setting up a mobile team of 40+ developers.
• Design and Architect the entire app from ground up leading to an increase in the conversion ratio by 30% .
• Proactively solved problems like scalability, concurrency and memory optimizations .
• Lead the effort to solve challenges like Multidex, reducing Overdraw, memory footprint and battery consumption .
• Engineered solutions with a focus on performance, with the philosophy where every second and every megabyte counts .
• Reduced the app load/startup time by 20% .
• Developed scripts to automate day to day builds/tasks and reduce build time, which saved roughly about 15,000 hours of developer time.
• Broke off code into modular reusable units leading to a very clean scalable/reusable project .

Made lives easier by letting you stay in touch with your loved ones at a fraction of the cost of International calling.

• Sole owner of the entire Android app( tlkn - VoiP calling ).
• Delved into the wild unknowns of core JNI layer to integrate C/C++ libraries for VoiP .
• Implemented custom logic for SIP protocols to improve performance of WebRTC .
• Created an engaging app for one of its kind digital payphone on the Mumbai International Airport .