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Akshat Tailang

Akshat Tailang

Delhi

Summary

Innovative, meticulous and results-driven Android Engineer with 9+ years of experience in designing, developing and maintaining high-performance mobile applications namely Wynk Music app (MAU 80M+), Airtel Android IPTV Launcher and Times Prime app (1M+ Downloads). Proficient in Kotlin, Jetpack, Android SDK, Restful APIs, and modern developmental tools. Adept at troubleshooting, optimising code, and ensuring scalability and efficiency. Also experienced with managing a team of 5+ young and talented software developers.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Principal Engineer

Airtel Digital Ltd
Gurugram
11.2021 - Current
  • Airtel Android TV Launcher app - For Airtel's IPTV setup box, led the design and development of the Android app from scratch using modern tech - Jetpack, Compose, Kotlin, MVVM/MVI.
  • Wynk Music Ads - Managed the end-to-end integration of various ad formats, including native and programmatic banners, interstitials, audio, video, and app open ads, within the Android app. Additionally, oversaw the successful implementation of ads on the iOS app.
  • Coordinated the integration of ad mediation partners, including InMobi, Liftoff, Facebook, Amazon, and others.
  • Regular monitoring of Ad vitals - Consistently monitored key ad performance metrics such as fill rate, match rate, render rate, and revenue and achieved a significant improvement in render rate from 30% to 90% through live fetching and podded ads. This optimization contributed to a substantial increase in overall ad revenue, growing from 21 crore to 23 crore monthly over the past three years.
  • Wynk Music Player, Listing and Discovery Revamp - Overhauled the user interface using Jetpack Compose, Media 3 and Updated designs.
  • Player screen revamped from a static page to a Vertical Pager and Video loop view screen, which lead to 20-30% increase on User active Time and Stream per user.
  • Listing screen and User created playlist update from xml to Compose UI with more efficient layout and animations. User create playlist journey improved with new widget to quickly add recommended songs led to 10% increase creation of personalised playlist by users.
  • Key focus on improving Android vitals i.e.crash and ANR rate, reducing memory leaks, using tools like Android Profiler, Leak Canary, Charles, Chukker, Watchdog.

Senior Android Developer

Times Internet Lid
Gurugram
06.2016 - 10.2021
  • Times Prime Android Native Application: Developed and managed the subscription and Lifestyle app with features like onboarding, login and authentication via Facebook, Google and Mobile, discovery, search, filters, deep-links, analytics, push notifications, payment gateway integrations etc.
  • Native Android Payment Gateway SDK: Established Gradle based SDK for payments with features such as PayU Native Integration, Recurring Credit/Debit card payments, ATM Pin and Native OTP, Netbanking, UPI Intent payments, Netbanking payments, Wallets Integration Payzapp, Mobikwik and paytm. Also integrated the said SDK with 10M+ downloads application like TOI.

Education

Bachelor of Technology -

Institute of Technology and Management
Gurugram, India
01.2016

Primary and Secondary Education -

Vivekanand School
New Delhi, DL
01.2012

Skills

  • Native Android
  • Kotlin
  • Jetpack
  • Compose
  • MVVM Architecture
  • Java
  • XML
  • Gradle
  • Maven
  • Jenkins
  • Android Profiler
  • Leak Canary
  • Charles
  • Chukker
  • Watchdog
  • Kotlin Multi-platform

Certification

Android Developer Nanodegree, Udacity distance learning program, 06/17

Hobbies and Interests

  • Watching movies and documentaries
  • Singing
  • Cricket and Foosball champion

Languages

  • English, Proficient, C2
  • Hindi, Proficient, C2

Projects

  • Airtel Xtream OTT App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.airtel.xstream.tvapp
  • Wynk Music App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bsbportal.music
  • TOI News App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.toi.reader.activities
  • Times Prime Subscription App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.timesprime.timesprimeandroid

Timeline

Principal Engineer

Airtel Digital Ltd
11.2021 - Current

Senior Android Developer

Times Internet Lid
06.2016 - 10.2021

Bachelor of Technology -

Institute of Technology and Management

Primary and Secondary Education -

Vivekanand School

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