Karan
Experience
Software Developer
Zolve Innovation
Bengaluru, India
Improved app stability to 99.99% crash-free sessions by proactively monitoring production ANRs and crashes, optimizing memory usage, and resolving critical performance bottlenecks in a high-scale fintech app.
Drove performance improvements across the Android codebase by reducing UI jank, improving startup flow efficiency, and refactoring legacy components using modern Android best practices.
Migrated multiple hardcoded UI flows to a server-driven UI architecture, enabling faster feature rollouts, dynamic UI updates, and reducing release dependency on app updates.
Actively mentored junior developers through code reviews, design discussions, and debugging sessions, improving overall team productivity and code quality.
Android Developer
Airtel Xstream
Gurugram, India
Revamped ExoPlayer-based Media Player UI across mobile and large-screen (Android TV/Leanback) apps, improving usability, reducing frame drops in video playback, and boosting user engagement on OTT platform.
Reduced app cold start time by optimizing initialization flow, implementing lazy loading, and improving Hilt dependency injection setup.
Introduced Jetpack Compose in the mobile app and integrated Google TV Continue Watching, expanding platform reach across mobile and large-screen surfaces.
Built a scorecard widget, increasing click-through rate (CTR) by 40%, enhancing user engagement and content discoverability.
Full Stack / Associate Software Developer
Xorlabs
G.Noida, India
Built a complete location-based platform from scratch including User, Partner, and Admin modules with role-based access control (RBAC) and real-time location tracking.
Developed a cross-platform mobile app (Flutter) with the Google Maps SDK, handling the full lifecycle including database design, APIs, frontend, and deployment.
Resolved critical production blockers under tight deadlines, ensuring on-time delivery for an internationally distributed client team.
Education
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU)
B.Tech
Skills
PROJECTS
AKTU All App
Kotlin, MVVM, Retrofit, Room, Coroutines, Jetpack Navigation
Built an all-in-one Android student resource app using MVVM + Repository pattern consolidating multiple university portals into a single offline-capable app; implemented async PDF download with Kotlin Coroutines and DownloadManager.
Android OTT Mini Player
Kotlin, ExoPlayer, Leanback, Hilt, MVVM, Firebase Analytics
Developed a feature-rich OTT media player supporting adaptive streaming (HLS/DASH) and Picture-in-Picture mode using ExoPlayer with MVVM architecture; integrated Leanback for Android TV with D-pad navigation and Firebase Analytics for playback tracking.
Android Analytics SDK
Kotlin, Retrofit, Room, WorkManager, Hilt, AAR Library
Designed and published a reusable Android analytics SDK as an AAR library with offline event queuing (Room + WorkManager), batched API sync via Retrofit, and Hilt-based DI for seamless host-app integration with minimal configuration.
AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Team Appreciation Award
recognized for technical ownership and engineering quality contributions.
Smart India Hackathon (SIH)
2nd Place
national-level competitive problem-solving and rapid prototyping.