Surender Garg

Senior Android Engineer with 9.5 years of software engineering experience — 7.5 years dedicated to native Android — architecting high-scale consumer apps for 50M+ users across fintech, super-app, and logistics platforms. Deep expertise in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines/Flow, and Clean Architecture (MVVM/MVI), with a proven record of cutting crash rates, accelerating release velocity, and mentoring engineering teams. Pioneers an AI-augmented development workflow — using Claude and Codex for architectural brainstorming, complex refactoring, and automated test generation — to ship production-grade features 2-3x faster without sacrificing code quality.

Combines hands-on technical depth with release ownership and cross-functional leadership to deliver measurable business impact.

Senior Software Developer - RKSV Securities (Upstox) - Bengaluru, India

(2026-01)

Contractual

• Cut production crash rate by 35% across the Upstox trading app (5M+ users) by instrumenting Crashlytics dashboards, triaging 15+ critical memory leaks with LeakCanary, and enforcing memory-profiling gates in the PR review process.
• Accelerated feature delivery by 20% by architecting and leading Jetpack Compose adoption across 6 core trading screens, enabling component reuse across 2 squads and eliminating ~1,800 lines of legacy XML.
• Spearheaded an AI-assisted development workflow using Claude, Codex, and Cursor for boilerplate generation, refactoring, and test scaffolding — cutting development time by ~40% and establishing it as a team-wide standard.
• Sustained 100% Play Store policy compliance across every release by designing structured release-gating checklists and pre-launch report reviews.

Senior Software Developer - Dew Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (Tata Neu / BigBasket) - Gurugram, India

(2021-03 - 2025-10)

• Optimized cold-start performance for Tata Neu (10M+ MAU), reducing P95 cold start time by 340ms through lazy module loading and targeted heap-leak fixes, sustaining a 4.3+ Play Store rating.
• Owned end-to-end release management across 10+ major versions, cutting post-release P1 incidents by 40% by building automated smoke tests and pre-release performance gating.
• Architected a LaunchDarkly feature-flag framework for A/B testing and gradual rollout, enabling risk-free shipping of 8 high-impact features to segmented user cohorts.
• Mentored 3 junior engineers through structured code reviews and architecture walkthroughs, driving 2 promotions to mid-level within 18 months.
• Delivered 10+ major feature releases within cross-functional Agile squads spanning engineering, product, and design, consistently hitting sprint commitments at under 5% rollback rate.
• Led the Kotlin migration of legacy Java modules, improving maintainability score by 10% and shortening new-engineer onboarding time.

Android Developer - Virtual Employee Pvt. Ltd. - Noida, India

(2018-05 - 2019-10)

• Improved API efficiency by 25% for USi Money's cross-border remittance app by implementing OkHttp response caching and connection pooling, cutting average latency from 1.8s to 1.35s on 3G networks.
• Built a secure KYC onboarding flow, push notification system, and payment integration from the ground up for a production fintech product serving international users.
• Delivered client demos and sprint reviews within an Agile environment, contributing to on-time delivery of 4 consecutive quarterly milestones.

Software Developer - AIMS Digital Technovation Pvt. Ltd. - Gurugram, India

(2015-05 - 2018-04)

• Built modular consumer apps with backward compatibility across Android 4.x-8.x, delivering stable experiences on a highly fragmented device landscape.
• Reduced ANRs by 30% through targeted code restructuring, main-thread offloading, and Android Profiler-guided optimization sessions.

B.Tech - Computer Science Engineering (2008 - 2012)