Tarun Lanka

Senior Android Engineer with 4+ years of experience building scalable production Android applications across OTT streaming and enterprise domains. Expertise in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Coroutines, Flow, Hilt, Retrofit, Firebase, ExoPlayer, and performance optimization. Proven track record improving startup performance, app stability, video playback reliability, and delivering reusable scalable Android architectures.

Android Engineer at DAZN Software Pvt. Ltd (2024-05 – Present)

• Built and maintained Android features for large-scale OTT streaming platforms serving high concurrent users.
• Improved cold app startup performance by 40% using SplashScreen API, deferred initialization, and startup profiling.
• Improved app stability through lifecycle optimization, coroutine scope management, and memory leak fixes.
• Designed and developed reusable Jetpack Compose UI components and shared UI modules, accelerating feature delivery and reducing duplicated implementation effort across teams.
• Built reusable Jetpack Compose UI components, accelerating feature delivery and reducing code duplication.
• Enhanced application performance through memory optimization, battery usage improvements, and leak detection analysis using Android Profiler and debugging tools.

Android Developer at Laalsa Business Insights (2023-11 – 2024-05)

• Developed production Android applications using Kotlin, MVVM, Retrofit, Coroutines, and Firebase.
• Built reusable UI modules, reducing development effort and improving consistency across features.
• Integrated Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics for monitoring app performance and user engagement.
• Participated in release cycles, debugging, and production issue resolution.

Android Developer at Greater Than Education Technologies (2021-12 – 2023-11)

• Developed Android applications using Kotlin, XML, MVVM, Retrofit, and Room.
• Implemented API integrations, local persistence, asynchronous data handling, and production bug fixes.
• Improved application stability through crash analysis and debugging.

B.Tech in Chemical Engineering – MVGR College of Engineering (2020)