Sandeep Kumar MV
Senior Staff Engineer | Mobile Architect | Large-Scale Transformation Specialist | AI Systems Builder
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Senior Staff-level mobile platform leader with 15+ years architecting and modernizing distributed mobile systems across regulated fintech ecosystems in Southeast Asia. Proven record transforming monolithic codebases into modular, contract-driven platforms with enforceable architectural boundaries, measurable reliability gains and accelerated multi-country rollouts. Experienced in defining modernization roadmaps, institutionalizing architecture governance and aligning engineering execution with long-term business scalability.
Recently extended expertise into LLM and RAG-based AI systems for conversational and document intelligence workflows.
Experience
Senior Staff Engineer (Mobile Platform) - HCLTech
(2019-01 - 2025-01)
- Led architecture and delivery for 8 regulated banking mobile products across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam.
- Designed a configuration-driven multi-country mobile platform with strict module boundaries and dependency linting to reduce cross-team regressions.
- Migrated legacy monoliths into domain-driven feature modules with isolated state containers and contract-governed APIs, reduced cross-team rework 30%.
- Standardized CI/CD pipelines with automated quality gates and staged rollout strategies (feature flags + kill switches), shortening deployment cycles by 66%.
- Coordinated product, security and regional stakeholders to execute phased transformation without service disruption.
Senior Technical Lead - Publicis Sapient
(2016-01 - 2019-01)
- Delivered consumer mobile platforms serving 50M+ users, led migration from Objective-C to Swift.
- Designed an offline-first sync engine, reducing network usage 80% and improving reliability in low-connectivity regions.
- Eliminated high-concurrency McD dashboard inconsistencies 100% for all Order-Placed Beta users by redesigning state synchronization with queued API reconciliation and strict single-writer enforcement.
- Developed centralized observability (NewRelic/Firebase + custom telemetry), enabling correlated crash and user-flow analysis and reducing P1 incidents 45% YoY.
Senior Mobile Engineer
(2010-01 - 2016-01)
- Built high-performance iOS modules, Delivered stable, scalable iOS applications used by millions and contributed to engineering standards for performance and reliability.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication - Anna University, Chennai, India (2009-01)