# Anand Balan > Software Engineer • 8+ YoE • Android • React Native • Backend • AI • Building AI-powered Mobile Apps, Platforms & DevTools Location: Fremont, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/anandbalan Software Engineer with Advanced (M.S.) degree in Computer Science and 8+ years of work experience in Android, Backend and React Native. Quick learner with proven ability to quickly understand new codebases and possess a keen eye for detail. Interest Areas: Mobile Apps (Android), Cloud Native Backend Apps and AI Apps. Technical Skills: Languages: Java, Kotlin, Python, Javascript, Typescript, Go Framework & Tools: Android, React Native, Firebase, Tornado Web Server, Django, Flask Database : MongoDB, PostgreSQL Version Control : Git Build Tools : Gradle, Npm ## Work Experience ### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Jan 2023 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States Develop scalable mobile app platform to support 70+ feature development teams. Responsible for developing build systems, developer tooling, performance tooling. Integrated support for React Native Turbo Native Modules within React Native New Architecture improving some critical JS to native call performance by ~98% (315ms -> 5ms per call) Led runtime performance and startup latency improvement initiatives on React Native layer. Other responsibilities include supporting office hours, oncall duty and mentoring junior engineers. ### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Sunnyvale, California, United States ### Android Software Engineer - Full Stack @ Wish Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California Design and architect high-impact features for the Wish Android app and the Wish Backend service to improve user acquisition and post-purchase user retention areas. Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and Data Scientists to gather requirements, and convert them to technical specifications. Led a large-scale user acquisition & retention initiative involving 5 other engineers from design to release including responsibilities such as facilitating communication within the team, parallel execution planning, and creating a complete test suite. Perform code reviews, practice, and adopt industry best practices and design patterns to improve the code quality. Mentor junior engineers and interns in on-boarding and in helping them in becoming more successful contributors to the team. Manage app releases from testing phase to publishing on the Google Play Store. Contribute to recruitment and team-building processes by conducting phone and onsite interviews, presenting architecture improvement ideas to the team. Technologies: Java, Kotlin, Android Framework, Architecture Components, Firebase, Python, Tornado, A/B Testing, MongoDB, AWS - S3, SQS ### Software Engineering Intern @ Google Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Sunnyvale, California Responsible for improving keyboard and mouse support of Gmail's android app on large screen devices like tablets and chromebooks. Technologies: Java, Android Framework, Layouts, Chrome OS, Robolectric and Espresso ### Software Engineer @ Zoho Corporation Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Chennai Area, India Responsible for developing critical features for help desk software. Worked on all levels of Web application stack, including - 1. Database design 2. Back-end design and development 3. Front-end application development Technologies: Java, Java Server Pages, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PostgreSQL, MySQL ### Software Engineering Intern @ Zoho Corporation Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Chennai Area, India Responsible for developing Ember.js components following lazy loading pattern to improve page load performance. Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ember.js, Underscore.js, Grunt.js, Moment.js ### Member of Design Team @ Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Thanjavur Area, India Responsible for designing brochures, banners, posters, logos and certificates using Adobe PhotoShop for inter-college technical competition held at SASTRA University ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science The University of Texas at Dallas Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 ### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Computer Science and Engineering Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ### Higher Secondary Education A.V.Meiyappan Matriculation Higher Secondary School Jan 1999 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/anandbalan1 - GitHub: https://github.com/anand-b --- Source: https://flows.cv/anandbalan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/anandbalan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29