Successfully led several initiatives across Reality labs and Videos in Android.

• World facing AR experiences in museums. Underlying technology was successfully patented.

• Modernized video consumption, made video recommendation more responsive, and increased reels consumption in Facebook.

• Delivered every new feature in Android at the same time as multiple iOS engineers for the sleep and wellness feature team (I was the only android engineer for this team).

• Implemented advanced graphs that involved using paths, bézier curves and alpha compositing.

• Carved a sleep module in gradle decoupling code and database, and improving build time.

• Mentored junior engineers.

• Improved QA automation in Espresso by adding a capability to selectively inject mock data.

• Designed and implemented multiple API endpoints that all clients could consume from.

• Was part of backend release monitoring for sleep and wellness.

Was part of the 6 member team that worked on the Amazon Music Android app and increased its rating from 3.33 to 4 stars.

Enhanced the reliability of HLS playback in Android’s Media Player.

Launched line-by-line Lyrics synchronized with audio playback.

Launched an improved Downloads component that supported grouped and parallel downloads along with the ability to pause and resume them.

Modernized Amazon Music’s UI according to Android’s design guidelines.

Helped launch Prime Music features such as Prime search, Prime stations and other Prime pages.

Addressed customer pain points by root causing trouble tickets such as garbaged metadata for purchased music, downloaded prime music playback failure in certain devices and inability to download music using Amazon Music Android app in ICS.

Hackathon project: Added Chromecast support to seamlessly stream currently playing playlist / album on the device to a TV.

Implemented new features in Lua driven Android apps that streamed Live TV and Video-on-Demand.

Debugged and fixed issues at the Lua-Java interaction layer.

Fixed issues in custom Android Media player that handle fragmented mp4 feeds.

Worked on decoding DASH formatted mp4 segments that extracted H.264 / AVC video and AAC audio, and used Android's MediaCodec APIs to render them as part of an eMBMS solution.

Worked on enhancing the accessibility of the visual content in movies for the visually impaired.

Developed a system that automatically detects, and delivers haptic cues, for global motions in video such as camera panning, zooming and scene changes through a mobile phone.

Analyzed human facial expressions and aided in the development of a haptic glove.

Keywords: Haptics, Accessibility, HCI