# Namrata Bandekar

> Software Engineer at Facebook

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/namratabandekar

Experienced Mobile Developer with a research background in image and video processing. I do both iOS and Android native development. I am also very passionate about public speaking and technical writing.
I am currently not looking for a new opportunity.

🎤 Speaking Engagements:

 "Video Processing on Android", 360|AnDev 2017
 "Video Processing on Android", DevFest Florida 2017
 "Making Mobile Apps Smarter With Machine Learning", ExploreTech, May 2017
 "Video Processing on Android", GDG Toronto, June 2017
 "Video Processing on Android", Toronto Android Developers, June 2017
 Tutorial speaker, RWDevCon 2018

📖 Relevant Publications:

 Writer,  ARKit By Tutorials
 Technical Editor, Android Apprentice

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2019 – Present

### Book Author @ Razeware LLC (raywenderlich.com)
Jan 2015 – Present | http://www.raywenderlich.com
Writing and tech editing books on Mobile Development on the popular mobile development education
blog raywenderlich.com.

### Principal Software Engineer @ Zynga
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ OANDA Corporation
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
Major contributor to fxTrade on iOS, an app designed for professional traders to stay on top of fast-moving forex markets. Designing and implementing core features, building automated tests and contributing to user interface decisions.

Working with the customer support team to prioritize and resolve issues in a timely manner. Using tools like Fabric to track and analyze crashes.

Won hackathons and shipped innovative features. Organized many meetups and startup open houses. Represented the company at major tech conferences.

Involved in designing the interview and on-boarding process for co-ops.

### Mobile Engineer @ Stagename Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Lead contributor for NewsGIF, a community driven news service which uses GIFs to embed bite-sized news for an entertaining and fluid sharing experience. Designed, developed and tested both Android and iOS apps.

NewsGIF was featured in the best new apps category on the App Store in multiple countries. It was also
featured on Product Hunt.

Sole mobile developer responsible for GIFscore, and WeatherGIF apps on both Android and iOS platforms.
GIFscore was launched during SuperBowl 50 and featured on the App Store.

Collaborated with the CEO and content editor on user experience design and user interface decisions.

### Software Engineer @ Good Technology
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Design and implement key components of Good's Android MDM and integrity services solution.

Collaborate with teams across different locations and time zones to ensure timely deliverables.

### Software Engineer @ Fixmo (Acquired by Good Technology)
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
Primary member of the mobile development team participating in architectural design and implementation of SafeZone, an enterprise level mobile security application.

Designed, implemented and tested new features in Java and Objective C, for the Android and iOS clients, for SafeWatch, a consumer oriented mobile security application.

Learned valuable debugging skills on developing platforms such as Xcode and Eclipse.

Interviewed, mentored and guided co-op students and interns joining the team.

### Software Design Engineer in Test Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Redmond, WA
Traffic Generator Tool
•	Designed a test protocol to simulate real-life network application workloads. Analyzed the Web Fundamentals benchmark for the HTTP workload
•	Extended the existing traffic generator design to implement the new features
•	Tested performance impact of Win8 network acceleration technologies such as Quality of Service (QoS) on application workloads

### Research Assistant @ University of Waterloo
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011
SAR sea-ice segmentation and classification 
Area of Focus: Image Processing, supervised by Prof. David Clausi

### Intern @ Tata Consultancy Services
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008
•	Designed and implemented an algorithm in C for estimating number and size of grapes in a given image to help grape farmers in quality management
•	Reduced processing time by using an original approach to automate the counting of grapes

### Research Intern @ École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007
Non-uniform Sampling on the Surface of a Sphere
•	Conceptualized and implemented an interpolation method in MATLAB to reconstruct a 3-D model from the samples of the original model on a non-uniform spherical grid
•	Achieved 12% improvement in reconstruction quality compared to the previously used method
•	Increased efficiency by optimizing the interpolation technique


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

### MASc. in Systems Design Engineering
University of Waterloo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/namratabandekar
- Portfolio: http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~nbandeka

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Last updated: 2026-04-10