# Pranav Patel

> Software Engineer, Android @ Reddit

Location: Greater Boston, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/pranavpatel

Android Software Engineer
Portfolio: https://github.com/prnvptl
Passionate about everything mobile & Android
Technologies: Android, Fastlane, Docker, SumoLogic, Ansible, NodeJS, New Relic
Languages: Java, Kotlin, Typescript
AWS Skills: Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, Step Functions, ECS, ECR, CloudWatch, CloudFormation

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Reddit, Inc.
Jan 2025 – Present
Android Ads Engineer focusing on Ad Formats

### Software Engineer @ Firstup
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025
• Leading the re-architecture of the UI layer using Jetpack Compose, emphasizing separation of concerns and adopting MVVM. Resulting in improved application architecture and user experience by redesigning the home screen.
• Implemented the first end-to-end tests and established the testing infrastructure to ensure the reliability and quality of the application using Espresso, CircleCI build pipelines. Conducted a proof of concept using the Firebase test lab.
• Led the implementation of major design refactor features and architecture changes such as migrating to the new
biometrics library, encrypted shared preferences and Java to Kotlin conversions.
• Applied detailed knowledge of different Android API levels to optimize capabilities and diagnose bottlenecks, developing highly performant Java code and view layouts using constraint layout and motion layout.

### Software Engineer @ Dataminr
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States
• Architecting and implementing Mobile CI/CD pipeline by automating build, test and deploy to App and Playstore.
(Gitlab, Fastlane, Docker).
• Migrating old CI/CD physical mac mini machine to AWS ec2 mac instance to save valuable engineering time and
speeding up CI/CD processes.
• Debugging and refactoring legacy Java code by creating more modularized modules and converting to Kotlin to use new
Jetpack libraries and simplifying tests.

### Software Engineer @ iCIMS
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021
• Developing the company’s mobile Android App using Android (Kotlin). Ownership of two apps in production that are
fully localized, accessible and with full continuous integration and deployment. (CI/CD)
• Enabled hiring managers and recruiters to take action on their most important hiring tasks from anywhere with a user
friendly mobile and web app increasing usage by 80%
• As the scrum master, responsible for managing team’s results by coordinating cross-department with Product Owner,
Architects, UX Design teams and other Agile teams to achieve solutions

### Computer Science Teaching Assistant @ Rutgers University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
• Taught weekly recitations for Intro to Computer Science
• Held office hours to mentor and assist students
• Graded projects and mid-term and final exams

### Software Development Intern @ iCIMS
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
• Worked on the company's Android app, adding new features and enhancements
• Created organization visibility of core platform performance by showing live API metrics, load and throughput.
Dashboard was used and setup cross-department at iCIMS
• Created a custom annotation processor that created RAML files from Java resource files used by iCIMS platform. (Java)
• Fully automated planning and pre-planning for agile teams by integrating JIRA using RESTful APIs with VBA in Excel. (VBA)

### Software Engineer Intern @ TeliApp Corporation
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Mobile Engineer - Developing various Android apps for clients


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Rutgers University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pranav-patel-901225141
- GitHub: https://github.com/Pranav-794

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Last updated: 2026-03-28