Balarka Velidi
About Balarka Velidi
Consumer product developer/lead with a track record of architecting and building high quality products/apps serving millions of customers, with focus on performance and scalability across mobile (Android) and web platforms. Experience leading/building large scale initiatives across mobile & web clients with robust instrumentation to measure user growth, engagement (successful & failed customer interactions) and user retention. Team player, mentored numerous engineers over the years effectively fostering team's growth and nurturing culture. Eager to learn on latest mobile design/development patterns, best programming practices, software component design/interaction, solving scalability and testability aspects. LANGUAGES: Kotlin · Java · JavaScript · Ruby · Perl · C PLATFORMS: Android, Web DEVELOPMENT: Android Jetpack Components (Room, LiveData, Compose, ViewModel, Lifecycles, KTX) · Coroutines · Retrofit · Gradle · Stetho · Git TESTING: JUnit · Espresso · Mockito · Robotium · Selenium (web) WEB FRAMEWORKS: ReactJS · Bootstrap · Ruby on Rails · Sinatra · NodeJS WEB SERVER INFRASTRUCTURE: Spring · Nginx · Redis · Docker · Splunk · AWS