Aditya Bhaskar
Staff Android Engineer at The Guardian
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAditya Bhaskar is a product-oriented Staff Android Engineer based in the UK with five years focused on building and leading development of The Guardian’s flagship news app. He combines hands-on Android expertise (Kotlin, MVVM, Room, Navigation) with a strong product sensibility honed from earlier work building consumer productivity apps and Chrome extensions with ~50k users. His background in management consulting and an MBA from IIM Calcutta gives him uncommon strength at the intersection of product strategy, user growth, and engineering delivery. At The Guardian he now drives cross-functional initiatives, translating editorial and business goals into scalable mobile experiences. Comfortable in both code and strategy, he brings a history of shipping integrations (Dropbox, Google Drive, Instapaper) and serverless backends that make him effective at end-to-end product ownership.
5 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech. Computer Science, B.Tech. Computer Science at Kurukshetra UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA Marketing Strategy Finance, Master of Business Administration - MBA Marketing Strategy Finance at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
English, Hindi, Punjabi
Github Skills (44)
debug10
render10
android9
guardian9
rendering7
android-apps7
documentation7
gradle-plugin7
kotlin7
native-code6
lint6
python6
ios6
javascript6
linter5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/source-apps
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Source library for Guardian apps - https://theguardian.design/
Contributions:109 reviews, 167 PRs, 252 pushes in 1 year 1 month
production
guardian/bridget-android
Sep 2023 - Feb 2025
Thrift definitions of the API for communication between the Android native app and Apps rendered webview content
Contributions:26 reviews, 28 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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