Don Chakkappan
Senior Engineer at Falabella India
Thrissur, Kerala, India
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Top SchoolDon Chakkappan is a Senior Engineer and mobile app architect with 11+ years building high-performance, secure Android and multi-platform Kotlin solutions across retail, finance, and embedded systems. He currently drives in-store mobile POS innovation at Falabella India, combining Kotlin Multiplatform, GraphQL and SwiftUI exploration while owning product monitoring and test automation pipelines. Previously as a Technology Lead at Infosys he improved developer productivity with custom lint rules and modular feature-driven design to deliver pixel-perfect mobile experiences. His background spans low-level embedded work (JNI, BeagleBone) to shrinking APKs and OWASP-aligned fintech apps, reflecting a rare blend of device, system and application-level expertise. A pragmatic engineer who lives by "Think twice, code once," he also builds developer tooling such as a cross-platform Mac utility and custom documentation generators to eliminate repetitive work. Based in Thrissur, Kerala, he’s pursuing an MTech while continuously expanding into iOS and desktop multiplatform development.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Software Engineering at BITS Pilani Work Integrated Learning ProgrammesBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at Mahatma Gandhi University
English
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Github Skills (52)
android10
android-animation9
java9
android-fragments9
android-imageview9
monodevelop8
graph7
space6
shell6
adb6
android-emulator6
android-studio6
csharp6
kotlin6
ide6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
donchakkappan/Date-Time-Using-JNI---Android
Oct 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
kotlindate-timeandroid-libraryandroid
donchakkappan/Convert
Jun 2024 - Jul 2024
Contributions:68 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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