Gaurav Kumar
SDE III at Wayfair
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolGaurav Kumar is a product-driven mobile engineering lead and SDE III at Wayfair with 9 years of experience building high-performance Android and media-heavy applications. He has led camera, video, AR and 3D graphics initiatives—shipping camera SDKs, live-stream infra and an in-house AR engine—and founded VideoFast to accelerate short-video creation with AI. Comfortable across Android SDK/NDK, C++, OpenGL ES, FFmpeg and MediaCodec, he combines deep systems work (video encoders/decoders, media muxers) with UX-focused libraries—several of which he open-sourced, including an audio visualizer and customizable navigation bar. He’s scaled consumer apps from zero to millions, improved stability and performance metrics (crash-free rates ~99.6–99.9%), and often bridges mobile and backend concerns to deliver end-to-end creator experiences. An entrepreneurial engineer, he blends hands-on coding, technical leadership, and product instincts to turn complex multimedia problems into polished, usable features.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science and Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityKendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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889reached
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Github Skills (19)
java10
android-library10
audio10
javas10
android10
android-ui10
ui-design8
animation8
player7
material-design7
media-player7
sound-player7
music7
audio-player7
database6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gauravk95/bubble-navigation
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
🎉 [Android Library] A light-weight library to easily make beautiful Navigation Bar with ton of 🎨 customization option.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:3 releases, 49 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:Gaurav primarily contributed to the development of an Android library focused on creating custom navigation bars, as indicated by the repository's description and topics. Their commits demonstrate the implementation of UI elements, including a custom `BubbleToggleView`, and modifications to the library's structure and functionality. They also added features such as badge support and configuration changes to improve the library's usability. The user focused on updating implementations, refactoring the code, and adding comments for better code understanding.
android-animationnavigation-barnavigationfloatington
gauravk95/audio-visualizer-android
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
🎵 [Android Library] A light-weight and easy-to-use Audio Visualizer for Android.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:1 release, 57 commits, 1 PR in 7 months
Contributions summary:Gaurav primarily contributed to the development of an Android library for audio visualization. Their work involved core code changes, including implementing base visualizer classes, and custom visualizer implementations (Wave, Blob, Blast). The user also updated example applications to demonstrate the library's functionality, added a music streaming example, and addressed package name updates to adhere to maven conventions.
light-weightlightvisualizerandroid-animationandroid-library
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