Gaurav Thakkar
SDE - 2 Android at BookMyShow
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolGaurav Thakkar is an Android-focused SDE-2 with 8 years of experience crafting modern, high-performance mobile apps and leading migrations to modern Android stacks like Jetpack Compose, Media3, and Kotlin. At BookMyShow he’s driven large-scale upgrades—edge-to-edge Android 15 support, modularization, and performance improvements—while mentoring juniors and shaping API/UX decisions. He’s pragmatic and language-agnostic, comfortable re-architecting legacy codebases and building CI/CD pipelines, and advocates strong automated testing and high coverage. His open-source work includes reverse-engineering IPTV APIs to produce practical tooling, reflecting a curiosity for systems beneath the surface. Outside work he balances technical agility with physical discipline as a regular yoga practitioner and multisport player, which he credits for sustaining focus under on-call pressure.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
HSC, 82%, HSC, 82% at Fergusson College95%, 95% at The Bishop's SchoolBachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Engineering at Maharashtra Institute of Technology
English
Stackoverflow
2,055reputation
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96answers
6questions
android-studio
top-5%
Github Skills (19)
json10
python10
api10
http-request10
reverse-engineering10
multithreading9
jwt9
hyper-threading9
android-studio9
thread9
threaded9
flutter6
android-jetpack-compose6
android-signing6
android6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ForceGT/Tata-Sky-IPTV
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
Generate direct m3u playlist for all the channels subscribed in the Tata Sky portal
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 74 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Gaurav focused on reverse engineering the Tata Sky IPTV API to generate a direct m3u playlist. Their primary contributions involved creating Python scripts to fetch channel information, including names, URLs, and license details. They implemented login functionality using OTP, created a method to generate a JWT token and incorporated multi-threading to improve playlist generation speed. Furthermore, the user added code to save user details and the generated playlist to files.
pythonyoutubem3u-playlistchannelstata
ForceGT/ArtlistDL
Jun 2022 - Apr 2024
Contributions:4 releases, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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