Summary
Karan Dhillon is a Senior Android Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building performant mobile experiences across consumer and enterprise apps. Currently at Instacart after leading speed and performance work on Instagram’s App Speed Team, he specializes in optimizing app stability, dependency modernization, and delivering smooth UX under real-world scale. His background spans startups and large platforms—Hootsuite, HomeStars and Softchoice—bringing a pragmatic balance of conceptual design and analytical problem solving. A continuous learner with postgraduate training in enterprise software and web development, he consistently adopts new Android APIs and libraries to keep products current and resilient. Notably, his cross-disciplinary roles early in his career (web development, bookkeeping and retail) give him a user-focused, detail-oriented approach to shipping polished mobile features.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
IK Gujral Punjab Technical University
Post-graduate certificate program, Enterprise Software Development, Post-graduate certificate program, Enterprise Software Development at Humber College
English, Hindi, Punjabi