Lokesh Ponnada
Senior Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLokesh Ponnada is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building performant, observable Android systems at scale, currently contributing at Google after senior roles at Peloton and Facebook. He focuses on app performance, offline-first features, and developer experience—authoring tooling like ADBXpert, an Android Studio plugin that streamlines ADB workflows and is published on the JetBrains Marketplace. Lokesh has a strong track record in instrumentation, crash and change attribution, and reducing startup and memory costs across consumer apps, plus hands-on experience customizing AOSP and building device SDKs. Comfortable shipping both product features and infra, he pairs system-level optimization with pragmatic developer tooling to speed teams and improve reliability. As an IIT Kharagpur alumnus who also writes technical posts, he brings a mix of deep Android expertise and a penchant for practical open-source utilities.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Data Mining, Data Mining at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)Bachelor's Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Hindi, Telugu, English
Github Skills (15)
android-applications6
chrome5
debug5
kotlin4
android4
sdk2
xiaomi2
developer-tools2
detector2
stetho2
computer-vision1
instrumentation1
camera2-api1
fragment1
camera1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lokeshponnada/tesla-companion
Mar 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
swathi6spark/ImageApp
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
inital commit.. MainListMVP ready
Contributions:1 PR, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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