Pratik Velani
Lead Android Engineer at Alpaca
Mumbai, Maharashtra, Canada
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Top SchoolPratik Velani is a Lead Android Engineer with over 10 years of experience building scalable, modular mobile and web applications, currently leading Android development at Alpaca after shaping pet-care experiences at Pawsh. He combines deep Android architecture expertise (MVP, MVC, Android Jetpack) with hands-on implementation skills, evidenced by a Google Associate Android Developer certification and contributions to open-source projects like Firezone where he added a native Android client and integrated Crashlytics. Pratik has a track record of shipping production-ready features, dependency refactors, and resilient auth/DNS fallbacks that improve reliability for end users. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs mobile UI refinements with backend integration work and an MS in Information Technology. Based between Mumbai and the UAE, he blends startup grit—having co-founded Bitrock—with senior engineering leadership at multiple firms. He’s passionate about solving real-world problems through engaging, well-architected apps and quietly focuses on maintainability and testability as drivers of long-term product loyalty.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.C.A, Computer Application, B.C.A, Computer Application at Tilak Maharashtra UniversitySt. Teresa Convent SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Information Technology, Master of Science - MS, Information Technology at Sikkim Manipal University - Distance Education
English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi
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Github Skills (18)
kotlin10
mobile-development10
android10
dependency-management9
user-interface9
crashlytics8
crash8
networking7
security7
adobe6
disk6
actionscript6
usb6
java6
vpn6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
firezone/firezone
Jul 2023 - Nov 2023
Enterprise-ready zero-trust access platform built on WireGuard®.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:22 reviews, 20 PRs, 76 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Pratik primarily focused on developing and integrating Android-specific features within the Firezone project. Their contributions included adding an Android client, updating dependencies, refactoring code, and implementing UI elements such as resources table view and sharing logs. They also worked on integrating Firebase Crashlytics and implemented functionalities related to auth redirect and DNS resolver fallback.
zero-trustspidvpnwireguardcloud
pratikvelani/libgdx-minesweeper
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
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