Rahul Hooda
Senior Lead Software Engineer at Times Internet
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRahul Hooda is a Senior Lead Software Engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience designing and shipping large-scale Android products and SDKs. He currently leads architecture and technical delivery for flagship apps and a cross-product Subscription SDK at The Economic Times, driving modular, testable, and performance-focused solutions. Previously he built PayU’s Checkout Pro SDK from scratch, owning its lifecycle and ensuring secure, developer-friendly integrations used by many merchants. Rahul blends deep Android expertise (Java, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose) with pragmatic leadership—mentoring teams, resolving production incidents, and aligning engineering with product goals. He also champions internal AI tooling (GPT, Claude, Cursor) to accelerate development workflows, an indicator of his interest in practical AI augmentation. Based in Noida, he pairs a strong engineering foundation with a knack for turning complex requirements into maintainable, reusable code.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering at S.D Institute of technology and Management/Kurukshetra UniversityHigher Education Non-Medical, Higher Education Non-Medical at Mahendra Model Sr Sec School
English, Hindi
Github Skills (5)
payumoney10
android-sdk9
android7
upi7
ios1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
payu-intrepos/payumoney-new-sample-app
Jul 2017 - Oct 2020
New Sample App For PayUmoney and PnP SKD integration
Contributions:2 releases, 5 commits, 7 pushes in 3 years 3 months
payumoney
Rahul-Hooda/LocalizationApp
Oct 2021 - Mar 2026
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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