Summary
Rakesh Kumar is a Lead Android Developer with 8 years of experience building high-performance, user-first mobile apps, currently leading Android at Shuru where he scaled the product from early stage to over 10–20M+ installs. He is fluent in Kotlin, Java, Jetpack Compose and KMM, and has shipped end-to-end features including real-time video using 100ms and optimized client-side media pipelines that cut CDN costs by 70%. At Shuru he owned architecture, monetization, and performance work as an early hire, and previously contributed to consumer-focused Android projects at OnePlus and Samsung. He also built Fixline, a link-based calling app using Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform, showing a knack for cross-platform solutions beyond typical Android stacks. Notably, his experimentation-driven approach boosted onboarding completion from 75% to 95%, reflecting a product-minded engineering style that balances analytics, UX and systems optimization.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Science, 84.4, High School, Science, 84.4 at Chitra Gupt Inter College, Rath
B.Tech, Information Technology, B.Tech, Information Technology at National Institute of Technology , Patna
Intermidiate, 91.4%, Intermidiate, 91.4% at G.R.V. inter college Rath