Summary
Sandesh Shashidhara is a Senior Android Engineer with 10+ years building large-scale, security-conscious mobile platforms and SDKs, currently shaping the next generation of family apps at Meta after leading the Splunk Mobile Android team. He designs and ships core authentication, dashboarding, and analytics SDKs used across multiple Splunk products, and has end-to-end ownership of CI/CD, testing, and Play Store delivery. Deep in Android internals, he blends Kotlin/Java expertise, Jetpack/Compose architectures, and native C++ work from Samsung Knox to solve hard security and performance problems. He regularly leads cross-functional initiatives, mentors engineers, and balances product roadmaps with technical debt and infrastructure needs. A Syracuse CS graduate (4.0 GPA, best graduate student) with a background in enterprise encryption and MDM SDKs, he brings both rigorous academic foundations and field-proven systems design to mobile engineering.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological University
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Syracuse University
English, Kannada