Summary
Santosh Gaikar is a mobile-first engineering leader and founder with nine years of experience building high-performance Android and iOS applications and end-to-end products. As Principal Mobile Engineer at Probo and now co-founder of a tech-first astrology startup, he blends hands-on Kotlin/Swift development with architecture and team-building—favoring MVVM/MVP, Dagger2/Hilt, and scalable, testable designs. He has deep experience integrating social SDKs, payment gateways, location services, and performance-minded features that boost user engagement. Comfortable across mobile, web, and data layers, Santosh is passionate about translating product vision into polished, user-centric experiences and enabling teams to ship quickly. Based in Mumbai, he brings a track record of rapid MVP delivery and a curiosity for applying modern tech to unconventional domains like personalized astrology.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at Vasantdada Patil Pratishthan’s College of Engineering and Visual Arts (VPPCOEVA)
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai