Sohail Pathan
Senior Developer Advocate
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSohail Pathan is a Senior Developer Advocate with eight years of experience at the intersection of AI, developer tooling, and security, currently based in Bengaluru and working at Okta. He has a strong background in developer relations and mobile engineering—having shipped Android features like coroutine-driven notifications and OneTap sign-in for Coding Blocks—and has led developer communities and programs that scaled ambassador networks and engagement. Sohail blends hands-on engineering (notably contributions to an Android app serving online course users) with developer enablement, having headed developer relations and driven product-focused outreach at startups like Moreficent and ApyHub. He pairs technical writing training with practical mentorship experience, which helps him translate complex security and AI topics into actionable guidance for engineers. Less obvious: he balances product-focused developer advocacy with solid implementation chops, moving fluidly between shipping code and shaping developer ecosystems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Computer Science, High School Diploma Computer Science at Late Vasantdada PolytechnicProfessional Technical Business and Scientific Writing, Professional Technical Business and Scientific Writing at Startup School OnlineBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Lovely Professional University
English, Hindi, Marathi, Urdu
Stackoverflow
336reputation
20kreached
19answers
4questions
Github Skills (13)
kotlin10
coroutines10
android10
fragmentmanager9
fragment9
rest-api8
rvest6
android-studio6
expo-image-picker6
react-native6
r6
resize6
image6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
coding-blocks/CBOnlineApp
Apr 2020 - May 2020
😎⚡️Android App for Coding Blocks Online Courses
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:21 commits, 25 PRs, 30 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sohail primarily contributed to the Android application for the Coding Blocks online courses. Their work included adding coroutine support to the notification activity, refactoring the quiz result fragment, and implementing a goodies request form. They also replaced FragmentPagerAdapter with FragmentStatePagerAdapter and made changes to certificate download functionality.
android-apponline-coursesandroid
iamspathan/apyhub-email-validation-tutorial
May 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:3 PRs, 11 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 5 months
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