Summary
Somasundaram Mahesh is a pragmatic engineer and co-founder with 11+ years building production-grade Android apps, most recently shaping video streaming experiences that serve 100M+ users. A hands-on leader, he drove Jetpack Compose adoption and playback performance at Disney+ Hotstar and now brings that product-first mentality to AI through UnitedBy.AI, a 120+ member Chennai community focused on building practical AI projects. His technical sweet spot sits at the Android+AI intersection—Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, KMP—exploring on-device LLM agents and Claude Code workflows. Comfortable scaling systems and teams, he combines deep performance tuning experience with a bias for shipping, and often prototypes ideas end-to-end from device to model.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary, Computer Science, Higher Secondary, Computer Science at St.John's Matriculation
Nanodegree, Android Developer Nanodegree, Nanodegree, Android Developer Nanodegree at Udacity
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering at Vel Tech Multi Tech Engineering college
French, Tamil, English