Waseef Akhtar
Android Engineer, Design Lead at Instabridge
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolWaseef Akhtar is an Android engineer and design lead based in Stockholm with 11 years in software and over 7 years focused on Android product development. He blends hands-on engineering—migrating legacy Java to Kotlin and adopting Jetpack libraries—with product-minded design work that drove measurable business outcomes, including a 13% uplift in monthly revenue and 100k new users through optimized onboarding. At Degoo he also cut cloud costs by 24% through pragmatic storage limits, and contributed to a Galaxy Store Award-winning adaptation for Samsung’s One UI. Now leading Android and design at Instabridge, he pairs UI/UX sensibility with platform expertise to ship polished, revenue-driving features. Collected experience across Android and iOS development plus an iOS nanodegree gives him a cross-platform perspective that informs better mobile product decisions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree, Become an iOS Developer, Nanodegree, Become an iOS Developer at UdacityEngineer's Degree, Software Engineering, Engineer's Degree, Software Engineering at Bahria UniversityHigh School, A levels, High School, A levels at New Middle East International School
English, Urdu, Pashto, Arabic, French
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Github Skills (166)
material-components10
menu10
modular10
jetpack10
kotlin-coroutines10
architecture10
in-progress10
compose10
clean-architecture10
kotlin-android10
android-library10
mvvm-architecture10
android-app10
customisation10
android10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
waseefakhtar/dose-android
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
💊⏰ Dose is a medication reminder app for Android, built entirely using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose with MVVM + Clean Architecture
Contributions:8 releases, 53 reviews, 91 commits in 2 months
retrofit2dosemvvmcomposemvvm-architecture
waseefakhtar/Gmail-Navigation-Drawer
May 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 10 months
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