saurabhlahoti93

Lead Developer

I am Saurabh Lahoti, a Mobile Application Developer with over 9 years of experience, specializing in Android and cross-platform app development using Flutter. Currently, I lead mobile engineering at ZInc Money, where I focus on API development, object-oriented programming, and optimizing app performance. I have a strong track record of driving impactful improvements in project metrics and fostering team success.

Throughout my career, I've taken on various roles, from founding and developing my own projects, such as Gamerboard, to mentoring teams and contributing to large-scale applications like those at Acko General Insurance. My technical skills span across various frameworks and languages, including Kotlin, Java, Dart, and JavaScript, and I am proficient in tools like Firebase, REST API, and Google Cloud Vision API.

I hold a Bachelor of Technology in Software Engineering from Delhi Technological University and have consistently delivered results that enhance user experience and app performance, evidenced by significant increases in app downloads, active users, and user retention across the projects I've managed.


Experience: 9 years

Yearly salary: $70,000

Hourly rate: $20

Nationality: 🇮🇳 India

Residency: 🇮🇳 India


Experience

Mobile Developer & Founder
Gamerboard (Self funded project)
2023 - 2024
Built the core engine to record the BGMI and FreeFire matches and submit scores in native android. Built the client facing UI in Flutter for ease of deployment on other platforms in future. Setup the automated unit tests and CI/CD for app releases along with in-app update and percentage rollout mechanism. Worked on profiling and optimizing the app to bring down the memory consumption of the app by 50% and CPU usage by 35%. 1.5K DAU in just 4 months of app launch. Released and monitored A/B tests for optimizing user journeys resulting in 23% and 6%, W1 and M1 retention.
Software Development Engineer 3
Acko General Insurance, Bengaluru
2020 - 2024
Built the Health insurance line of business from ground up using Flutter (learnt & implemented) and Bloc architecture creating a single code for both iOS and Android platform, reducing app size from 50MB→ 17MB. Mentored the team of 3 developers and responsible for code reviewing and merging for health LOB. Implemented in-app experience for raising, tracking and settling claims, policy management and created the fitness tracking & rewarding feature which increased the avg. user’s time spent on app daily from 5 mins →15 mins. Made the segment first feature of Advance Cash, where we provide the user with cash in Acko wallet before treatment. Setup the JS functions for cross platform communication during in-app web journeys for seamless experience. Responsible for setting up the CI/CD pipeline for sharing app for internal testing reducing the internal app deliveries from 3 hours → 15 mins. Contributed to organization level app modules for cookie management, user rewards & network service layer. Increase from 2L app downloads and 10K active users → 5.8M app downloads and 1.2M active users. Raised the NPS score of health claims from 3.6→ 7.5.
Android Lead & Founding Member
Rooter, New Delhi
2017 - 2020
Built app from scratch, having features like fantasy game and scorecard (using firestore, RxAndroid). Pubg game ranking finder and room creation tech (Cloud Vision API). LIVE broadcasting, transcoding and game streaming features (Agora Client, Media projection and Audio recorder, Youtube and Facebook LIVE). Optimized APK size to around 20MB, very low amongst the category. Notification and deep linking framework and remote feature delivery and A/B tests. Using Kotlin with coroutines, MVVM design pattern with Data Binding. Ranked in top 10 free games on play store with retention of W1 at more than 30% and stability at 99.5%.
Android Developer
Kalagato, New Delhi
2016 - 2016
Worked in team to create the app which derives consumer insights that drive growth and engagement. Used facebook's GraphQL to optimize payload delivery and MPAndroid chart library for visualization of data. Optimized network bandwidth and battery usage.
Android Developer
Click Labs, Chandigarh
2015 - 2016
Learned Android from scratch in a month and started contributing to production line projects. Each project had a different use case thus enabling me to learn and implement various features like Google, Login, OAuth APIs. Ability to contribute to multiple projects at the same time.

Skills

api
backend
flutter
graphql
tech-lead
android
english