Akshay Kumar

Designed, built, and maintained high-quality Android applications serving 1.2M+ monthly active users and 20M+ Google Play Store downloads, enhancing foundational app components using Jetpack architecture components and design patterns. Spearheaded and shipped four high-impact product features in three months, catalyzing 60% revenue growth through close collaboration with product managers and designers in agile sprint cycles. Ensured performance, quality, and responsiveness of the HKD app by orchestrating Coroutines and multi-threaded asynchronous code, slashing ANR and crash rate by 10% through precision-targeted debugging and profiling. Revamped the entire app UI using Material Design principles and Jetpack Navigation Component, propelling user retention from 78% to 87% within one year delivering a highly user-centric experience. Participated actively in code reviews, sprint planning sessions, and project retrospectives, contributing to team development cycles and upholding high engineering standards. Reduced AWS server costs by 48% via RDS and CDN optimization; integrated Google Ads via AdMob and deployed push notifications using Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). Architected Pragati AI a cross-platform geolocation-based app using Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) with Jetpack Compose Multiplatform UI and Spring Boot REST APIs showcasing ability to provide technical direction for complex mobile engineering initiatives. Mentored junior engineers and contributed to observability through comprehensive technical documentation, real-time database monitoring, and rigorous code reviews.

Built a Hybrid Automation Framework using Java, Selenium, Selenium Grid, Maven, and TestNG, reducing manual testing by 60% and regression time by 40%. Maintained 500+ automated test cases with 95% coverage for critical user flows; integrated with Jenkins for CI/CD; used observability tools including Allure and ReportNG to monitor test health. Troubleshot and debugged issues across multiple systems and domains; collaborated cross-functionally to ensure crash-free, reliable software deployments.

Delivered 5+ new features for ICICI Bank application 'IMAMS' in an enterprise mobile engineering environment, reducing defects by 20% and maintaining 99.9% uptime. Built approximately 50 Android applications using build variants in Android Studio, applying version control via Git across all deployments to the Google Play Store.

Drove 35% faster user onboarding and 25% increase in new registrations by integrating Google Maps API, Firebase Authentication, and OTP login, eliminating 3 critical login failure points. Led front-end development with responsive UI/UX; set up CI/CD pipelines, managed Git repositories, and enforced push notifications via FCM. Resolved 25+ critical bugs in the Doctor App (10K+ users), improving app stability by 30%; communicated fixes and progress clearly across the team.