Akshay Nandwana

Akshay Nandwana

About Me

Senior Android Engineer with 7+ years delivering high-scale apps in OTT, ed-tech, and finance. Led Jetpack Compose migrations, performance optimizations, and design system rollouts for products reaching 100M+ installs.

Work Experience

MeraBills (Peabody Soft)

June 2025 – Oct 2025

Android Engineer III

  • Partnered with PM/Design/Support to ship an end-to-end Training module (Views) → +10% onboarding interaction; worked with QA to burn down top crashers (−5%).
  • Revamped in-app Help Center with searchable FAQs and embedded video tutorials using Android MediaPlayer.

Ground-Android (In Contract with Google)

June 2024 – December 2025

Android Engineer III

  • −20% app load time, responsiveness up via profiler-guided optimizations and render passes cleanup.
  • Led legacy landscape support rollout; established compatibility guidelines across features.
  • Drove XML→Compose migration (architecture, patterns, docs), improving maintainability/scalability.

Zee5 (100M+ Installs, rated 4.6*, OTT)

April 2022 – March 2024

Android Engineer II

  • Drove −25% APK size and startup performance improvements via asset audits, R8, and dependency cleanup.
  • Lifted rating from ~4.0 to 4.5+ by fixing high-impact UX papercuts and tightening feedback loops.
  • Shipped Compose Design System (Mobile + TV), improving UI consistency and delivery speed.
  • Launched Zee Shorts (reels-like) → +40% time-in-app; partnered with backend/content ops.
  • Instrumented analytics (Mixpanel/Appsflyer/Clevertap) and checkout fixes → +10% revenue.
  • Shipped Zee Wallet (Compose + GraphQL), enabling cross-surface purchases (+10% customers).

Oppia Foundation (In Contract with Google)

May 2020 – April 2022

Android Engineer I

  • Introduced offline-first with coroutines/local cache → +20% usage time in low-connectivity regions.
  • Owned shared UI/unit tests & CI/CD (GitHub Actions) for static analysis; improved reliability & dev speed.
  • Mentored 20+ open-source contributors; Google Summer of Code mentor.

Doubtnut (1M+ Installs, rated 4.0*, Ed-Tech)

Aug 2018 – May 2019

Android Developer

  • Built App Sharing feature → +30% installs via easy peer-to-peer sharing.
  • Developed Daily Quiz using Evernote Android Job & Instacart true-time → +20% daily active users.
  • Enhanced the in-app chatting experience by integrating open graph tags, improving user engagement.

Projects

Android Engineers

January 2024 – Present

Growing a global audience of 21k+ on LinkedIn, 3k+ Substack subscribers, and 1.5k+ on YouTube. Our mission is to bridge the gap between intermediate and expert-level Android engineering.

DailyMandir

March 2025 – Present

Currently serving ~300+ DAU / ~850+ MAU with users in 44+ countries. The app has tracked over 900,000 chants and 20,000+ malas.

Technical Skills / Education

Languages and Frameworks

Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Kotlin Coroutines/Flow, Koin/Hilt/Dagger, Compose Multiplatform/KMP, Room, Paging 3, DataStore, WorkManager, Navigation, ExoPlayer, Retrofit/OkHttp, GraphQL, Firebase (Crashlytics/Remote Config/Analytics), A/B testing & Experiments, Accessibility, Android Studio Profiler, LeakCanary, Espresso/Compose UI Testing, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), R8/ProGuard, Gemini/ChatGPT integration, prompt design, on-device inference.

Techno India NJR Institute of Technology

Graduated May 2018

Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology • Udaipur, Rajasthan

Community & Leadership

Communities

September 2015 – Present

Community Lead and Mentor

  • Mentored 500+ students and 5+ local businesses globally (Pakistan, Italy, Kenya, South Africa, Turkey, US) through Google’s Applied CS Facilitator and Developer Student Club Lead programs.
  • Speaker at 10+ Google Developer Groups events on Java, Kotlin, Android, and developer community growth.
  • Google Summer of Code mentor — guided students in contributing to impactful open-source projects.
  • Mentorship on Topmate — career guidance, resume reviews, and mock interviews for aspiring engineers.
  • Built a global audience: ~20k LinkedIn, 1.5k YouTube, and author of Android Engineers Substack newsletter — publishing Android deep-dives, tutorials, and career insights.
  • Koin Champion — driving adoption and community engagement for Koin DI in Android.