About Me

Akshay is a Senior Android Engineer and Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Android with 7+ years of experience building and scaling Android apps across OTT, ed-tech, and fintech. He has led Jetpack Compose migrations, performance optimizations, and design system rollouts for products with 100M+ installs. Beyond shipping production apps, he enjoys working in Developer Relations—collaborating with product and engineering teams, improving developer experience through clear documentation and demos, and helping developers adopt complex systems with confidence.

Work Experience

Ground-Android (In Contract with Google)

June 2024 – December 2025

Android Engineer III

MeraBills (Contract)

June 2025 – Oct 2025

Android Engineer III

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

April 2022 – March 2024

Android Engineer II

Oppia Foundation (In Contract with Google)

May 2020 – April 2022

Android Engineer I

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

Aug 2018 – May 2019

Android Developer

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.