Arif Ahmad

Staff Android Engineer, Brightline Financial - Gradle · Jetpack Compose · MVVM

Brightline Financial

Singapore · SGT (UTC+8)

15+ years experience

Yonsei University

English, Mandarin

Open to work

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Overview

15 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Brightline Financial, where I work on the Android team. Grew the Android team from 3 to 19 engineers. Wrote the Coroutines service that now handles 26 million requests a day. Before that: KPMG and Foxconn. Weekend cricket, weekday chai.

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Roles in mobile apps
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Skills

CoroutinesAndroid performanceJetpack ComposeMVVMGradleKotlin

Open to workLooking for a role

closes in 3 months

Next role: Android Engineer in logistics, Singapore or hybrid

Target roles: Android Engineer
Level: Mid
Industries: Logistics, Developer tools
Work mode: Hybrid
Available: Immediately
Work authorization: Open to relocating
What I'm looking for: A team that ships weekly and owns Android end to end.
Not interested in: Agencies and outsourcing firms

15 years in mobile apps. Strongest at Gradle and Android performance. Available immediately.

Singaporejetpack composecoroutineskotlin

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Experience

Staff Android Engineer
Jul 2022 - Present
Brightline Financial · 4 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Singapore
- Wrote the Jetpack Compose service that now handles 76 million requests a day.
- Shipped 19 launches on the Android team without a rollback.
- Grew the Android team from 3 to 37 engineers.
Engineering Manager
Oct 2018 - Jul 2022
KPMG · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Singapore
- Built the experimentation framework 34 product teams use to ship changes safely.
Senior Android Engineer
Sep 2016 - Oct 2018
Foxconn · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Singapore
- Mentored 11 engineers through their first promotion.
- Built the experimentation framework 39 product teams use to ship changes safely.
Android Engineer
Dec 2012 - Jul 2016
Boston Consulting Group · 3 yr 7 mo · Contract · Singapore
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 39 minutes to under 5.
Android Engineer
Dec 2011 - Dec 2012
Coupang · 1 yr · Full-time · Singapore
- Shipped 29 launches on the Android team without a rollback.
- Cut cold-start time on low-end Android phones by 45%.

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Conference talk: lessons from Android

2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling mobile apps.

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Education

Yonsei University
BA, Electronics and Communication
2006 - 2010

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