Bhavna Priyanka Prasad

Overview

I've spent 20 years on mobile apps - first at Philips, now at Helix Cloud. Cut cold-start time on low-end Android phones by 31%. Before that: Meesho and Myntra. Most at home with MVVM and Jetpack Compose. Learning to draw.

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Oct 2023 - Present
   Helix Cloud · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 16 minutes to under 3.
   • Built the experimentation framework 31 product teams use to ship changes safely.
2. Android Engineer

   Mar 2022 - Oct 2023
   Meesho · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Wrote the Jetpack Compose service that now handles 71 million requests a day.
   • Reduced cloud spend on Android by 28% in two quarters.
3. Senior Android Engineer

   Sep 2018 - Mar 2022
   Myntra · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on Android by 42% in two quarters.
   • Moved 86% of Android traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
4. Engineering Manager

   Feb 2016 - Sep 2018
   Wipro · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Shipped 9 launches on the Android team without a rollback.
5. Engineering Manager

   May 2014 - Nov 2015
   Philips · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Brought on-call pages for Android down from 39 a week to 1.
   • Grew the Android team from 4 to 15 engineers.

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Education

1. IIT Bombay

   B.Tech, Computer Engineering
   2002 - 2006