Android engineer · Toronto, Canada

Gideon Paul Arugollu

Building useful thingsMobile products, thoughtful architecture, and tools that make the people around me better.

Experienced Android engineer with 7+ years building high-impact mobile applications across North America and Asia.

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Experience

Wayfair

Toronto · Mar 2024—Now

Software Developer II

Redesigned Android Search for 3M+ daily users, cutting load time by 25% through a new architecture and GraphQL query optimizations.
Built a multi-variant testing framework for A/B and multivariate experiments.
Spearheaded Visual Search implementation on Android.
Contributed to Wayfair’s AI Development Pilot Program, helping define safe and effective AI-assisted engineering practices.
Handled incident triage and post-mortems; mentored junior developers through pairing, reviews, and architecture sessions.

Zoomcar

Bangalore, India · Jun 2021—Nov 2023

Software Developer

Designed a reusable Jetpack Compose UI kit and a modular MVI framework using Kotlin Flows.
Reduced development time by 30% with a shared Kotlin Multiplatform module for iOS and Android.
Enabled launch in 4+ new markets by adding right-to-left language support.
Integrated REST APIs, Crashlytics, and Analytics for real-time product insights.
Led Android release cycles and built push notification and deep-link experiences.
Improved app performance and maintainability with Hilt dependency injection.

Consulting

Mar 2020—Mar 2021

NexGen IT Sourcing · Signature Commercial Solutions

Delivered modular Android components for Capital One and Fifth Third Bank mobile apps.
Modernized legacy codebases with MVVM and Coroutines, reaching 65–70% test coverage and integrating analytics.

Early career

2018—2019

Genius Plaza · Intellastar · Bak USA

Contributed to MVVM refactors, OTA update automation for 10K+ IoT devices, and custom Android ROM development.

Selected project

Retro — Easy Timezones

An independently shipped timezone helper for Android and iOS. Built a reusable design system, learned SwiftUI for the iOS port, and managed both app store releases.

Education

M.S. Computer ScienceState University of New York at Buffalo · 2018

B.S. Computer SciencePrasad V. Potluri Siddhartha Institute of Technology · 2016

Let’s build
something useful.

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