SUMMARY

• 5 years of experience in Android application development (Android 6.0 and below)
• Passionate about developing Android Applications
• Extensive knowledge of Java, Android, Javascript, HTML/CSS, XML
• Integration of various social networking APIs like Facebook, Twitter, Linked - In into application.
• Worked on various Android libraries including Fragments, WebView, Layouts
• Worked on third party libraries including Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) API, Google Maps API
• Knowledge of local database files management using SQLite
• Expertise in Data Structures, Multithreading, Collections, Exception handling and Serialization.
• Worked using web services an JSON parser for data retrieval in Mobile Apps
• Experience in architecture design, development and implementation of software applications and testing.
• Expertise in Object Oriented Architecture, Design and Programming from design to implementation
• Have hands-on experience in complete project life cycle, with domain knowledge in Mobile Application Development and Web application development.
• Experience working with different operating systems like Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
• Ability to coordinate with various team members involved in the project.
• Strong communication, multi-tasking, and organizational skills
• Motivated team player with a positive attitude and a drive to deliver results in time
• Looking for challenging roles and willing to work anywhere in the US

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix, Android

Coding Languages: HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, Java, Android libraries, SQL, GIT, GITHub

Methodologies: Agile

Software: MS Office, Android Design Studio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Francisco CA

Android Developer

Responsibilities:

• The “Trulia” app provides real estate listings including photos, video tours, interactive maps. Users can search for nearby homes for sale, apartments for rent and open houses. It connects users with agents, property managers and mortgage lenders to offer solutions.
• Worked on prototyping of initial redesign
• Worked intensively with UI/UX designers to improve the User Interface.
• Worked with CoreLocation API, sharing the user’s locations
• Worked on MAPS SDK to display user location and directions.
• Performance optimizations to improve the mobile experience
• Involved in unit testing and bug fixes to improve the App experience
• Device testing, Documentation updates, Demo functionality to testing team and beta users

Confidential, New York, NY

Android Developer

Responsibilities:

• The “ Confidential Investments” app allows users to trade, manage money, deposit checks and pay bills.
• Worked on heavy coding, bug fixing and unit testing.
• Worked with android components such as activities, intents, services, and custom UI components such as Text View, customized List View, Relative and Table layouts, Web view and menus.
• Heavy coding improvements, creation of reusable common code component library
• Performed Code optimization, Performance tuning on certain functional modules of the App
• Expertise in integration, troubleshooting, debugging and testing application across simulator and few Android devices that run on various OS version.
• Bug fixes for performance improvements
• Develop and coded logic needed for several aspects of the app
• Experience in implementation of the SDLC process using Agile methodology
• Used MVC to design and architect the coding modules
• Utilized Git Enterprise for source control

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Android Developer

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is a social media management tool created to halp businesses manage their social media efforts more effectively and efficiently. When used with you're Confidential account, it offers team or individual engagement and publishing tools with in-depth analytics, brand monitoring, competitive insights and social CRM features. Confidential is known for its intuitive, easy to use web and mobile platform.
• Improvising UI layouts, positioning graphics, incorporating Web View Android API
• Integrating web API in front end user interface, JSON parsing for accessing data from database
• Building mobile apps in an Agile and fast paced setting
• Used Async Task for multithreading
• Worked on an Android service to download and upload content from back end web server via REST API. Worked on an Android Service to implement the Push Notification.
• Worked on local data storage using shared-preference.
• Worked on Error handling module enhancements and bug fixes
• Implemented coding methodologies targeting all devices running various Android OS version including Android 6.0.
• Updated User and Technical Documentation for maintenance purposes and future improvements

Confidential, Newark NJ

Junior Android Developer

Responsibilities:

• Use of the SMMRY API to summarize articles for better viewing
• Use of Firebase to provide both anonymous and username-based chat between users
• Implementation of an integrated calendar (synced with Google by way of the Google Calendar API) in order to allow users to keep track of their doctor's appointments
• Implementation of a daily journal to allow users to keep track of their thoughts, pain levels, medication, etc
• Use of Retrofit and OkHttp to pull article data from the web
• Use of the DarkSky API to provide weather data
• Use of the Environmental Protection Agency API to pull UV Index information
• Use of OAuth to handle user login for all Google-related services
• Creation of a splash screen and intro slider to improve polish and improve UX
• Maintaining build and release documentation (ie. Changelogs) in order to facilitate proper deployment

Confidential, Newark NJ

Junior Android Developer

Responsibilities:

• Utilize OAuth to allow user login for Twitter
• Use of the Twitter API to retrieve user information and profile picture to increase personalization
• Use of the SMMRY API to pull news article information and summarize it in order to give users a glimpse at the article's contents
• Used the DarkSky API to handle weather calls
• Use of web request protocols like OkHttp and Retrofit to pull article data