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YUVARAJAN RADHAKRISHNAN

Canton,MI

Summary

Skilled, efficient and passionate Software Engineering lead with 15+ years of Android Development experience with knowledge of complete product lifecycle through requirements, analysis, data modelling, design, development of projects. Possesses responsible leadership qualities leading a team of software engineers creating unique and modern applications available in Playstore. Experience in mentoring and managing offshore teams in Agile and Extreme programming and Test-driven development.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Lead

FORD Motor Company
09.2021 - Current

Ford Experience :

  • Experience in Pair programming which helps to connect with different people very closely to code, live review, eXtreme programming and test driven development.
  • Experience in Leading multiple teams of engineers, mentoring on deliverables, timelines and make sure team is delivering on-time with zero defects.
  • Experience in working and collaborate and suggesting clean code architecture with big team of around 100+ around world in different countries like Europe, Asia pacific, and North America.
  • Involved in different phase of product development and agile software methodology, participated in various workshops, and software tool decision making process.
  • Been part of leading delivery of around 5-6 features as part of Fordpass/lincolnway 2.0, 3.0 globally.
  • Currently leading development team responsible of potential $400 million revenue growth feature.

Energy (EV Battery information):

  • Hire, Build/form new Energy feature team to deliver, focus on applying SRE for Ev features.
  • Mentor & Train TPMs and Engineers with SRE knowledge and how to apply them towards meaningful data to gather actionable insights with the help of visual dashboards.
  • Actively pursue SLOs to improve performance and analyze data from Dynatrace, Splunk and Amplitude to improve customer experience with more clear failure messages.
  • Provide constant feedback to screen designs in Figma with technical feasibility with respect to Android architecture.
  • Lead initiative towards reducing Api calls and increase improve performance of home screen to load data in less than 2 seconds with more caching.
  • Constantly improve framework libraries to latest Android market including the co-routines, flow.
  • Contribute to simplify UI designs with latest framework like jetpack compose to smoother performance.
  • Review PRs to adhere clean code architecture.

Ford Design System (UI library) :

  • Hire/ build team to create new UI library which includes all granular components using jetpack compose library to be consumed across multiple Ford applications.
  • Experience in creating proof of concepts for new design or architectural changes needed
  • Define stories and prioritize components to be delivered for each release based on end-user team needs.
  • Performed real user testing and Delivered around 50-60 components including Listview(Items) to collapsible widget with Accessibility.

Anchor /Manager

Ford - Cognizant Technologies Solutions
03.2017 - 08.2021

Accident Assistance:

  • Setup meetings with stake holders as part of Discovery phase to define requirements to initiate feature
  • Provide/ Define required Scheme for Apis to be consumed to microservices/ backend team for around 5 -10 endpoints.
  • Collaborate with Vehicle/ TDK team to understand necessary signals to be consumed for feature and improve efficiency by setting up more testing with multiple data based on signals.
  • Increased efficiency by reducing need of around 50 signals to less than 10 for better user experience.
  • Helping team to make right decisions on implementing new UX for simple and efficient screens for user perspective.

Pickup And Delivery:

  • Lead a team of around 8 developers for building one of a top features for Lincoln brand of vehicles for Ford.
  • Allocate the daily stories to each pairs based on the priority from Pivotal tracker
  • Do Pair Programming along with TDD for defect free
  • Had around 5k reservation through lincolnway app on launching of feature which is still the number one feature.

Android Developer

COMCAST – Infosys
03.2015 - 03.2017

Streams:

  • STREAMS android app for Comcast customers to view/manage their linear/vod channels and programs on their mobile and tablets.
  • This is IP based application which enables around 500k subscribers to view channels which eliminates use of STB box in reduced price.
  • This application will be replacing traditional STB box for every customer who are subscribed to Comcast.
  • This will serve all linear and VOD channel through streaming over any network like Netflix.
  • It includes Integration of social networking APIs like Facebook and twitter in app.

Android Developer

SiriusXM - Infosys
01.2013 - 03.2015
  • Sirius XM Holdings is American broadcasting company that provides three satellite radio and online radio services operating in United States: Sirius Satellite Radio, XM Satellite Radio, and Sirius XM Radio
  • It has total of more than 18.5 million subscribers based on current subscriber numbers
  • SXMK2 android app where SirusXM radio content is available to stream online radio application which includes streaming of more than 500 channels .it includes development of playback of large number of chunks distributed across 5 hours of play in .m3u8 format
  • Implemented and handled HLS audio stream techniques, play/skip features and various other features of app
  • Which involves streaming of encrypted audio content for paid users using HLS streaming
  • Responsibilities:
  • Analysis and understanding of business requirements and implement process using Sprint and Agile (Scrum) methodology
  • Designed and developed various modules of application with Android framework
  • Write front end code for developing new screens using xml files
  • Implemented JAVA/J2EE design patterns such as Factory, DAO, Session Façade and Singleton
  • Developed parsing .m3u8 files which is used for splitting audio chunks
  • Worked on SQLite as backend database
  • Designed UI modules using Android studio
  • Develop and execute Unit Test plans using JUnit, ensuring that results are documented and reviewed with Quality Assurance teams responsible for integrated testing

Android Developer

Comcast - Infosys
10.2009 - 03.2012

Astro :

  • Comcast Astro application allows customers to have Audio and Video calls with HD quality and text chat with their Skype buddies through their HD TV
  • Astro customers can sync their Skype Address book with Comcast Plaxo address book to have universal Address book on TV
  • User can watch their favorite programs in TV and simultaneously chat / call their Comcast customers/friends/neighbors across nation
  • Analysis and understanding of business requirements and implement process using Sprint and Agile (Scrum) methodology
  • Involved in Technical Design Discussions
  • Responsible for requirement analysis, design, develop, implementation and testing application using Android framework/J2EE technologies
  • Involved in writing complete integration of Skype SDK with contacts directory.

JAVA DEVELOPER

Verizon -Infosys
11.2007 - 10.2009
  • DCW is migration project of ordering system for Voice, video and data services
  • DCW uses spring as web application that makes it more secure communication and rich UI
  • Migration is from Vb.net to java
  • Basic advantage is faster negotiation of data when compared to VB counterpart used in previous cases
  • Idea is also to segregate each service (data, voice and video) independent of BAU.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics communication and Engineering

Anna University
India
05.2007

Skills

  • Kotlin , Coroutine , Jetpack Compose , Mockk , TDD
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Performance Tracking and Evaluations
  • Project Coordination
  • Multithreaded Software Applications
  • Architectural Pattern Development
  • Android Software Development
  • Code Review
  • Requirements Gathering and Analysis

Timeline

Engineering Lead

FORD Motor Company
09.2021 - Current

Anchor /Manager

Ford - Cognizant Technologies Solutions
03.2017 - 08.2021

Android Developer

COMCAST – Infosys
03.2015 - 03.2017

Android Developer

SiriusXM - Infosys
01.2013 - 03.2015

Android Developer

Comcast - Infosys
10.2009 - 03.2012

JAVA DEVELOPER

Verizon -Infosys
11.2007 - 10.2009

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics communication and Engineering

Anna University
YUVARAJAN RADHAKRISHNAN