I Am Karan Trehan An Engineering Manager A Developer A Writer A Problem Solver

April 2024 - Present • New Delhi / Remote

• Leading the product delivery of AI services in the org

January 2023 - March 2024 • New Delhi / Remote

• Leading and managing a team of 12+ software engineers while we build population scale open source software systems for India
• Expanded management from mobile only to mobile, web, devops, QA and AI teams
• Worked across Eduction, Agriculture, Finance and Judiciary among other domains domains
• Played an important role in designing large systems which can run on limiting processing power hardware
• Defined the software management process in the organization - Sprints, Retros, Demo Days, DevBoxes, Ticket Management, RCAs, etc..
• Worked with architects and developers across various state organizations to design and develop governance solutions
• Improved the stability of products across multiple domains
• Worked on reducing the cost of running programs across geographies
• Leading the eduction & people-connect domain AI services at the organization
• Led multiple community building inititatives in the org

May 2022 - November 2022 • Bengaluru / Remote

• Managing the excellence pod of Android and iOS engineers at Driver platform building the driver app for our driver partners
• Managed 11+ Android and iOS engineers
• Responsible for building the platform on which other engineers and pods would develop their feature sets on
• Focussed on people management, mentoring, hiring, prioritizing tasks, clarifying requirements, writing documentation, resolving blockers, coordinating with design, business, product, QA and backend to build features
• Worked on unifying the architectures of our Android and iOS apps, prototyping cross-platform mobile tech & introducing Kotlin multiplatform to the driver platform
• Also managed the modularising of our existing Android app from a monolith, extracted out all the base functionalities and created scripts / tools to help other clusters do the same for their feature sets quickly
• Worked with the team on implementing an in-house analytics system removing our dependency on external vendors across Android and iOS

March 2021 - May 2022 • Remote

• Leading & managing the User spend pod at Gopay (GoTo Financial) building promo and discoverability features
• Working with the team in evaluating new frameworks to build apps in
• Worked with Flutter to build multiple systems from scratch like navigation, networking, analytics & server driven UI
• Managed feature development in Flutter for the gopay app
• Working on standardizing the mobile interview process across gojek and gopay

June 2020 - February 2021 • Bengaluru / Remote

• Lead the consumer pod Android team at gopay
• Lead the team in integrating an online bank in the Gojek app
• Lead the team in rebuilding Transaction history for Gopay
• Also participated in a standardizing the Android interview process at Gopay

January 2020 - June 2020 • Bengaluru, India

• Working with the Gopay mobile team
• Developed a currency helper for usage across all Gojek products
• Developed the Gopay Home Bar
• Developed the Gopay Social flows

June 2018 - December 2019 • Mumbai, India

• Responsible for developing features for the consumer app with 50K daily active users at that time
• Designed and led the Kotlin + MVVM migration of the app
• Setup & contributed to the official tech blog
• Led the AR experiments for the organization using ArCore
• Led the design and development of the internal analytics system on mobile
• Led the migration of the orders features on the Android app
• Developed the Gift registry module on the Android app
• Developed the omnichannel module on the Android app
• Developed the support module on the Android app

May 2017 - December 2018 • Remote

• Classroom mentor for the Android Basics Nanodegree and Android Development programs.
• Mentoring students for concepts, strategies, projects and the philosophy of Android development.

April 2016 - June 2018 • Mumbai, India

• Leading the development, testing and maintenance of all the Android solutions provided by the organization
• Led & designed the offline-first development approach
• Rearchitected the app from scratch to support low-end devices
• Led the development of POS extension SDKs
• Led the design of the autentication system rewrite
• Created Android Studio templates to easily create glued components for screens
• Developed an mSwipe extension app

January 2014 - March 2016 • Mumbai, India

• Led the marketing and development efforts for the organization
• Helped with sales as well as R&D
• Led a team of 4 developers working on backend APIs and Android development
• Led the development of POS extension SDKs
• Developed systems for pharma, education, sports, voice, sports & security

November 2012 - March 2016 • Mumbai, India

• Developed systems for internal products
• Helped in Sales and R&D

November 2012 - October 2013 • Mumbai, India

• Developed websites for educational institutions using Joomla