Android Engineer · Bengaluru, India

Android, built
to scale & last.

I'm Surendra Kumar Patel — an Android engineer with 5+ years shipping scalable, high-performance apps across healthtech and edtech. Kotlin and Jetpack Compose on the surface; Clean Architecture, MVI and BLE underneath.

5+
Years building Android
100%
Kotlin-first development
SIH '20
National hackathon winner
01 — About

Engineer first.
Always have been.

I'm an Android engineer with 5+ years of experience building scalable, high-performance mobile applications with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and modern Android architecture. I've shipped products across healthtech and edtech — designing reusable platform components, lifting user engagement, and optimizing performance.

More recently my work has gone deeper into the platform: BLE stack development, IoT security, biometric authentication and encrypted storage. I care about Clean Architecture, predictable MVI state, and code that a team can pick up and extend without friction.

Alongside engineering, I run Tejvon — a technology studio and personal brand — where I build tools of my own and write for developers. I'd rather ship the simplest design that works than the cleverest one that doesn't.

02 — Expertise

The toolkit.

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Languages & Frameworks

KotlinJava Jetpack ComposeCoroutines FlowSwift SwiftUIREST · JSON
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Architecture & Design

Clean ArchitectureMVI MVVMSOLID Dagger / HiltRoom RetrofitWorkManager NavigationFirebase
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Specialized

BLE Stack DevelopmentIoT Security Biometric AuthSQLCipher
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Performance & Quality

R8 / ProGuardAPK Size Reduction Gradle OptimizationMemory Profiling JUnitMockito Espresso

Tools & platforms: Android Studio · Xcode · Git & Bitbucket · Jira · Postman · Google Play Console  ·  CS fundamentals: Data Structures & Algorithms · System Design · Material Design

03 — Experience

Where I've worked.

Dec 2025 — Present Bengaluru

Android Engineer

MSM Consultancy  ·  Client: Tata Elxsi

  • Designed a custom fragmentation protocol for BLE communication, enabling reliable transmission of payloads up to 10KB.
  • Architected anti-MITM security with secure pairing, key-exchange validation and session-based authentication.
  • Improved data throughput by 22% via MTU optimization, batching and efficient payload encoding.
  • Led the migration to an MVI architecture and built reusable BLE components with CRC-16 integrity validation.
Nov 2023 — Nov 2024 Remote

Mobile App Developer

Indus Hindi  ·  EdTech

  • Built native Android (Kotlin, Compose) and iOS (Swift, SwiftUI) apps on a clean MVVM architecture.
  • Architected offline-first learning with Room, enabling uninterrupted access to educational content.
  • Redesigned the quiz UI/UX in Compose — a 25% improvement in completion rates.
Jul 2024 — Nov 2024 Hyderabad

Android Developer

Thinkhat Software Pvt. Ltd.  ·  HealthTech

  • Built healthcare apps (Noki, Patient Portal) with Kotlin, Compose, MVVM and Retrofit — 25% faster cycles.
  • Integrated AI speech-to-text via Azure Cognitive Services for accessible clinical voice input.
  • Developed a multi-tenant Firebase authentication system, cutting login issues by 32%.
Nov 2022 — Jun 2024 Mysore

Android Developer

Tosko Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

  • Launched the Tosko Academics App on Google Play with Firebase auth and ExoPlayer video delivery.
  • Reduced APK size by 20% via R8 and resource shrinking; cut Gradle build time by 65%.
  • Led the legacy XML-to-Compose migration, improving screen load times by 25%.
Jan 2021 — Oct 2022 Remote

Android Developer & Consultant

Independent  ·  Early-stage startups

  • Delivered 6+ Android apps across healthtech, edtech and commerce — functional MVPs in 5–10 weeks.
  • Worked directly with non-technical founders, owning the full lifecycle through to Play Store release.
  • Built on MVVM and Clean Architecture for maintainable, hand-off-ready code.
04 — Personal Projects

Things I build for myself.

Apps I designed and shipped on my own time. Download the APKs to try them on any Android device.

001 Ongoing · 2025

Habit Tracker

A production-grade habit tracker with encrypted local storage (SQLCipher), biometric authentication and gamification — XP, achievements and streaks. Built on multi-module Clean Architecture with an MVI (Orbit) pattern.

KotlinCompose MVI · OrbitRoom · SQLCipher Hilt
APK coming soon
002 Personal · 2024

AI Chat Assistant

An AI-powered Android assistant with voice-to-text chat — Azure Speech Services for input and the OpenAI GPT-4 API for responses, wrapped in a modern Compose UI on a structured MVVM architecture.

KotlinCompose OpenAI GPT APIRetrofit MVVM
003 Personal · 2023

WhatsApp Status Saver

A lightweight utility to preview, download and manage WhatsApp statuses locally — no root required. Uses Android file-system APIs to read media directories, with Glide and Picasso for smooth image loading.

JavaXML Android SDKGlide Picasso
004 APK Collection

Download & Review APKs

A shared Drive folder with installable APKs of my personal apps — open for anyone who wants to try, test and review them on a real device.

AndroidSample Builds
05 — Professional Work

Work shipped with teams.

Selected products built for companies and clients. Some are internal or hardware-bound, so not all are publicly downloadable.

001 Current

BLE Communication Platform

A secure Bluetooth Low Energy stack for a connected hardware device — custom payload fragmentation, anti-MITM pairing, CRC-16 integrity checks and adaptive retry logic. Built in Kotlin with firmware-team collaboration.

KotlinBLE / GATT MVICRC-16
Client project · embedded device
002 HealthTech

Noki & Patient Portal

Healthcare apps built with Kotlin, Compose, MVVM and Retrofit — featuring AI speech-to-text for clinical voice input and a multi-tenant Firebase authentication system with tenant-isolated token handling.

KotlinCompose Azure SpeechFirebase
Internal · HealthTech product
003 Live on Play Store

Tosko Academics App

An edtech learning app launched on Google Play — Firebase authentication, an ExoPlayer-based video delivery system and a push-notification pipeline for course updates, with a 20% smaller APK after R8 tuning.

KotlinFirebase ExoPlayerR8
004 Play Store

More on Google Play

Additional production apps shipped across edtech, healthtech and commerce are published under my Google Play developer profile.

AndroidPlay Console
06 — Recognition & Education

Credentials.

2020 · National Level Winner

Smart India Hackathon 2020

Team Lead · Government of India

Led a six-member team to design an IoT-based automatic waste segregation system using Arduino, sensors and embedded systems. Won first place at the national level and received a ₹50,000 prize from the Government of India.

2017 — 2020 · First Division

Bachelor of Computer Applications

UIET, Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University — Kanpur

Completed a BCA with a First Division, building the computer-science foundation — data structures, algorithms and software design — behind my engineering work.

Certifications
Kotlin for Java Developers JetBrains · Coursera
Leadership Development Program MHRD's Innovation Cell, Govt. of India
Intellectual Property Rights Workshop IIT Kanpur · MSME

Let's build something.

Open to senior Android opportunities and engineering collaborations. The fastest ways to reach me are below.