Ramiz Raja

• Working as a key member of the Plume Mobile team to bring a new B2B Plume app to life • Following the Agile development model with 2-week sprints and using MVVM with clean code architecture guidelines.

• Leading a team of 4 members and 2 Android apps at Jirah, the Jirah Sitter app and the Jirah Parent app. • Brought a clean codebase into existence by using MVVM and the latest libraries such as Kotlin Coroutines, Dagger2, Retrofit2, Android Navigation Component, Work Manager, Room, View Model, LiveData, Android Paging, and other Android JetPack libraries. • Delivered the Jirah Sitter app, from inception to deployment in under 6 months so the Jirah Sitter Android app is my baby! • Quickly took over the Jirah Parent app after finishing the Jirah Sitter app, the app was unstable and janky, fixed all the main bugs and improved its UI rendering performance and eliminated all UI janks in under 1 month. • Streamlined deployment process by setting up an automatic build & deployment pipeline using Bitbucket Pipeline and Google Play API. • Wrote a custom Chat SDK using SendBird SDK and published it as a private repo, now used by both Android apps for chat functionality.

• Quickly took over the Unified Remote Android and iOS apps which were already written and had a very large user base (1M+). • Actively worked closely with old developers for effective transfer of the domain knowledge from them to me and also worked closely with the clients to define the goals and milestones. • At a very rapid pace, upgraded the app’s aging codebase from min API 9 to 14 to take advantage of newer APIs and removed duplicated and dead code, all in under 3 months. • Got rid of UI janks due to slow rendering by using GPU and memory profilers to locate code blocks causing them and optimized them to bring the frame rendering time and memory usage under Android Vitals limits. Greatly reduced live image rendering time by at least 3x by moving bitmap uploading to GPU in a background thread and by moving memory allocations out of the canvas drawing pass.