Vinay Shenoy
Engineering Lead at Qweebi

Hands-on engineering lead for the company. Took point on architecting and building the server applications, as well as setting up important infrastructure for continuous delivery on the backend, frontend, and native desktop applications.

• Responsible for planning and coordinating execution of engineering solutions to meet company objectives within acceptable budgets.
• Set up the continuous integration and deployment workflows of native 3D applications to multiple platforms and stores (Windows, mac App Store, Google Play Store).
• Responsible for building and maintaining the backend servers for the native desktop application.
• Set up automated testing pipelines for the desktop and server applications.
• Set up interviewing and hiring pipelines for the company, including automated hiring workflows on ATS systems.

Served as team lead of a team of 4 developers (including me) working on the Simple.org mobile application. While here, I was responsible for facilitating the rest of the team on executing features on the app, while also working on frameworks and infrastructure to reduce engineering friction and improve delivery. I am particularly proud of the fact that the product we worked on went on win the 'Best In Show' award at the IxDA Design Awards 2020.

• Lead the team responsible for developing the Simple.org mobile app.
• Worked closely with design and server engineering team to plan and execute features.
• Migrated the mobile application from an older frontend architecture to a new one to support faster engineering cycles.
• Built meta-programming tooling to estimate and track progress of the aforementioned architecture migration.
• Developed several frameworks to support performance optimization of the mobile app based on production data.
• Developed systems to remotely manage the amount of data the app used on mobile devices of the users.
• Worked on several infrastructure related projects related to automated testing and CI/CD in order to improve engineering workflows.

Worked as a senior engineer on the Simple.org mobile application. While here, I put my expertise in building Android applications to good use, while expanding my skillset on infrastructure related tools like automated testing and CI/CD. In addition, I grew to appreciate the value of a user experience driven development process.

• One of the core team members responsible for developing the Simple.org Android application.
• Planned and executed multiple core features of the Simple app.
• Writing and maintaining automated unit and integration tests as part of the CI/CD workflow.
• Integrated analytics tools and created dashboards for measuring and sharing impact of changes with the product team.
• Worked closely with the design team to scope and plan feature execution with a focus on end user experience.
• Built automated workflows for building and releasing the app on the Google Play Store.
• Integrated tooling to introduce a standardized workflow for bringing in translated copy into the app for localization.

• Built POCs to explore the feasibility of digital home interior design using Augmented Reality (AR) technology.
• Core engineer on a web platform for 3D visualization of home interiors.
• Built and maintained an Android tablet application used by home interior designers to conduct remote home interior design sessions with homeowners.
• Worked closely with the web application developers to plan and implement a real-time messaging framework to support constructing and controlling a 3D interior design on the web application with real-time pricing integration.
• Built a server application to support uploading and managing 3D assets for use in the online home interior design application.
• Developed custom 3D model formats to optimize 3D assets for online streaming.

• Was one of the early employees for a startup that was aiming to improve the home interior shopping experience by building visualization solutions using modern technologies like WebGL.
• Built an internal tool to streamline the upload process for 3D assets to the asset servers, which drastically reduced the time required and the chance of human errors when uploading assets.
• Prototyping a virtual-reality experience for visualizing home interiors and deployed it in multiple showrooms across Bengaluru.

• Developed features for the Flipkart eBooks mobile application (Android).
• Unified infrastructure in the application codebase to facilitate future development.
• Worked with design and product teams to scope out and implement features within reasonable timelines.
• Worked closely with the QA team to resolve issues found with the application before releases.
• Being part of the on-call rotation for monitoring server issues and reporting faults to the relevant teams during outages.

• Developed core features of Android applications for multiple clients.
• Worked closely with the UI/UX team to build features as per specifications.
• Worked closely with the server engineering team to design and integrate API contracts for the mobile applications.
• Built internal libraries to share across multiple projects to speed up development on new projects.