Contact Dhananjay Kulkarni

Over 10 years of dedicated experience in mobile development, involved in end-to-end

Phone project lifecycle which includes project management, communication with users, other
technical teams. Experience & good proficiency in Android SDK, Kotlin, Javascript.
+91-9923234011 / +91- 8208274498
Worked in collaborative environments with a team of developers, managing
Email stakeholders and cross-cultural clients. Core strengths have been design abilities,
dhananjaykulkarni19@gmail.com resolving complex technical issues & developing test plans. Contributed my skills to
projects that demand a combination of technical solutions and collaborative spirit.
LinkedIn
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Key Achievements
Location
Delivery of Flutter mobile app within 3 months
Pune, India Designed and developed a Flutter mobile app from scratch. Implemented all possible standard practices
like Git CI/CD integration, modularization, state-driven UI, unit testing, etc.

Core competencies Refactoring of Android app from Java to Kotlin

Refactored a major chunk of the legacy code base to Kotlin. Shifted traditional XML-based UI to Jetpack
Compose. This helped in increasing app performance, UI rendering and device battery utilization, increase
Kotlin, Java in code coverage by 30%. Handled release process which involved compiling of release notes, pushing
updates to Google Play Store.
Android SDK
MVVM, MVP Created reusable UI module in Kotlin
Responsible for creating a new UI module that can be reused in the project. This resulted in a reduction of
Jetpack compose a lot of boilerplate code and created uniformity in UI across the project.

Flutter Earned “Star of the month” credential for a critical feature delivery
React Native Collaborated with client & in-house team for implementation & delivery of critical feature - “Open
banking”. Responsible for development, testing & production support. We exposed the API of this feature
Clean architecture to third-party eCommerce sites like Amazon. The authentication was handled on the mobile app.

SOLID principles
Experience
Data structures & algorithms
Javascript ThoughtWorks Technologies India Pvt. Ltd, Pune

Continuous Integration Senior consultant - Mobile development

June 2023 - July 2024
Unit and UI automated testing
As a Senior Consultant, responsible for contribution in solution designing, actual
Collaborative working implementation of the solution, peer code reviews and mentoring team
members. We collaboratively delivered a high-quality production-level mobile
Team management
application within a tight timeframe of three months. Adopted React native
Leadership & mentoring within 4 weeks for a government initiated UPI based mobile application.

Mega Ltd, New Zealand (Remote)

Sr. engineer - Android
March 2022 - April 2023
As an independent contributor, took full ownership of end-to-end feature
Education development. Responsibilities include crafting the architecture of features,
coding in Jetpack Compose, and ensuring the highest quality through rigorous
unit testing. Actively collaborated with the product manager and QA team,
2014
providing testing support and promptly addressing any defects that arise.
MCA Actively involved in code reviews and continuous input to code optimizations.
University of Pune As a remote organization we all were based in various parts of the world hence
we had to adopt to each others time-zones.
2011
B.Sc. Computer Science
Shivaji University, Kolhapur
 Wipro Limited, Pune
Sr. Android developer
November 2020 - March 2022
Role included the implementation of specific app features. Actively engaged in
solution meetings, provided valuable insights for proposed solutions. The role
extends to writing comprehensive unit test cases. Actively participated in code
reviews and contributed to the ongoing code optimizations. Proactively took on
the task of creating a new UI module that is common to the entire project and
can be used anywhere in the project. This helped in reducing boilerplate code.

Accenture solutions, Pune

Application development senior analyst
August 2018 - November 2020
As a member of the Barclays Mobile Banking Android team, my role involved
feature development from requirement gathering to end-to-end
implementation. Actively engaged in solution meetings, I contribute insights and
provide hands-on development with full ownership of proposed features. My
responsibilities extend to providing testing support, addressing defects, and
participating in code reviews.

tCognition consultancy Pvt. Ltd.

Software engineer - Android
August 2016 - June 2018
Together as a team we developed a telematics based android application which
enabled communication with cars. The app was only available in US & Canada. I
was responsible for creating different flavours of the same app with different
branding and without writing entire code again.

CarIQ Pvt. Ltd. (May 2015 - Sept 2015)

Software engineer - Android
May 2015 - Sept 2015
My role was to implement Bluetooth low energy (BLE) API to establish a
connection with a Car ECU connector. With the help of this we tracked the car
health and measured parameters like engine oil level, tyre pressure, break fluid,
error codes for various software errors in cars.

Intellection software Pvt. Ltd.

Software developer
August 2014 - April 2015
I was a part of android application development team specially created for
implementation of ERP system android application