Shuja Reshi - Senior Software Engineer

Experience

Software Engineer

Phonepe, Bengaluru

Mar 2026 - Present

Mobile Dev Infra: Automating release process and build systems for Phonepe ecosystem, Payments app (Android/iOS), Indus App Store, Phonepe Business app, and shared KMP modules across iOS and Android.

Senior Software Engineer

Disney+ Hotstar, Bengaluru

Jan 2025 - Feb 2026

Led architecture & delivery of Android Mobile & TV features for the #1 streaming app in India (300M+ MAU), driving major sports & entertainment experiences.
Architected the Conversational Discovery system: evaluated 5+ Speech-to-Text providers, benchmarked WER/latency/cost, and defined a hybrid STT architecture optimized for Indian English & Hinglish code-switching.
Designed and built a new Tooltip/Coachmark System for Android TV, solving complex focus transitions and implementing multi-step interactive tooltips.

Software Development Engineer 2

Disney+ Hotstar, Bengaluru

Aug 2021 - Jan 2025

Designed & implemented the Content Rating system, increasing personalization and boosting watch time by 1.2% across platforms.
Integrated reCAPTCHA, reducing fraudulent SMS traffic by 48% and saving $1M+ monthly in SMS costs.
Served as Game Marshal for IPL, ensuring stability and seamless playback for 20M+ concurrent users during peak live events.
Reduced production issues from 80 to 13 in a quarter through monitoring improvements and cross-team collaboration.
Delivered Google IAP and partner authentication (JioTV, SunTV), enabling seamless login & payment experiences.
Built and shipped email login flows for international regions (Canada, Singapore, UK), supporting 2M+ users.

Application Developer

Magicpin, Gurugram

Jun 2019 - Jul 2021

Built merchant onboarding app in 3 days, accelerating merchant acquisition.
Architected cart creation system for online ordering, delivered in 5 days, enabling a new revenue stream.
Created easyRewards scratch-card system, increasing user engagement by 35% across merchants.
Developed OrderHere (React Native hybrid app), achieving 100K+ downloads with a 4.2 star rating on Play Store.

Android Developer Intern

CRCL, Noida

Jan 2018 - Jun 2019

Built a sports social networking app end-to-end, including complete Android implementation.
Contributed to backend components using Django for improved scalability and data processing.

Skills

Languages

Kotlin Java Python JavaScript Golang

Android

Jetpack Compose Coroutines/Flow Hilt Retrofit Room DataStore Leanback Android TV MVVM

Tools & Frameworks

Firebase Glide Coil Amplitude GitHub Actions Django Flask React Native

Architecture & Design

Clean Architecture Modularization Performance Optimization API Design Feature Flags

Build & Infra

Kotlin Multiplatform Fastlane Gradle CI/CD Release Automation

Projects

ScanEazy

Document scanner app built with Kotlin/Java and OpenCV. Features auto edge detection, perspective correction, noise reduction, image enhancement, and multi-page PDF generation.

Kotlin Java OpenCV

Learned Camera

Android app using Java/Python with a CNN model for real-time object recognition. Includes audio feedback for instant spoken descriptions of nearby objects.

Java Python CNN

Farmacy+

Android app providing 7-day weather forecasts, crop disease detection via ML-based classification, and adaptive farming recommendations via Flask APIs.

Android ML Flask

Android Starter Skill

A Claude skill that scaffolds an Android starter project in seconds, with architecture, tests, and dependencies prewired and ready to open in Android Studio.

Kotlin Claude AI Jetpack Compose

Education

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering

Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida

Jul 2015 - May 2019

GPA: 7.8 / 10.0

Get in Touch

I'm always open to interesting conversations and opportunities. Feel free to reach out.

shuja.reshi@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/shuja-reshi github.com/shujareshi +91-8860513619