Hi, I’m Priyanka Patel, a Senior Android engineer with a focus on shipping consumer apps and wearable companion experiences. I specialize in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, MVVM/Clean Architecture, Meta glasses and band, AR/VR, coroutines/Flow, and BLE-driven real-time features. I’m known for owning work end-to-end, providing technical leadership, and improving the reliability of user-facing systems. Throughout my career at Meta, Sprint FWD Ideas, Tomorrow Ideas, and Samsung Electronics, I’ve built scalable mobile architectures, mentored engineers, and delivered robust features from design to release. I’m passionate about turning complex problems into maintainable code and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship high-quality products.…

Priyanka Patel

Hi, I’m Priyanka Patel, a Senior Android engineer with a focus on shipping consumer apps and wearable companion experiences. I specialize in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, MVVM/Clean Architecture, Meta glasses and band, AR/VR, coroutines/Flow, and BLE-driven real-time features. I’m known for owning work end-to-end, providing technical leadership, and improving the reliability of user-facing systems. Throughout my career at Meta, Sprint FWD Ideas, Tomorrow Ideas, and Samsung Electronics, I’ve built scalable mobile architectures, mentored engineers, and delivered robust features from design to release. I’m passionate about turning complex problems into maintainable code and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship high-quality products.…

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Hi, I’m Priyanka Patel, a Senior Android engineer with a focus on shipping consumer apps and wearable companion experiences. I specialize in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, MVVM/Clean Architecture, Meta glasses and band, AR/VR, coroutines/Flow, and BLE-driven real-time features. I’m known for owning work end-to-end, providing technical leadership, and improving the reliability of user-facing systems.

Throughout my career at Meta, Sprint FWD Ideas, Tomorrow Ideas, and Samsung Electronics, I’ve built scalable mobile architectures, mentored engineers, and delivered robust features from design to release. I’m passionate about turning complex problems into maintainable code and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship high-quality products.

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Skills

Experience Level

App Design
Expert
Kotlin
Expert
Android
Expert
Java
Expert
API
Expert

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer - Android at Meta
March 1, 2025 - Present
Owned user-facing EMG reliability and guidance experiences for Meta’s wearable products (Meta Band and glasses), including band tightness detection, orientation & on-body detection, remediation workflows, and in-app bug reporting. Built EMG gesture platform mapping 15+ gestures to app actions across Meta AI experiences on band and smart glasses. Designed real-time hit/tightness monitoring and proactive notifications to prevent gesture degradation; partnered on BLE pairing, Meta Glasses ↔ Meta Band/relay modes, and feature flag rollouts.
Senior Software Engineer - Android at Sprint FWD Ideas
November 1, 2021 - July 1, 2023
Shipped multi-module Witness apps, driving architecture and delivery using Kotlin, MVVM/Clean Architecture, and modern Android libraries. Built Jetpack Compose UI and coroutine/Flow-based data layers to enable scalable feature development. Improved team velocity and quality by mentoring engineers and setting clear review and architecture standards.
Software Engineer - Android at Tomorrow Ideas
November 1, 2019 - October 1, 2021
Delivered core features for a legal document creation app, owning design-to-release implementation in Kotlin. Improved stability by integrating REST services, monitoring crashes, and iterating from user feedback. Modernized the codebase by migrating key modules from Java to Kotlin and shipping Google Play releases.
Android Software Engineer at Samsung Electronics
November 1, 2018 - October 1, 2019
Enhanced Samsung Messaging experiences across chat and group chat features. Implemented HTTP file/media transfer pipelines and collaborated with cross-site teams. Built and integrated multi-threaded components across messaging modules.

Education

Android Developer Nanodegree at Udacity
June 1, 2018 - June 1, 2018
Bachelor of Science at University of Phoenix - Chicago Campus, IL
November 1, 2016 - November 1, 2016

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment
    paper Meta glasses and band gestures

    I have played a crucial role in Meta’s latest wearables (glasses and neural band) gesture mapping. Particularly working on the band handwriting, media controls and camera controls. Please see the demo of the work I have done in this link starting at 23:05 minutes.