I possess over 10 years of hands-on experience in Android app development, with a focused dedication to mastering cross-platform development using Flutter over the past 4 years. I am eager to leverage my leadership skills and technical expertise to drive impactful improvements in project metrics and foster team success. My professional journey spans mobile engineering leadership, founding my own project, and mentoring development teams with an emphasis on optimizing user experience and app performance.

Saurabh Lahoti

I possess over 10 years of hands-on experience in Android app development, with a focused dedication to mastering cross-platform development using Flutter over the past 4 years. I am eager to leverage my leadership skills and technical expertise to drive impactful improvements in project metrics and foster team success. My professional journey spans mobile engineering leadership, founding my own project, and mentoring development teams with an emphasis on optimizing user experience and app performance.

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I possess over 10 years of hands-on experience in Android app development, with a focused dedication to mastering cross-platform development using Flutter over the past 4 years. I am eager to leverage my leadership skills and technical expertise to drive impactful improvements in project metrics and foster team success. My professional journey spans mobile engineering leadership, founding my own project, and mentoring development teams with an emphasis on optimizing user experience and app performance.

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Expert

Work Experience

Mobile Engineering Lead at Zinc Money
April 1, 2024 - Present
Led app and web development using Flutter for mobile and web with a functional and declarative approach. Implemented AI-first development approaches with Cursor and Claude. Developed networking, design, and analytics modules for cross-project integration. Created a backend config-driven onboarding module, significantly reducing onboarding drop-off by ~78%. Achieved crash rate and ANR less than ~0.02%. Set up automated unit tests and CI/CD pipelines. Created Firebase functions for remote config requiring no human action.
Mobile Developer & Founder at Gamerboard (Self funded project)
April 1, 2024 - August 27, 2025
Built the core engine to record the BGMI and FreeFire matches and submit scores natively. Developed client-facing UI in Flutter for future cross-platform deployment. Set up automated unit tests and CI/CD for app releases including in-app updates and percentage rollout mechanisms. Optimized app memory consumption by 50% and CPU usage by 35%. Achieved 1.5K DAU in 4 months post-launch. Released and monitored A/B tests to optimize user journeys resulting in 23% and 6% Week 1 and Month 1 retention improvements.
Software Development Engineer 3 at Acko General Insurance
January 1, 2024 - August 27, 2025
Built the Health Insurance line of business from ground up using Flutter and Bloc architecture, creating a single codebase for both iOS and Android, reducing app size from 50MB to 17MB. Mentored a team of 3 developers responsible for code reviews and merges. Implemented in-app experience for raising, tracking, and settling claims and policy management. Created fitness tracking & rewarding features that increased average user's daily app time from 5 mins to 15 mins. Developed segment-first feature of Advance Cash allowing cash provision in Acko wallet before treatment. Increased app downloads from 200K to 5.8M and active users from 10K to 1.2M. Raised NPS score for health claims from 3.6 to 7.5.
Android Lead & Founding Member at Rooter, New Delhi
November 1, 2020 - August 27, 2025
Built app from scratch featuring fantasy games and scorecards using Firestore and RxAndroid. Developed PUBG game ranking finder and room creation technology using Cloud Vision API. Implemented LIVE broadcasting, transcoding and game streaming features with Agora Client, media projection and audio recorder, YouTube and Facebook LIVE. Optimized APK size to about 20MB, very low in the category. Developed notification and deep linking frameworks with remote feature delivery and A/B tests. Used Kotlin with coroutines and MVVM with Data Binding. Ranked top 10 free games on Play Store with Week 1 retention >30% and 99.5% stability.
Android Developer at Kalagato, New Delhi
December 1, 2016 - August 27, 2025
Worked in team to create app deriving consumer insights driving growth and engagement. Used Facebook's GraphQL to optimize payload delivery and MPAndroidChart library for data visualization. Optimized network bandwidth and battery usage.
Android Developer at Click Labs, Chandigarh
September 1, 2016 - August 27, 2025
Learned Android from scratch in one month and started contributing to production line projects. Worked on multiple projects with different use cases including Google Login and OAuth APIs. Managed contributions across several projects concurrently.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (Software Engineering) at Delhi Technological University
January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2015

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Gaming, Financial Services, Healthcare