I'm Subhan Ali, a Senior Android engineer with 10+ years of building and shipping mobile products across e-commerce, food tech, travel, and fitness tech. I’ve delivered 17+ production applications for brands like Waitrose, Emirates Coop, Volindo, RingMe, and Playbook, taking on roles from core contributor to Android team lead. My expertise spans Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, MVI, MVVM, and Clean Architecture, with production experience in Swift and Flutter. I’m PMP certified and have completed graduate AI coursework from Georgia Tech. I’m passionate about collaborating across Android, iOS, backend, product, design, and QA teams to drive quality and velocity. I enjoy architecting robust offline-first data layers, modern Android architectures, and reusable UI components, always aiming to ship reliable, scalable mobile experiences.

Subhan Ali

I'm Subhan Ali, a Senior Android engineer with 10+ years of building and shipping mobile products across e-commerce, food tech, travel, and fitness tech. I’ve delivered 17+ production applications for brands like Waitrose, Emirates Coop, Volindo, RingMe, and Playbook, taking on roles from core contributor to Android team lead. My expertise spans Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, MVI, MVVM, and Clean Architecture, with production experience in Swift and Flutter. I’m PMP certified and have completed graduate AI coursework from Georgia Tech. I’m passionate about collaborating across Android, iOS, backend, product, design, and QA teams to drive quality and velocity. I enjoy architecting robust offline-first data layers, modern Android architectures, and reusable UI components, always aiming to ship reliable, scalable mobile experiences.

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I’m Subhan Ali, a Senior Android engineer with 10+ years of building and shipping mobile products across e-commerce, food tech, travel, and fitness tech. I’ve delivered 17+ production applications for brands like Waitrose, Emirates Coop, Volindo, RingMe, and Playbook, taking on roles from core contributor to Android team lead. My expertise spans Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, MVI, MVVM, and Clean Architecture, with production experience in Swift and Flutter. I’m PMP certified and have completed graduate AI coursework from Georgia Tech.

I’m passionate about collaborating across Android, iOS, backend, product, design, and QA teams to drive quality and velocity. I enjoy architecting robust offline-first data layers, modern Android architectures, and reusable UI components, always aiming to ship reliable, scalable mobile experiences.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior Android Engineer at Volindo
August 1, 2025 - Present
Architected an offline-first data layer with Room as the single source of truth, implemented Kotlin Coroutines and Flow for reactive state across a paginated feed, notifications, and real-time status updates. Migrated legacy XML views to reusable Jetpack Compose components, integrated complex animations with Lottie, and refactored to an MVI architecture to improve testability. Delivered hotel booking flows with Stripe integration and end-to-end payment handling; built an invitation lifecycle with real-time status syncing and deep link navigation.
Android Lecturer at Metaverseage Training Institute
August 1, 2024 - July 31, 2025
Designed and delivered a full Android engineering curriculum (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, MVVM) for 50+ students, taking them from fundamentals to production-capable capstone apps. Built Python automation to propagate grades/feedback across LMS channels and led voluntary weekend sessions on data structures and algorithms.
Android Developer Freelance at Freelance
November 1, 2023 - July 31, 2025
Shipped multiple Android apps for clients including Waitrose (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, MVI, Clean Architecture), Batch (fitness app with video feed), Riders for Adil (Flutter), Sukoon (Flutter).
Mobile Application Developer at Playbook
November 1, 2021 - November 30, 2023
Sole iOS developer and Android team lead, delivering a consumer deals and discovery platform. Owned end-to-end Android development with Jetpack Compose, MVVM, code reviews, and technical direction.
Android Engineer at 1001 App
March 1, 2018 - November 30, 2021
Contributed to a white-label supermarket platform deployed across UAE brands. Integrated Mastercard and CCAvenue payments, synchronized real-time stock with POS, and authored backend logic via Back4App Parse cloud functions. Led vendor onboarding and data migration, and analyzed crash hotspots with Firebase Analytics.
Android Engineer at Odine Solutions & Swenggco Software
August 1, 2015 - February 28, 2018
Built RingMe messenger with VoIP and PJSIP support and a personal secretary app; both shipped to Play Store.

Education

MS in Computer Science (Coursework) at Georgia Institute of Technology
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2022
Bachelor of Computer Science at The GIFT University
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2015

Qualifications

PMP
January 11, 2030 - March 27, 2026
Deep Learning (DeepLearning.AI)
January 11, 2030 - March 27, 2026
Organizational Leadership (Northwestern Kellogg)
January 11, 2030 - March 27, 2026
Digital Product Management (Darden School of Business)
January 11, 2030 - March 27, 2026

Industry Experience

Travel & Hospitality, Retail, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Education