Senior Android Engineer & Tech Lead

Hi, I'm Sougandh.
I build Android apps people rely on.

10+ years building, shipping and leading production mobile apps in Kotlin, Java and Flutter, from banking-grade payment systems to a password manager used by millions. I care about clean architecture, well-tested code and helping engineers grow.

Based in Sydney, Australia · Open to Android and mobile engineering roles

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10+years in mobile engineering
300M+users on products I've shipped to
33%faster auto-fill in MEGA Pass
30+developers trained and mentored

Experience

Oct 2025 – Apr 2026

Senior Software Engineer

Synechron · Bengaluru
  • Owned a major part of the Payments module (transfers, bill payments, beneficiaries) in a next-generation retail banking app for a leading UAE bank.
  • Named Top Engineer of the Month (Feb 2026) for delivery on the payments workstream.
  • Raised unit-test coverage across payment flows and automated testing workflows to cut manual QA.
Jan 2023 – May 2025

Senior Android Engineer

MEGA · Remote
  • Owned architecture and release of Search and TOTP authentication for MEGA Password Manager.
  • Improved auto-fill performance by 33% and migrated legacy XML views to Jetpack Compose.
  • Led features end to end across MEGA Cloud and Password Manager, a product with 300M+ users.
Oct 2018 – Jan 2023

IT Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services · Cologne & Kochi
  • Led the FieldCatcher team across two time zones and rebuilt the Android app in Flutter, delivering the MVP ahead of schedule.
  • Integrated TensorFlow and PyTorch models via custom Flutter plugins; set up GitLab + Fastlane CI/CD.
  • Cut load time 25% and reached 80% unit-test coverage, reducing bugs by 45%.
Oct 2014 – Sep 2018

System Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services · Kochi
  • Built Android apps for the UK postal service and telematics IoT apps for a major U.S. insurer.
  • Developed a Dialogflow chatbot for hotel bookings and set up Azure CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Languages
  • Kotlin
  • Java
  • Dart
Android
  • Jetpack Compose
  • Material 3
  • Coroutines & Flow
  • Hilt / Dagger
  • Room
  • Retrofit
  • WorkManager
  • Paging 3
Architecture
  • Clean Architecture
  • MVVM
  • Multi-module
  • TDD
Cross-platform
  • Flutter
  • Platform channels
Testing
  • JUnit
  • MockK
  • Turbine
  • Espresso
  • Compose UI tests
Delivery
  • Gradle KTS
  • GitLab CI/CD
  • Fastlane
  • Firebase
  • Play Console
AI / ML
  • On-device inference
  • TensorFlow
  • PyTorch
  • Dialogflow

Projects

FlagMaster

A time-based Android quiz game that tests your knowledge of world flags, in a visually engaging UI.

Kotlin · Jetpack Compose
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Recycler-sample

A sample Android project exploring RecyclerView patterns and list rendering.

Kotlin · Android
View on GitHub →

MEGA Password Manager

Professional work: Search, TOTP authentication and a 33% faster auto-fill for a privacy app with 300M+ users.

Kotlin · Jetpack Compose
About MEGA Pass →

Contact

I'm looking for my next Android or mobile engineering role in Sydney or remote. The best way to reach me is email.

sougandhmp@gmail.com LinkedIn