About

Ajay Kumar Meher is an experienced Android Lead with over 10 years of industry experience in multiple domains. He has worked with flagship products such as Moj, ShareChat, Leasing Product, Operator App, TaxiForSure App, and Cross Connect App, among others. Ajay is an organized and detail-oriented self-starter who has expertise in developing memory-efficient Android applications with MVx architectures. He can also develop modular and highly scalable APIs in Node.js. Ajay's roles and responsibilities vary based on the products, which include leading the team, being deeply involved in design and architecture discussions, and finally developing highly modular and scalable codes. He is proficient in several programming languages such as Kotlin, Java, Javascript, and Python. He is also skilled in using frameworks such as Android, Node.Js, and Express.js, as well as libraries such as Architecture Components, LeakCanary, Retrofit, Glide, ButterKnife, Parceler, Espresso, Robolectric, Dagger 2, RxJava, EventBus, Stetho, and more. Ajay has made significant contributions to open source projects, including MimusMocker, a unified API mocking node.js middleware that can be used for providing API mocks quickly, even before writing a single line of actual API into your Routers. Currently, Ajay is working as an Android Lead at ShareChat, where he is working with the Live Stream Team and building it right from scratch. He started from scratch and was 100% hands-on in the beginning. He contributed to architecture designs with MVI and 100% Compose. Soon, the team grew to 10+ in the next 6 months, and he is currently handling one of the largest tech teams in ShareChat. Ajay's code contribution has become 40/60, where he is responsible for resolving team dependencies, PR reviews, running the sprint, effort estimation, feature delivery, and more with 60%. He spends 40% of his time fixing production issues, performance-related issues, learning new techs, and grooming the team. Ajay has worked with several companies in the past, including Vyapar App, where he worked as a Lead Android Engineer, and ONE Championship, where he worked as a Tech Lead, Android. Ajay holds a B.Tech degree in Computer Science & Engineering from the National Institute of Science & Technology, Berhampur. He has also completed his 12th from DAV College, Titilagarh,