About

Anu Vakkachen is a skilled Senior Software Engineer at PayPal with over 5 years of experience in developing Android apps. She specializes in designing and developing Android SDKs for geofence and beacon notifications, indoor mapping and location, mobile ads SDK for Android, and integrating libraries like Google Analytics and Admob. Anu is also proficient in protocols SNMP and NetCONF used in Telecom Domain and is experienced in implementing Bluetooth stack for various platforms, Bluetooth profiles OPP, FTP & BPP, and developing OSGi framework stack. Anu is highly experienced in creating high-quality designs, providing estimates, dependencies, and leading all aspects of design. She is also proficient in unit testing using JUnit and mocking frameworks like Mockito and Mockk. Anu has experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies and is skilled in using Git, GitHub, Bit-bucket, JIRA, Jenkins & Crashyltics. Anu has over 10 years of hands-on software development experience and holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science. She has worked on various projects, including designing, architecture, and development of PayPal Assistant SDK for Android, adding multi-tenancy support to the SDK, and successfully launching it in PayPal and Venmo apps. Before joining PayPal, Anu worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Phunware Inc., where she was responsible for developing a cryptocurrency wallet app, adding new features to Phunware Android Mapping SDK, Phunware Location SDK, Phunware Android beacon SDK, and Phunware Engagement SDK. She also designed and developed Android plugins for Unity. Anu has also worked as an independent Android developer, where she designed and developed various Android applications like Bluetooth Firewall, Bluetooth LE Smart Radar, and Bluetooth File Explorer. Overall, Anu has 19.29 years of relevant experience in software engineering, Android, mobile, Java, and test, making her a highly skilled and experienced software engineer.