About

Don Chakkappan is a highly skilled mobile technology enthusiast with over 10 years of relevant experience in creating both native and hybrid mobile applications. His expertise lies in Jetpack Components, Jetpack Compose, Dagger 2, Coroutines, and Design/Architecture Patterns for Android development. Don is also proficient in JUnit, Mockito, Espresso, JaCoCo, Appium, Monkey Runner, Screenshot Testing, and Sauce Lab for testing. He is well-versed in Custom lint rules, Sonar, APK Analyzer, Crashlytics, Leak Canary, Android Profiler for debugging and performance optimization. Don has excellent leadership skills and is experienced in Risk Management, SVN, Git, JIRA, Jenkins, Agile, and FPA. Apart from Android, Don has worked with Xamarin, React Native, Firebase Services, Web Services, HTTP, JSON, OAuth, and Google Maps. He has also worked on projects involving LabView, OpenERP plugin using Python, SpringBoot, UI designing using Adobe XD and InVision, and video editing using iMovie. Don has created a customised assistant app using Amazon Alexa voice services and custom skills. He has also developed product-based Android lint rules, Android studio templates, and a customised doclet with Apache POI to reduce manual efforts. Don is currently working as a Senior Engineer at Falabella. Previously, he worked as a Technology Lead at Infosys, where he reduced manual PR review time by 50% and implemented feature-driven design using on-demand modules. At Nest Information Technologies, he reduced manual code documentation effort up to 99% and reduced APK size from 16MB to 3MB. Don holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Mahatma Gandhi University. He is proficient in Android, iOS, Mobile, OpenCV, React Native, Dagger, Jenkins, Web, Spring Boot, MySQL, Image Processing, Javascript, and ML. Don is an active participant in Leetcode, Stackoverflow, and LinkedIn.