About

Madhu Kiran P is a Senior Android Developer with over 9 years of experience in the field of mobile applications. Currently working at Yahoo as a Sr. Android Developer, Madhu has proven success in leadership, operational excellence, and organizational development. He has worked with codebases of various sizes, developing many applications end to end, and migrating legacy code to modern architectures. At Yahoo, Madhu has worked on the Yahoo Mail Android application to modernize the legacy codebase with 22M daily active users. He has proposed and implemented various architectural components to facilitate rapid feature development and re-implemented key components of the application like Toolbar, Bottom Navigation as part of the redesigning effort. Madhu has evaluated various threading and subscription models and finalized an implementation based on Kotlin coroutines. He has also spearheaded Kotlin adoption for the codebase by giving various Dev talks and supporting team members in ramping up their Kotlin skills. Madhu has guided junior developers to scope their features and come up with robust implementations within deadlines. He has collaborated with various SDK teams to root cause production issues and resolved them quickly. Madhu has also improved the performance of the app by finding memory leaks (using leak canary), slow code (using Perfetto), and was recognized for outstanding performance through multiple quarters and promoted within a span of a year. Prior to Yahoo, Madhu has worked with Fei Systems as a Software Developer, where he worked with two teams to develop various features and resolve critical issues to meet time-sensitive release deadlines. He has also worked as a Mobile Application Developer and Web Developer, where he maintained and enhanced a website with AngularJS frontend and Java backend(IBM Websphere) for CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) to analyze insurance claims data. Madhu has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He also has an Intermediate(+2) degree in Science from Narayana Jr. College. Madhu's tech stack includes Android, Mobile, iOS, Software Engineer, Frontend, Backend, and Research Scientist.