About

Ritik Ranjan is a highly skilled Software Engineer with 3 years of experience in Android development. He is currently working as a Software Engineer 2 at Sixt R&D, where he is responsible for identifying and fixing issues related to the VOOT OTT platform. Ritik has worked closely with product teams, actively participating in feature design and refinement. He is proficient in various Android framework components such as worker manager, Room DB, Background and Foreground services, and Authentication systems. He has also integrated third-party SDKs to improve the performance of the platform. In his current role, Ritik has made significant contributions to the Sixt R&D team. He identified and fixed overdraw issues in Content cards, reducing overdraw by more than 50% and providing a smoother UI experience for low-end devices. He also revamped all content cards by adding generic utility functions that provide cornering, shadowing, and resizing effects, earning him the star performer award for that quarter. Additionally, he was part of a two-player team that worked on improving the download module, adding a wrapper queue logic for downloads, and moving DB read and writes from the main thread to the background thread. Before joining Sixt R&D, Ritik worked as an intern at Tata and as a Software Engineer 2 at Viacom18. At Tata, he identified and fixed illegal use of animations in RecyclerView, reduced 6k daily crashes, and migrated the entire project from JAVA to Kotlin. At Viacom18, he worked on Carousel Ads, implemented overlay Ads, and implemented KIDS SAFE MODE as a lead engineer. Ritik holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from RV College of Engineering. He is proficient in Java, Kotlin, Android, Data Science, UI, Search, Test, Integration, and is a Senior Software Engineer. With 3.94 years of relevant experience, Ritik is an excellent addition to any team looking for a skilled Android developer.