About

Santosh Gaikar is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 7 years of experience in the information technology and services industry. He specializes in NativeAndroid (Java, and Kotlin), Native iOS (Swift), and React.JS. Santosh is a strong engineering professional with a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Engineering from Padmabhushan Vasantdada Patil Pratishthan's College of Engineering. Santosh has worked on mobility projects and products, including Android Things projects for IoT. He has handled various roles and responsibilities, such as developing Android applications using native SDKs, developing web apps using React, HTML-CSS, and Javascript, uploading and updating apps on the play store, and leading a team of 2 developers. Santosh has also worked on around 20 plus applications and has experience working on SVN, Bitbucket, and Git. Santosh is an open-source contributor and an Android development trainer. He possesses excellent skills in layout development, understanding of Android activity life cycle, persistent data storage, Restful web services with JSON parsing, integrating custom and native libraries, social media SDK integration, Google Maps and other location-based features integration, integrating push notification service, MVP, MVVM architecture, Dagger2/HILT, Databinding, RxJava, Retrofit, payment gateway integration, IoT projects using BLE, animations in Android, and templatization of code modules for products. Currently, Santosh is working as a Senior Software Engineer - Android at Probo, a platform that provides a better platform to share opinions and polls and boost your points among others. In the past, he has worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Inspo, an AI Inspiration Partner designed to enrich creative thinking at brands and agencies, and Haikujam. Santosh has completed a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Engineering from Padmabhushan Vasantdada Patil Pratishthan's College of Engineering and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai. Overall, Santosh is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience in Android development and a strong passion for open-source contributions and training.