Android Engineer and Team Lead @Oath (Aol + Yahoo) 2017 - now
Build and ship Yahoo App, work in fast paced environment. Lead, represent Android team for Aol App.
Hi I'm Meghal Shah I am a full time father, who happens to be an Android Engineer by profession, tech geek by choice, F1 fanantic on most sundays, Cricket lover on some days, foodie on most days.
Urban Legend is I can change diapers with my eyes closed. (not really)
I will try anything as long as its vegeterian, Ocassional cook.
Sunday Mornings are best spent with Coffee and a F1 race.
Aol App
Yahoo App
Alto App and more
Heaven is not a place, not a time, it is perfection. -Richard Bach (JLS)
Ship experiences that touch users heart. Make it simpler that it was day before.
Apart from the recent mastery in diaper changing ability. I love to solve problems in or around Android Engineering. I love discussing ideas with Product teams. What does our users want, is the question i love to ponder upon.
Java & recently Kotlin is one of the many ways to express myself. Recently getting my hands dirty with RxJava, RxKotlin, Android Arch components.
Far away from home, I did study computer science at University of Texas at Dallas with emphasis on Intelligence System. I Graduated from school in 2010.
During my time in UTD, i summer interned at product and development group at Disney ABC Television group.
Later that fall, i scored an internship at Semaphore Mobile, where i continued to work after gradution. There I met some of the smartest people who are currently industry leaders and some of the nicest people on the planet.
In the shadows of Amul and birth place of Sardar Patel, a small college town called Vallabh Vidyanager. I did bachelors of Engineering in computer Engineering. I made some friends for life.
The calling for Masters came, during undergrad. When during 5th semester, I along with 100+ students were offered a job at one of consulting companies in India. At that time, school didnt even scratched surface of Computer science
Build and ship Yahoo App, work in fast paced environment. Lead, represent Android team for Aol App.
Work closely with Product management and Design team to build new features. Design, Build and Liaison for the common internal sdks. Engineered the email section of Aol App
Re-architected News and Videos Section to make it look modern. Built common email library to be shared between Aol App and Alto. Enhancement of native mail section, Multi Account support, tablet support etc.
Engineered the Mail Section of Aol App from ground up Engineered client side implementation of Stacks on Alto Mail app. Created in app multitasking feature for Alto Mail app.
Designed and Developed Android Applications Designed and Developed more than 15 mobile apps on Android, Black Berry and WebOS platform. Built applications for B2B mobile industrial devices such as TC-65. Highlights: Zagat To Go, Dealnews, BlackFriday, Grocery Guru etc.
Created a sandbox for external developers to show case the output of the APIs. Created few prototypes to consume new APIs built by the
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