Personal details

Ramiz R.

Based in: 🇵🇰 Pakistan

Timezone: Pacific Time (US & Canada) (UTC-7)

Summary

Ramiz is a senior Android developer with more than eight years of experience working with Java and Kotlin and is a Google Certified Associate Android Developer. He contributed to the Plume B2B Android app, with the app's different flavors used by 10+ businesses, and the Unified Remote Android app with 1.5+ million installs. Ramiz recently added iOS development (Swift) to his skills and enjoys delivering high-functioning, stable apps that users love.

Technical skills

Top 3 skills

Kotlin・5 yrs Android・9 yrs

Other skills

iOS・3 yrs C++・3 yrs Java・9 yrs Git・9 yrs Firebase・6 yrs GitHub・9 yrs Jetpack Compose・1 yr MVVM・5 yrs MVC・4 yrs

Work Experience

Senior Android Developer

Plume Design, Inc. | Aug 2020 - Present

Android

Android Studio

Retrofit

Kotlin

Kotlin coroutines

Android Jetpack

Kotlin multi Platform mobile

• Working as a key member of the Plume Mobile team to bring a new B2B Plume app to life • Following the Agile development model with 2-week sprints and using MVVM with clean code architecture guidelines.

Senior Android Developer

Jirah | Jul 2018 - Aug 2020

Java

Google Maps

Kotlin

Android navigation

Room

Databinding

Kotlin coroutines

Android paging

Work manager

• Leading a team of 4 members and 2 Android apps at Jirah, the Jirah Sitter app and the Jirah Parent app. • Brought a clean codebase into existence by using MVVM and the latest libraries such as Kotlin Coroutines, Dagger2, Retrofit2, Android Navigation Component, Work Manager, Room, View Model, LiveData, Android Paging, and other Android JetPack libraries. • Delivered the Jirah Sitter app, from inception to deployment in under 6 months so the Jirah Sitter Android app is my baby! • Quickly took over the Jirah Parent app after finishing the Jirah Sitter app, the app was unstable and janky, fixed all the main bugs and improved its UI rendering performance and eliminated all UI janks in under 1 month. • Streamlined deployment process by setting up an automatic build & deployment pipeline using Bitbucket Pipeline and Google Play API. • Wrote a custom Chat SDK using SendBird SDK and published it as a private repo, now used by both Android apps for chat functionality.

Education

Google

Associate Android Developer Certification・Android

Jan 2020 - Present

Udacity

iOS Developer Nanodegree・iOS

Jan 2020 - Jul 2020

Personal Projects

SKEDit Android App

2017

Java

Accessibility

Kotlin

Material Design

RESTful API

• Took over the SKEDit app with an existing, unstable, and underperforming code base. Worked closely with the old developer for smooth and quick transfer of the domain knowledge. • Moved all the duplicated code into relevant repositories to make sure the code is centralized and adheres to the MVP architecture. • Improved the main screen load and rendering time by 4x by separating the unnecessary bundling of 5 tabs into 1 activity, into their separate screens and by moving the data loading happening on the main UI thread into the background threads.

Jirah Sitter App

2018

Java

Git

Google Maps

MVVM

Kotlin

Picasso

Android navigation

Android Jetpack

Workmanager

Android paging

• Successfully delivered the app from its design to deployment in under 6 months, working closely with the client for requirements. • Designed a clean code base by using MVVM and latest libraries such as Kotlin Coroutines, Dagger 2, Retrofit 2, Android Navigation Component, Work Manager, Room, View Model, LiveData, Android Paging, and other Android JetPack libraries. • Successfully deployed the app first to beta and then to release channel, with app gaining great reviews and 4.9+ rating as of now.

Certifications & Awards

Associate Android Developer

Google | Jan 2020