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SOFTWARE ENGINEER & TECHNICAL LEADER

Sunny Desai.

Building thoughtful products.
Leading from architecture to delivery.

Software engineer with 10+ years across mobile, backend, SDKs, and platforms. Leading architecture and delivery at Verily; previously AWS and Qualcomm Life. Combining hands-on engineering, technical leadership, and project management. Aligning priorities and engineering resources while mentoring cross-functional teams. Open to senior mobile engineering and engineering management roles.

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01

Experience

Engineering and leadership
across product and platform.

Verily Health

Current

Jul 2022 — Present

Software Engineer III · Android

Technical lead for Android and mobile platform initiatives on Verily Me.

  • Set technical direction for Health Connect, experimentation, architecture, and service integration.
  • Partner with backend and product teams to define APIs and deliver cross-functional initiatives.
  • Mentor and onboard engineers through design and code reviews.

Amazon Web Services

Jun 2020 — Jul 2022

Android Software Engineer

Owned Server-Driven UI architecture and delivery for the AWS Console Mobile Android application.

  • Collaborated across mobile, backend, design, and product teams.
  • Supported operational excellence through on-call, analytics-driven health insights, and production issue response.

Capsule / Qualcomm Life

2016 — Jun 2020

Mobile Engineer → Senior Mobile Software Engineer

Grew from internships into senior engineering ownership across the 2net connected health ecosystem.

  • Led SDK and application delivery for customers across the ecosystem.
  • Managed customer-facing releases and partnered with engineering and product teams to evolve the platform.

Summer internship in 2016; returned in January 2017.

02

Portfolio

What I built, and how.
Plus independent samples.

VERILY HEALTH

Verily Me & mobile platform

Connected health experiences, from API to Android.

Feature and platform work on the Verily Me Android app, from the App BFF API layer to the Compose UI.

What I built

  • Delivered Surveys, Consent, Identity Verification, Notifications, and Native Metrics features in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
  • Integrated Android Health Connect and client-side Experiments.
  • Set direction for the VDS migration and the app’s architecture.
  • Added new App BFF API capabilities required for app-side features.

Technologies Kotlin · Jetpack Compose · Coroutines · WorkManager · gRPC · Protobuf

AMAZON WEB SERVICES

AWS Console Mobile

Server-Driven UI for cloud operations on the go.

With Server-Driven UI, the backend defines screens, so the Android app can change its UI without waiting for an app release.

What I built

  • Designed and delivered the Server-Driven UI capabilities in the Android client.
  • Shipped the Recents feature.
  • Added screenshot-based automated testing and integrated AWS Device Farm into CI/CD.

Technologies Kotlin · MVVM · Server-Driven UI · Device Farm · Automated testing

CAPSULE / QUALCOMM LIFE

2net SDK & UHC Motion

Connecting medical devices, wearables, and applications.

2net connects medical devices and wearables to applications. I worked on its mobile SDKs and the UHC Motion apps built on them.

What I built

  • Built and released the 2net Android and iOS SDKs for customer applications.
  • Integrated medical and wearable devices over Bluetooth / BLE.
  • Delivered the UHC Motion applications and integrated analytics across platforms.

Technologies Android · iOS · Java · Objective-C · Bluetooth / BLE · IoMT

CAPSULE TECHNOLOGIES

Android device platform

System releases and services for connected hardware.

An in-house connected Android device running a custom AOSP build.

What I built

  • Delivered AOSP build releases for Android 6.0.1.
  • Developed background application features for BLE communication, Android OS updates, service watchdogs, and LED-based UI.
  • Partnered with service and system teams to investigate complex issues in the product architecture.

Technologies AOSP · Android platform · Background services · BLE · Device integration

INDEPENDENT SAMPLES

IN PROGRESS

Ideas in progress

Small open-source demos across mobile, machine learning, systems, and robotics. Each will be published on GitHub as it ships.

  • On-device Android MLJetpack Compose · ML Kit / TFLite
  • React Native appTypeScript · Cross-platform
  • Rust systems sampleCommand-line data processing
  • ROS robotics demoROS 2 · Simulation · Navigation
03

Expertise

Depth in mobile.
Experience across the stack.

Mobile engineering

Kotlin, Java, Jetpack Compose, React Native, Coroutines, Flow, Android SDK, SwiftUI, Objective-C

Programming languages

Kotlin, Java, Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, Objective-C

Architecture & platforms

Clean Architecture, MVVM / UDF, gRPC, Protobuf, REST APIs, SDKs, BLE, AOSP

Quality & delivery

JUnit, MockK, Roborazzi, Cucumber, GitHub Actions, Gradle, Datadog, Pendo

Leadership & delivery

Technical strategy, project management, resource planning, cross-functional coordination, design reviews, mentoring, hiring, incident response

04

Education

M.S. Computer Science

California State University, Northridge

B.E. Computer Engineering

Gujarat Technological University

LET’S CONNECT

A conversation is a good start.

For engineering opportunities, collaboration, or a thoughtful exchange.

sunnydesai07@gmail.com