Saksham Dhawan
Product @ Rivigo | Ex-Zomato, Flipkart

A-21, Belvedere park, DLF phase 3, Gurgaon
Haryana- 122002 IN
+91-9988024037
sakshamdhawan@ikwik
https://in.linkedin.com/in/sakshamdhawan
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Saksham+Dhawan
https://medium.com/@er.sakshamdhawan

Work Experience

RIVIGO, Gurugram
https://rivigo.com/
Mar 2018 – Present
Product manager
Handling release lifecycle of RIVIGO GOAL - a mobile tool to empower FOS (foot on street) sales users at RIVIGO. Collaborating with relevant stake holders on Engineering, Business and Design side
Highlights
  • conceptualised and launched Smart Organizer, an advanced real time route planner and task manager for sales owners leading to a ~10% increase in the meetings KPI. Quick demo | Know more
  • designed and released a mobile client for Rivigo's pre-existing ticketing system ( RIVIGO Pace ). Streamlined and structured complex flows into simple decision taps (iterated from form -> Wizard-> Chat ), thereby reducing user friction and increasing ease of adoption
  • responsible for development of in-house app distribution and auto update mechanism. Any active user on the app is auto-updated to the latest version within 15 minutes
  • led the UX revamp and rebranding from Arjuna to RIVIGO GOAL
  • integrated Reimbursement SDK for automated travel based reimbursement of sales owners thereby reducing drudgery and paperwork The same location tracking product was later extended for use in Rivigo's other products such as Rivigo driver app.
  • integrated Trip placement (LOAD assignment) on RIVIGO GOAL resulting in around 30% of all trips on RIVIGO being assigned through GOAL
Zomato, Gurugram
http://www.zomato.com
July 2016 – Mar 2018
Tech
Led Zomato Collect - a complete android tool for offline and online data collection.
Handled multiple responsibilities including working on Zomato - Restaurant Finder (consumer app) and Zomato Edit
Highlights
  • responsible for full revamp of Zomato Collect. All offline and online sync mechanisms were handled with reactive programming concepts via extensive use of RxJava/RxAndroid, SQLBrite, Retrolambda and frodo.
  • developed a Virtual reality browsing experience (through Google cardboard) for the Zomato - Restaurant Finder Android app using Google VR SDK for Android as part of an office Hackathon which won the first prize. The browsing was controlled using voice actions powered by Android speech recognition and TTS (yet to go live)
  • integrated Firebase Analytics, crash reporting and FCM into Zomato Collect.
  • have been involved in code clean out and refactor of exisiting code including migration to Android specific architectures MVP and MVVM for multiple Android projects
  • automated testing for multiple apps using Espresso testing framework
  • created a Chathead service to import photos from 3rd party document scanning apps, integrated CamScanner SDK
HeadLyt, Bengaluru (Bike taxi startup)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.HeadLyt
Jan 2016 – Mar 2016
Intern
Being a part of the four member team, my responsibilities ranged from development to operations and marketing as also interviewing and recruiting new drivers.
Highlights
  • single handedly developed the android app for the startup
  • handled operations including managing drivers and recruiting new ones
  • shouldered the responsibility of the company's external interactions
Flipkart, Bengaluru
http://www.flipkart.com
September 2015 – December 2015
SDE Intern
Worked on Project Talent Graph, a network of employees, ex-employees and candidates for efficient hiring by the talent acquisition team
Highlights
  • used Graph Databases (Neo4j frameowok) to host the entire network
  • created a Chrome extension to crawl the current open LinkedIn Profile Page, pack it into a JSON and save to the graph database and subsequently find overlaps
  • created a PhantonJS script to automate login into LinkedIn and crawl LinkedIn Profile pages in Bulk (not released into production)
  • created a name mapping algorithm using SimMetrics library to approx. map names from two data sources
  • learnt some html skills which were later useful in creating this resume

Education

Projects

[Open source] Stock Tracker – An open source Android project to showcase MVP Android architecture with RxAndroid, Retrofit 2.0, ButterKnife.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.application.saksham.stocktracker
https://github.com/sakshamdhawan22/Android-MVP-RX-DEMO
March 2018
Summary
This is my first open source project. It is a sample Android app to showcase MVP Android architecture with RxAndroid, Retrofit 2.0, ButterKnife. The app that shows you realtime current stock price, lowest intraday price, highest intraday price and historical data based on the data provided from https://www.alphavantage.co/ all in a reactive manner.
Official Android application for
    Algorythm (Annual Cultural Fest)
    Techlone (Annual Technical Fest)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chitkara.events.algorythm
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chitkara.events.techelone
Algorythm - March 2014, September 2014
Techelone - March 2015
Summary
These applications were the official android applications developed for annual technical and cultural fests of Chitkara University
Highlights
  • implemented Explore the campus feature which gives a virtual tour of the campus using full 360 degree photospheres (using Panorama Client) Download and experience
  • implemented push notifications (using Google cloud messaging)
  • implemented direction fetching and route drawings from user’s current location to campus (using Google Directions and Maps API)
  • earned highly positive reviews (Algorythm is rated 4.8 and Techelone 4.6)

Achievements

  • Dec 2018

    Rivigo

    https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/GhIN71gXemrQ18

    First prize - Hackathon

    Built Smart Organizer, an advanced real time route planner and task manager for on-field sales owners with an aim to increase on-field productivity This feature was the fastest to go to production. The feature received extremely positive feedback from on-field users.

  • February 2017

    Zomato

    First prize- Hackathon

    Won first prize in internal Hackathon (developed a Virtual reality browsing experience for the "Zomato - Restaurant Finder" Android app)

  • October 2014

    PEC University of technology

    2nd Prize-Hackathon

    My android application, GeoFun was adjudged as the second-best software during 12 hours night coding event “Hackathon”

Skills

Mobile application development (Android)
Kotlin Dagger 2 RxAndroid Room Live data MVVM Architecture Espresso Espresso MVP Architecture Data Binding Retrofit 2 Observer Pattern Async tasks Services SQlite Google Cloud messaging Google play services Phostsphere integration (Panorama Client) Testing and debugging Apps Publishing apps on Google Play
Product
Wireframing Balsamiq App analytics Designing workflows
IDEs
Eclipse IntelliJ IDEA Android Studio Dev c++
Web Development (Prior Experience)
HTML Javascript REST NodeJS PhantomJS CasperJS Chrome extension DropWizard
Programming Languages
C ( proficient ) C++ ( proficient ) Javascript ( prior experience ) NodeJS ( prior experience ) Java (expert)
Databases
Relational Databases (SQL) Graph Databases (Neo4j)
Operating Systems
Windows Linux Mac OS X Android
Build Systems
Another Neat Tool (ANT) Maven Gradle

Languages

  • English
  • HindiNative speaker
  • Punjabi

Interests

Sports
FooseBall Crossfit Cycling
Exploring
Gadgets SDKs Dev Conferences
Tinkering with devices
Rooting Custom ROMs