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Product spec · Device QA · Security and privacy review

Tanya Jain

Mobile engineer. Native Android and KMP, and the iOS side too.

Software Engineer 2 at Motive, on the Fleet App, where she owns releases: phased rollouts, crash and ANR monitoring, and the fixes that follow. Here she owns QA on real devices and the security and privacy review outright, and shares code review with Sahib. She also owns the spec that starts the work and the ASO that ships it.

Underneath that is the shape she works on: a shared core, native code at the edges, and the developer practices that keep the two from drifting apart.

"always looking for ways to improve developer productivity, whether by refining workflows or introducing better development practices"

"go-to person for KMP-related discussions"

Sahib Singh, who worked alongside her at Motive.

On a studio whose entire argument is that review gates catch what agents miss, that is the argument. It isn't a supporting role.

Shared core

How the work gets made

A shared core is a decision about what everyone has to agree on: the data, the rules, the review gate, the order the work moves in. The platform code at the edges stays small because the core settled it first.

  • Motive

    2024 – now

    Fleet management, US.

    Software Engineer 2

    • Motive Fleet App. Kotlin, Coroutines, Compose, and KMP business-logic modules under Clean Architecture.
    • Bluetooth device-verification flows, CI/CD and workflow automation.

    She owns app releases there: phased rollouts, crash and ANR monitoring, and the fixes that follow.

    By her account, a 99.8% crash-free rate held and about 20% off startup time, from cold-start and dependency work.

Three of the four gates on the home page have her on them, two of them hers alone. She writes the spec that says what the thing deliberately won't do, she runs the build on physical phones, and she reads what it collects and what the listing says about it before anyone outside sees either. At Motive she owns releases the same way: phased rollouts, crash and ANR monitoring, and CI/CD work so the path from merge to store is one a person can repeat. A studio selling "agents write it, humans review it" needs someone whose subject that already is, and the shared core is the same argument one layer down: agree the data, the rules and the order of the work once, and the platform code at the edges stays small enough to review.

Owns

  • Spec
  • code and design review
  • device QA
  • security and privacy
  • ASO
  • release cut.

Android

MotiveJetpack Compose migration, and the Android releases she owns: phased rollouts, crash and ANR monitoring.

  • HSBC

    2021 – 2023

    Global bank.

    Software Engineer

    • Mobile banking. Migration to MVVM, UI performance work, and diagnosis of production issues.
  • Naskay Technologies

    2020 – 2021

    Mobile and product studio, Noida. Around 20 people, client work.

    Android Intern

    • Kotlin, Glide, Retrofit. A UI rebuild, APK size cut through code and resource work, and refactoring.

    The Jillian Michaels fitness app, built at Naskay for a US client.

iOS

Motive Fleet App

Background

  1. 01BTech, Computer Science and Engineering. Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology, affiliated to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow. 2017 to 2021.
  2. 02Udacity Android Developer Nanodegree.
  3. 03HackerRank Java problem solving.
  4. 04TCS CodeVita Season 9 pre-qualifier, all-India rank 2023.
  5. 05Task Manager, an open-source multi-module Android app: github.com/Tanya-jain99/TaskManager.

Write to Tanya directly.

[email protected]

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