Software Development User Experience
Resume:
Kalyani Lakshmi Bhanu
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
●10 years of Professional Experience in Software Design and Development of Android Applications for smartphones.
●Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including design, development, debugging, and deployment of mobile applications.
●Excellent knowledge and working experience in Android SDK, Eclipse IDE, Android Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, Application Stack and Android Architecture.
●Good exposure with push notifications, content providers, multiple screen support, data offline usage, memory leaks, accounts and sync on Android.
●Worked with Activities, Fragments, Support Library, Intents, Services, Broadcast Receivers, REST API, Location Manager, Threads.
●Integrated third party libraries like Retrofit, OkHttp for RESTful web services to fetch data for end users and parse JSON responses.
●Hands on experience with Android components like AsyncTask, Handlers, Loader, Background Service, Custom Toast and Notifications, AIDL, Fragments, RecyclerViews, Spinners, Layouts, Containers, Action Bar Navigation, Menu designs, Custom Views, Android Marshmallow Permissions, and Push notification.
●Designed and developed UI using fragments and activities and UX using material design, features like Navigation Drawer, Floating Button, Coordinator layout, snackbar, Recyclerview for easy navigation and better user experience.
●Extensively used 3rd party libraries such as Retrofit and OkHttp, Picasso, EventBus, Glide, Firebase, SQLite, LiveData and ViewModel for maintaining a cleaner code base.
●Knowledge of Android 10 API.
●Team involvement by participating in Story Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demos and Retrospective
●Excellent analytical, communication, and presentation skills with creative approach to problem solving, and strong willingness to learn new technologies.
●Worked in an Agile environment and participated in different phases of the project cycle like design and development.
●Actively involved in the maintenance of the app and fixing the bugs in various modules.
●Familiar with Web-Development technologies like HTML, JavaScript, jQuery and CSS.
●Knowledge of using task allocation, tracking and bug reporting tools such as JIRA.
●Used GitHub for version control.
SKILLS
Languages : Kotlin, Java, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5
Database : SQLite, Firebase
IDE : Eclipse, Android Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual studio
Web Services : JSON, REST, XML
Operating Systems : Android OS, Windows OS, Mac OS, Linux
Version Control : Git/GitHub.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CIGNA Dec 2022 – March 2025
Bloomfield, CT (Remote)
Android Developer
Description:
Cigna’s mobile application allows users to manage their health plans, view claims, search for providers, check benefits, and get digital ID cards. The app also supports virtual care and pharmacy services for a better user experience.
App Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mycigna/id569266174
Responsibilities:
●Worked closely with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and develop scalable features in Kotlin.
●Enhanced the dashboard UI with tabbed fragments, personalized content, and ViewModel-LiveData-based architecture.
●Integrated Retrofit with OAuth2 for secure API communication and handled token refresh scenarios.
●Implemented biometric authentication and fallback PIN/Password for secure login.
●Developed a new feature for virtual ID cards using PDF rendering and caching strategies.
●Used Firebase Crashlytics and Analytics to monitor app performance and user interaction.
●Built reusable components for provider search filters and pharmacy location modules.
●Refactored legacy Java code into Kotlin for better maintainability.
●Participated in sprint planning, code reviews, and daily standups to ensure timely delivery.
●Worked with QA teams to resolve critical bugs and conducted smoke and regression testing.
Environment: Kotlin, Android SDK, MVVM, Retrofit, Firebase, LiveData, Room DB, JSON, JIRA, Git, Android Studio.
CITI April 2021 – March 2022
Plano, TX
Android Developer
Description: Citi is an investment bank and financial services. It deals with different types of customers and features respective their type they have chosen.
App Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/citi-mobile/id301724680
Responsibilities:
●Analyzed business requirements and participated in technical design, development and testing of
various modules.
●Designed and Integrated with microservice calls for various tiles and used pagination based on the product team requirement.
●Worked with Container team to design the carousel view for displaying Brokerage accounts and graph and pie chart.
●Worked with the design team and attended ACMEA labs to get required design for the Views.
●Implemented Holdings and WatchList tile using tablayout and view pager.
●Implemented Quicklinks for specific customers based on their requirement using RecyclerView.
●Designed MarketNews tile using Recycler View and Integrated top five from service and handled click events.
●Worked with different teams in designing tiles and delivering with in the timeline.
●Used AlertDialog to display a dialog box for first time users.
●Used Intents to pass objects to different screens.
●Used Shared Preference to store the key to track for first time user.
●Worked with the Testing team and helped them in writing BDD Scripts.
Environment: Android SDK, Android Studio, JDK 1.8, RESTful Web services, Kotlin, Retrofit library, JSON, JIRA.
Bed, Bath & Beyond February 2019 – September 2020
Union, NJ
Android Developer
Description: With 24/7 access to extensive inventory, the Bed Bath & Beyond app makes it easy to stock up and spruce up your home on the go. Find your favorite furniture and decor brands, pick up all of your household essentials (bedding, bath towels, cookware, and more) and save big every time.
Bed, Bath & Beyond App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bed-bath-beyond/id495955880
Responsibilities:
●Worked closely with the design and development team on direction and user experience.
●Redesigned the login page implementing ViewPager and Fragments to display account creation form.
●Added UI features for implementing and displaying Security Questions with the help of spinners.
●Helped with the migration of the application to material design.
●Implemented custom alertdialog builder asking for location access permission.
●Developed code using Parcelable interface to send custom objects that will be passed to different Screens such as from Products page to the Cart inventory for adding a product to buy.
●Used intent to pass the custom object to different Screens.
●Implemented a switch button on the login screen and used Shared preferences to save the user ID when the user checks the switch button.
●Used custom recycler views to view information on every screen thereby maintaining the uniformity.
●Used AsyncTask Loaders to properly make service calls to the server in the background.
●Created a smooth view flow for navigation between different UIs
●Tested the application for relevant bugs using different debugging tools such as Breakpoints and Logcat.
Environment: Android SDK, Android studio, JDK 1.7, RESTful Web services,Kotlin,EventBus library, JSON, JIRA.
Hobby Lobby December 2017–January 2019
Oklahoma City, OK.
Android App Developer
Description: Take Hobby Lobby with you wherever you go! Download the new Hobby Lobby app to get the latest coupon, browse the weekly ad, locate stores near you and check your gift card balance and much more. Hobby Lobby is now at your fingertips!
Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hobby-lobby/id535562583
Responsibilities:
●Worked in an agile environment and participated in daily standup meetings.
●Implemented Picasso for image fetching and displaying.
●Used Retrofit for RESTful API calls to retrieve and display latest coupons and offers.
●Added marshmallow permission.
●Redesigned Bottom navigation bar for different screen sizes.
●Added recycler View to better user experience and navigation smoothness.
●Implemented widgets.
●Maintain the SQLITE database and migration.
●Used GitHub as project version controller.
●Tracked issues using JIRA.
Environment: Android SDK, JDK 1.7,kotlin, JSON, JIRA, Retrofit.
Project: HongKong Mobile Development May 2015 – May 2017
Client: DBS
Dev.Organization: Kony India Pvt ltd
Role: Software Engineer
Description: HongKong mobile banking application provides users all the features similar to internet banking like Funds transfer, Bill Payments, Credit card payments etc..
Responsibilities:
● Designed and coded application components in an Agile environment utilizing a test driven development approach.
● Responsible for design of UI using various custom layouts, buttons, dialog boxes, alert boxes and different forms of widgets.
● Responsible for writing event handlers for all the UI widgets and implemented the desired action for each of
widgets.
● Make sure that the app is respecting the cross-mobile platform concept by thorough testing in Android.
● Followed the Agile and Scrum methodologies in the project implementation.
● Fixed bugs reported by QA team and Business users.
Environment: Kony 6.0/6.5, Java Script, Eclipse, Google Android SDK 2.1 and above, java,XML,JSON.
Project: Kony Android features Aug’2013 – May’2015 Client: Kony
Dev.Organization: Kony India Pvt ltd
Role: Software Engineer
Description:Kony cross-mobile platform is an integrated SDLC product which allows developers to build applications for multi channels like Android, iOS, BB and WP with a single code base. Kony product has all the platform implementations like Android, iOS, BlackBerry and Windows Phone in the line. Hence Kony products have all the features implemented in Android as well.
Responsibilities:
● Implemented the native Android OS implementation for the Kony Segment Widget using Adapters.
● Implemented the Kony parser libraries in native Android to ease the Kony app developers to parse the Service response data.
● Implemented Kony Network API in native Android HttpRequest for both GET and POST.
● Implemented multipart file upload support in Kony platform through HttpRequest.
● Ensured the features are bugs free. Also provided the customer support on need basis.
Environment: Kony 6.0/6.5, Java Script, Eclipse, Google Android SDK 2.1 and above, java,XML,JSON.
EDUCATION
Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering
Methodist College Of Engineering,INDIA
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