Praveen Goparaju
Engineering @Handshake | Ex-DoorDash | Ex-Yahoo
- Role
- Senior Android Engineer at Handshake
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Praveen Goparaju
I am a seasoned Android Engineer with 12+ years of experience building seamless, user-friendly apps across e-commerce, social networking, wireless technologies, and location-based services. My passion lies in crafting 0→1 products—from ideation to production—by rapidly prototyping, shipping, learning, and iterating to deliver meaningful experiences. I thrive in collaborating with product, design, analytics, and engineering teams to build data-driven solutions that scale. I’m passionate about building products and aspire to create next-generation tools and apps that make a real impact. Beyond coding, I’m experienced in collaborating with cross functional teams, navigating ambiguity, driving alignment, prioritization & building product and tech roadmaps, establishing best engineering practices to ensure ensure system reliability like on-call, observability etc. I also enjoy mentoring and training developers, fostering a culture of technical growth and collaboration.Areas of Expertise: Data-driven engineering, proactive problem-solving, debugging, steering product & technical direction, Leadership, Operational Excellence, UI/UX design, analytics, and mentoring.Tech Stack: Android Development, Kotlin, MVVM, Coroutines, StateFlow, RxJava, LiveData, Java, Mockito, JUnit, Dagger.
Experience
Senior Android Engineer
Jun 2025 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Building Android Handshake Student app- Built & Shipped Mentions (aka tagging other students) on Android- Setup biweekly release process, Numerous bug fixes and crash fixes to improve the overall user experience, stability of the app.
Education
Andhra University
MCA, Computers
2006 — 2009
Skills
- Eclipse
- Html
- Core Java
- Sqlite
- Sql
- User Interface Design
- Mobile Applications
- Android
- Technical Training
- J2se
- Sdk Development
- Java
- Location Based Services
- Android Studio
- Deep Linking
- Software Development
- Json
- Test Driven Development
- Bluetooth
- Javase
- C++
- Start-Ups
- Visual Studio
- Xml
- Database Design
- User Interface
- Gps
- Mobile Analytics
- C
- Web Services
- Blackberry
- Agile Methodologies
- Android Development
- Javascript
- Git
- Oop
- Databases
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