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Hi, I'm Shyam Patel

Android | Web | Cloud

Android Engineer. Took a break. Kept building. Ready to ship.

About Me

I'm Shyam, an Android engineer based in Naperville, IL. I got my start in mobile development at Cellpoint Digital, where I built features for the Philippine Airlines Android app — real production code, real users, clean architecture. I loved the craft of it: the problem-solving, the architecture decisions, the satisfaction of shipping something that works well.
Life took a detour for a few years. I stepped away from full-time engineering and took on customer-facing work to get through a difficult stretch. But I never stopped thinking like a developer — and eventually I stopped pretending I wasn't one.
So I built my way back. Over the past year I've been heads-down on a portfolio of Android projects that reflect how I actually like to build: Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, Clean Architecture, proper testing at every layer, and real integration with APIs and hardware. One app connects to a Raspberry Pi over Bluetooth. Another lets you draw geofences on a live map and logs every entry and exit. Another integrates with GitHub's API end-to-end, complete with push notifications and OAuth2.
I also set up the full CI/CD infrastructure — Jenkins pipelines, Docker, AWS, Nginx — because shipping code matters as much as writing it.
I'm actively looking for an Android engineering role where I can contribute from day one and keep growing. If you're building something interesting, I'd love to talk.

My Skills

Android

Jetpack Compose, Koin, Dagger2, Coroutines, Room, Retrofit, DataBinding, Material Design, Google APIs, Bluetooth Apis (BLE) Apollo GraphQL for Android, Firebase Messaging, JUnit, Integration testing, Compose Testing, UiAutomator Testing, Mockito, Mockk

Web

Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Security, Spring JPA, Spring Testing, JEE (JSP, Servlets), jQuery, HTML, CSS, bootstrap, JavaScript

Versioning, CI / CD

Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Docker

Programming Languages

Kotlin (Advanced), Java (Advanced), Python (Basic)

Cloud

AWS - EC2, S3, EBS, SQS, DynamoDB, RDS, SES, VPC, Route53, Lambda

Database

SQLite (w RoomDB), MySQL, DynamoDB

Tools

Android Studio, IntelliJ, Jira, Slack, Asana, LucidChart, Visio, Jenkins, AWS

Work History

  • Cashier / Self checkout associate - Jewel-Osco, Naperville, IL

    April 2022 - October 2023

  • Front Desk / Technician - Comfort Inn, Madison, IN

    April 2021 - March 2022

    - Leveraged hotel management software to handle reservations, check-ins, and billing.
    - Created custom solutions for handling hotel maintenance requests, by designing a spring based web application that notifies and tracks all maintenance requests.
    - Upgraded hotel Wi-Fi and network by installing and securely setting up router, switches, and access points.
    - Helped maintenance by modeling 3d parts to and printing them for hotel repairs thus saving cost.
  • Android Developer - VVConnect Corp., Chicago, IL

    Sept 2017 - July 2018

    - Part of startup team to work on a scenario-based social networking app.
    - Built custom views to draw paths on maps and then used Google Maps API Polylines to store Geofences. Implemented trim functionality to change complex polygon to simple polygon.
    - Used FSM design pattern to handle state management in the Views.
    - Created calendar recurring events to setup created fences which are then synced to the contact's device.
    - Customized widgets that include Map Markers, Buttons, Toast's, Dialog's.

Projects

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Education

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