Balaji Manikandan

Bangalore, India · App: Healthify (3M+ downloads, Editor's Choice)

Senior Android Developer across Growth, User Engagement and Pro verticals. Integrated payments, A/B experiments, smart devices and more — features that directly impact company revenue.

Core features I contributed

• Snap feature powered by GPT Vision — collaborated directly with OpenAI.
• On-device LLMs (Gemma) for offline features.
• Local TensorFlow ML models for food detection, OCR.
• GPT-based chat with SSE (Server-Sent Events).
• Full payment flow with multiple gateways.
• Business revenue impact A/B experiments.
• Order management with address collection.
• Smart devices — Smart Scale and CGM.
• Trackers — Medicine, Water and more.

Beyond programming

• Partner with PMs and design to translate business needs into tech.
• Lead juniors and interns on technical and product development.
• Explore and onboard new tools into team workflows.
• Negotiate with third-party SDK and tooling vendors.
• Application publishing and maintenance.

Bangalore, India

Sole Android developer — built and shipped 2 core business apps to the Play Store from scratch.

• Live vehicle tracking system.
• Chat with multimedia support.
• News feed (post, comment, like).
• Full offline support.

Bangalore, India

Built and published 2 core business Android apps from scratch.

• Location-based store locator.
• Bluetooth Beacon based points system.
• User finance verification with Bank APIs and Aadhaar.