Samrat Garai

Engineering Manager, Mobile · builds a bit of everything

Hey, I'm Samrat.

I like the surfaces nobody volunteers for. Secure video playback, the checkout path, the reliability graph that has to stay flat, the parts where a bug quietly costs real money or breaks trust. I own those until they are boring, and boring is the compliment.

Day job: I lead mobile at Marrow (DailyRounds), a team of 6 Android and 4 iOS engineers. I joined as an IC in 2019 and grew into the manager. Eight-plus years in Android, seven on one flagship, somewhere north of four thousand commits. The receipts are on the Impact page.

But I get restless in one lane. I have shipped Flutter apps, BLE navigation on a motorcycle helmet, WebRTC group calls, an agri-tech billing app for plantation workers, and a pricing engine that moves cocktail prices like a stock market. Different stacks, same instinct: find the messy real-world problem, make it feel simple.

What I reach for

  • Kotlin, Java, C++ via JNI and NDK, Coroutines and Flow
  • Clean Architecture, MVVM, MVI, Hilt and Dagger
  • Jetpack Compose, Media3 and ExoPlayer, DASH and HLS, offline playback
  • Flutter, WebRTC, BLE, a bit of web when a problem asks for it

Built on the side

Not the day job. Just proof I do not sit still.

Mobile Reliability System

Creator

An in-house system that catches issues on new releases, suggests the fix with repro steps, opens the pull request, pings stakeholders, and writes the reference doc so it never reopens.

automationtooling

Weweave

Cofounder

Architected and launched a cross-platform mobile app in Flutter, from user research to end-to-end product strategy.

Flutterproduct

CrossHelmet

Freelance, US startup

Core driver-app features: BLE-based navigation, weather reporting on the hardware, and group calls over WebRTC.

BLEWebRTC

51 Wall Street

Freelance

A three-app ecosystem (client, waiter, TV) with a live stock-market pricing model that moves drink prices on real-time demand.

real-timerestaurant tech

Croton

Solo

Inventory and billing app for plantation workers to track operations and output.

agri-tech

NEET PG Seat Predictor

Hackathon

A web app that scraped historical counseling data to help students predict seat allotment.

webscraping

Beyond work

Anime and manga Avid across both. Dragon Ball Z, Naruto, One Piece. I read the manga too, and I got my wife hooked on anime.
Fitness Went from 97 kg to 70 kg. The discipline that fixes a body fixes a codebase.
Cooking I cook when I need to think. Some of my best debugging happens over a pan.
Party and dance Work hard, party harder. I dance.

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