Jigar Brahmbhatt
Hi, I’m Jigar, a mobile engineering leader with 14+ years of experience building Android apps and SDKs, specializing in Kotlin Multiplatform since 2021. Today I’m the technical lead of the Edge AI program at IMS, where we run driver risk scoring and crash detection entirely on the user’s phone. I guide our SDK team, mentor data scientists in mobile engineering, and help shape not just how things are built but what gets built and why. I care deeply about developer productivity, clean API design, and building teams with equity, transparency, and empathy, where every voice is valued. Lately I’m also working through what AI-assisted engineering means for teams, both its promise and its risks. I genuinely enjoy the adventure of taking a team from a hard problem to a shipped solution.
Blog Posts
- 2024-02-01 » Kotlin 1.9.20: Streamlining Source Sets in Multiplatform Project
- 2023-10-20 » Kermit Now Supports WASM
- 2023-10-18 » Logger.i() Not Your Style? Customize Kermit Logger!
- 2023-10-04 » Optimizing Gradle Builds in Multi-module Projects
- 2023-02-08 » Jetpack Compose: A use case for view interop migration strategy
- 2023-01-27 » KMP: A Use Case For Common UI Behavior
- 2022-07-11 » Different ways to distribute and integrate Kotlin/JS library
- 2022-03-14 » @JsExport guide for exposing Kotlin to JS
- 2022-03-04 » Add Kotlin/JS support to your KMM library
- 2020-12-23 » In-App Purchase Setup in Android Google Play Apps
Talks
- 2022-09-01 » Integrating Kotlin/JS in a KMP library @ Droidcon NYC, 2022 (Speaker Deck) (Video)
- 2020-06-17 » Kotlin 102 @ GDG Toronto Android (Speaker Deck) (Video)
- 2019-08-20 » Kotlin gotchas and random rants @ GDG Toronto Android (Speaker Deck) (Video)
- 2018-08-09 » Building Android SDK @ GDG Toronto Android (Speaker Deck) (Video)
- 2017-01-21 » Android Pitfalls and Anti-patterns @ MAD (Mumbai Android Developers) Meetup (Speaker Deck)
Paper
On the relation between tourism and trade: A network experiment - 2013 IEEE 2nd Network Science Workshop (NSW)