Adithya Reddy

Senior Engineering Manager · Consumer Apps @ Blinkit

Gurgaon, Haryana, India


Experience

Blinkit

Senior Engineering Manager

January 2022 – Present · 4 years 3 months

Leading Consumer Engineering at Blinkit, building the apps that power India's fastest commerce platform.

Blinkit is hiring — reach out at adithya@blinkit.com if you'd like to be part of our growth story.

Zomato

Engineering Manager, Mobile Platform Engineering

April 2019 – January 2022 · 2 years 10 months · Gurugram

  • Reduced app launch time from ~2s → <0.6s (including pre-main and post-main) despite 10+ dynamically loaded frameworks, improving startup performance for an app serving ~80M monthly active users across 800+ cities.
  • Improved OOM-free sessions from 88% → 95% while maintaining ~99.8% crash-free sessions, significantly improving reliability at scale.
  • Built the Restaurant Page, one of the highest-traffic and revenue-driving surfaces in the Zomato app, during the flagship V14 redesign.
  • Contributed to the Zomato V15 redesign, including the revamped ratings system that influences restaurant discovery and ordering decisions.
  • Built an MQTT-based real-time pub-sub infrastructure powering live rider movement in the order tracking experience and other real-time product use cases.
  • Improved rider maneuvering accuracy within the order tracking experience, strengthening delivery visibility for customers.
  • Led the iOS Platform team, building foundational infrastructure used across the Zomato mobile ecosystem.
  • Architected runtime localization infrastructure, enabling regional language support and dynamic string updates without requiring app releases.
  • Re-architected core SDK architecture to improve modularity and scalability across multiple app modules.
  • Designed an incremental build system enabling near-zero compilation time, improving developer productivity across the mobile team.
  • Reduced Carthage dependency bootstrap time from ~30 minutes → <30 seconds, dramatically improving CI and local development workflows.
  • Built internal mobile developer platforms:
    • Airport — Zomato's internal app distribution platform (TestFlight equivalent)
    • Metro — Zomato's internal application loader
  • Helped refine and scale the engineering hiring process.

Urban Company

Software Engineer (iOS)

February 2016 – April 2019 · 3 years 3 months · Gurgaon, India

  • Built the customer-facing iOS app.

Microsoft

Microsoft Student Partner

May 2014 – May 2015 · 1 year 1 month

  • Involved in developing Windows 8.x Store apps.

Education

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech), Information Technology

Graduated with Distinction