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Khaleel Jageer

Building scalable Android platforms, leading engineering teams, advancing Tamil language technologies, and contributing to the open-source ecosystem.

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Impact at a glance

12+ Years Professional experience

6 Apps Shipped to production stores

Mobile · TV · Fire TV Android platforms shipped

2 Foundations Founded — VGLUG & Kaniyam

Published Author First author — Essentials of Computing

Professional summary

12+ years of professional Android development experience.
Delivery Lead with hands-on technical expertise.
Android Mobile, Android TV, and Fire TV specialist.
Strong advocate of Clean Architecture and engineering best practices.
Active contributor to Free and Open Source Software.
Researcher in Tamil OCR and language technologies.
First author of the textbook Essentials of Computing.
Founder of the VGLUG and Kaniyam Foundations.
Technical speaker and engineering mentor.

Engineering is about solving meaningful problems, sharing knowledge openly, and building software that stands the test of time.

Featured work

A few projects that show where my interests meet my day job.

Mobile · Nov 2021 — 2026

Remitbee Money Transfer

Technical lead for the Android app behind an international money-transfer platform — Jetpack Compose migration, a scalable MVVM architecture, GraphQL integration, and the CI/CD and test automation around it.

Kotlin
Compose
GraphQL
KoTest

Google Play ↗

Research + app · Ongoing

Vizhi Tamil & Tamil OCR research

An accessibility app that makes Tamil text readable through OCR, backed by ongoing research into handwritten Tamil recognition with Tesseract and AI-assisted post-processing.

OCR
Tesseract
Accessibility

Google Play ↗ The research →

Android TV & Fire TV · 2017 — 2020

TVFPlay for the big screen

Android TV and Fire TV streaming apps built on Leanback, with a custom video player module covering resolution control, captions, and playback navigation.

Leanback
ExoPlayer
Fire OS

Google Play ↗

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Current focus

Where software engineering, artificial intelligence, and embedded systems intersect.

AI-assisted OCR
Tamil Language Technologies
Android Automotive
Software Architecture
Edge AI
Embedded Linux
Home Assistant
Raspberry Pi
Large Language Models
Engineering Productivity
Technical Leadership

Let's build something worth maintaining

I'm always interested in conversations around Android engineering, engineering leadership, open source, AI research, and accessibility.

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