Nishant Srivastava

Nishant is an Android Engineer based in Berlin, Germany. He is an open source enthusiast who spends his time doodling when not hacking on Android, while also being a caffeine-dependent life-form. He can be found either talking about android libraries or advocating that coffee is the elixir of life at community gatherings. He has experience in Android SDK Engineering, Firmware Engineering and Audio Digital Signal Processing(DSP) on Android.

He is an Intel Software Innovator and part of the raywenderlich.com's Android & Flutter Team.

He has been part of 3 startups in the past, ranging from being the Founding team member at OmniLabs, Inc., being the First employee at Silverpush for whom he developed the company’s patented UAB (Unique Audio Beacon) Technology [Patent 1,Patent 2] [Featured in Techcrunch, Business Today, Live Mint] to being an Android Engineer at Soundbrenner where he dabbled in the art of Firmware Engineering a bit for their custom wearable product, Core while managing their Android application.

Website: nisrulz.com | Blog: Crushing C.O.D.E

Past

Former Lead Organizer at
- Google Developer Group Cloud Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Google Developer Group, New Delhi, India
- Google Developer Group, Allahabad, India
Featured in JSLovers Decode series
Based on no. of stars on Github projects, was ranked by GitAwards
- 2018 onwards: Ranked #1 for Dart and #5 for Java developers in Germany
- 2017-2018: Ranked #1 for Dart and Java developers in Canada
Volunteer Work
- Droidcon Boston: Contributed to code and design of building the android app

Events organized/judged/headed/spoke at
- India
  - Part of panel at event #Tech चर्चा, Odeon Social, CP (Oct 18, 2016)
  - Judged Android Hackathon 2015 at NSIT College, Delhi (Apr 25-26, 2015)
  - Mentored
    - Android Study JAM by Google for New Delhi. (Apr 2016)
    - Google Hackathon at GDG LNMIIT, Jaipur (Feb 4, 2015)
  - Took workshop at
    - UPES, Dehradun on UI/UX Design (Mar 31, 2015, Feb 19, 2016)
    - BBDNITM, Lucknow on Android App Development & Admob Integration (Feb 7, 2014)
    - IIIT, Allahabad on Android UX elements (Mar 21, 2015)
  - Organized a lot of events for GDG New Delhi (2014 - June,2015) [Event Pictures]
  - Kickoff and address Google I/O Extended '17 New Delhi on GDG and Google I/O '17 updates (20 May, 2017)
- Vancouver, BC
  - VanDev: Vancouver's Software Developers Network
    - Build.Better.Android.Libraries (April 25, 2017)
  - Code And Cofee YVR
    - Hello 'Kotlin' World! (May 18, 2017)
    - Delightful X-App Development with Flutter (Aug 17, 2017)
  - GDG Cloud Vancouver Meetup
    - Google I/O '17 Recap: Android, Kotlin and Firebase (July 17, 2017)
    - Google Developer Days, Europe - Extended '17 Recap: Android and Flutter (Sept 29, 2017)
    - Devfest'17 Vancouver - Architecture Components (Oct 14, 2017)
- Berlin
  - Droidcon Berlin
    - Things I wish I knew when I started building Android sdk/libraries (Sept 5, 2017)

Patents

A method and system for identifying a user across multiple communication devices

The present disclosure provides a method and system for determining an exposure of media content. The method includes identifying a first plurality of communication devices, enabling broadcasting the media content embedded with an audio data stream for each of the first plurality of communication devices, receiving a unique deciphered identification information and a communication device identification information from each of a second plurality of communication devices and determining the exposure for the media content based on a pre-defined criteria. Each of the first plurality of communication devices are identified via corresponding communication device identifier information. The audio data stream includes unique audio identification information for each of the first plurality of communication devices. Each of the second plurality of communication devices deciphers the unique audio identification information from the media content broadcasted on the first plurality of communication devices.
A method and system for optimization of power back up of a communication device for identifying a media content

The present disclosure provides a method for optimizing utilization of a power back up of a communication device. The communication device is used for identifying a media content by recording a portion of the media content. The computer implemented method includes triggering a recording facility of the communication device based on a first pre-defined criteria and de-activating the recording facility of the communication device by the processor based on a second pre-defined criteria. The first pre-defined criteria are based on a first set of one or more inputs. The second pre-defined criteria are based on a second set of one or more inputs. The first set of one or more inputs and the second set of one or more inputs are received from one or more sensors. The triggering and the de-activating of the recording facility optimizes the utilization of the power back up of the communication device.

Open Source Contributions

Android Libraries/SDK	Github	Description
Sensey		Android library to make detecting gestures easy
EasyDeviceInfo		Enabling device information to be at android developers hand like a piece of cake!
RecyclerViewHelper		RecyclerViewHelper provides the most common functions around recycler view like Swipe to dismiss, Drag and Drop, Divider in the ui, events for when item selected and when not selected, on-click listener for items.
QREader		A library that uses google's mobile vision api and simplifies the QR code reading process
ScreenShott		Simple library to take a screenshot of the device screen, programmatically!
Android-Utils		Android library facilitating some very common functionalities in the form of utility classes for Android
PackageHunter		Android library to hunt down package information
Zentone		Easily generate audio tone in android
StackedHorizontalProgressbar		Android Library to implement stacked horizontal progressbar
OptimusHTTP		Android library that simplifies networking in android via an async http client
EvTrack		Android library to make event and exception tracking easy
ShoutOut		Android library for logging information in android
Lantern		Android library handling flashlight for camera and camera2 api. Added support for handling display/screen light.
ValidateTor		Android library for fast and simple string validation.

Utility	Github	Description
App Privacy Policy Generator		Generate a generic privacy policy and terms & conditions for your app
Javadoc Themer		Give your boooring javadocs a splash of colors!
Android Tips and Tricks		Cheatsheet about tips and tricks for Android Development
Terminal Utils		A growing list of useful terminal utility/commands and bash scripts to automate your life!

Web	Github	Description
Parallax One Pager Template		A simple one pager parallax scrolling template.
NodeJS GCM Server		NodeJS GCM Server
Angular-Seed Project		A simple angular-based seed website

Bots	Github	Description
Twitter NodeJS		A twitter bot made using nodejs which can post tweets, retweet other tweets and possibly fav tweets. `Active bot`: gdgndbot - GDG New Delhi twitter bot `Active bot`: gdgcvbot - GDG Cloud Vancouver twitter bot
Twitter Java		Twitter bot to automate few tasks on twitter.

Educational/Learning/Example Apps	Github	Description
Android Examples		Simple basic isolated apps, for budding android devs.
Flutter Examples		Simple basic isolated apps, for budding flutter devs.
Firebase Example		Simplistic example app demonstrating using latest Firebase features. Checkout branches for each feature.
LearnKotlin		Learning Kotlin programming in Android.
UploadToMavenCentral		Base repository to demonstrate the process of uploading an aar/jar to maven central.
UploadToJitpack		Base repository to demonstrate the process of uploading an aar/jar to JitPack.
UploadToBintray		Awesome library built to demonstrate the process of publishing android libraries via JCenter/Bintray.
SelfieApp		A simple app to demonstrate building applications in android. The app lets you take selfies and show it as list inside the app.