Alfred Samuel

Solely owned and maintained the Zoho Maps Android SDK, a unified abstraction layer over Google Maps, MapLibre, and Baidu, enabling all Android teams across Zoho Corporation to switch map vendors with zero code changes.

Engineered a Gradle product-flavor and source-set architecture, reducing APK size across all consumer apps by conditionally bundling only required map vendors at build time.

Developed a CRM geo-visualization Android app that renders Zoho CRM field data on interactive maps and computes optimized multi-stop routes, directly improving field sales team efficiency.

Served as the single point of ownership for all Android mapping requirements across Zoho Corporation, triaging issues, driving integrations, and independently shipping features across multiple product teams.

Contributed to the Zoho Maps Android SDK and CRM geo-visualization app, developing expertise in mapping solutions that led to a full-time role conversion.

Acquired deep hands-on experience with Maps SDK architecture, vendor abstraction layers, and production-scale Android development, enhancing technical proficiency.

Developed a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to synthesize realistic text images, augmenting OCR and NLP model training datasets and significantly reducing manual data-collection overhead.

Gained strong applied ML fundamentals through hands-on experience with deep learning architectures, model training pipelines, and synthetic data evaluation.