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Engineering, Mobile, Web

Expanding Access: Engineering Uber Lite

January 23, 2019 / Global
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Figure 1: Around the world, 40 percent of Uber riders use an Android phone with hardware equivalent to phones from 2015 or earlier.
Figure 2: Uber Lite simplifies destination entry by using places of interest near the rider.
Figure 3: Uber Lite preloads data, such as available product types, so as not to burden the app with excessive network calls.
Harshit Bangar

Harshit Bangar

Harshit Bangar, a senior software engineer at Uber, leads Android innovation in the team and obsesses over forward-looking features for Uber Lite. Being an open source enthusiast, he has made various contributions to open source projects like Thrifty and Spek. As an SME for android at Uber Bangalore, he has given external tech talks at Droidcon 2015 and 2016, and actively blogs on Medium. Harshit holds a B.Tech from IIT-Guwahati and loves to read about world history and culture.

Prateek Garg

Prateek Garg

Prateek Garg, a senior software engineer at Uber, leads Android engineering and feature development for the core Uber Lite technology platform. He moved from the U.S. to join Uber's Bangalore office as one of their first engineers at the site.

Uday Jalan

Uday Jalan

Uday, a Senior Backend Engineer, leads the backend, information flow, and all things availability in Uber Lite.

Manish Bharani

Manish Bharani

Manish Bharani leads the Android and platform rider engineering development for Uber Lite in Bangalore. He is passionate about building software at scale for consumers and solving for global rider access in emerging markets. He holds a B.Tech from IIT-Roorkee.

Anindya Chakraborty

Anindya Chakraborty

Anindya Chakraborty, an engineering manager at Uber, has experience building everything from consumer Internet products to hardware simulation tools. In his free time he dreams of becoming a famous blogger.

Posted by Harshit Bangar, Prateek Garg, Uday Jalan, Manish Bharani, Anindya Chakraborty