Akshay Ravichandran
Software Engineer III at Google
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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RockstarAkshay Ravichandran is a Software Engineer III with 11 years of experience building backend web applications, currently contributing to Google Vault in Raleigh, NC. An MCS graduate, he progressed through Google's Engineering Resident and Software Engineer II roles, bringing production experience from internships at Amazon and Spreedly. He has a strong focus on server-side logic, validations, testing, and database interactions—evidenced by contributions to the NSF-supported Expertiza project where he implemented badge systems and improved grading/comment workflows. Colleagues know him for thoughtful controller-level design and clear code documentation that improves maintainability. He blends solid academic foundations with practical experience shipping reliable backend features at scale.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (13)
testing10
activerecord10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
databases9
peer-to-peer9
database9
database-api9
peer9
java6
eclipse6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
expertiza/expertiza
May 2018 - Apr 2019
Expertiza is a web application through which students can submit and peer-review learning objects (articles, code, web sites, etc). The Expertiza project is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 12 PRs, 3 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Akshay primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Expertiza web application, focusing on the badge system and related controller logic. They implemented validations, test cases, and database interactions for badges. The user also addressed issues in the grading and comment saving processes, which included updating controller logic, views, and tests to incorporate flash messages and dialog boxes for user feedback. Furthermore, the user made comments to better explain the purpose of code.
nationalpeer-reviewexpertiza-wikidjangoexpertiza
akshayravichandran/expertiza
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Expertiza is a web application through which students can submit and peer-review learning objects (articles, code, web sites, etc). The Expertiza project is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Contributions:25 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
nationalpeer-reviewnational-science-foundationsciencedjango
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