Arjun Raghavan
Software Development Engineer II Amazon Kindle Scribe
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArjun Raghavan is a pragmatic software engineer with eight years of experience building consumer-facing apps and device software at Amazon, currently driving Kindle Scribe’s annotations experience. He has a track record of shipping high-impact features, improving performance and accessibility, and owning release pipelines and on-call reliability across complex systems. Arjun led major rebuilds for Amazon Kids on Fire TV and mobile—cutting startup times, shrinking binaries, and accelerating developer builds—while mentoring teammates on new stacks like React Native and native C++. A UCLA CS graduate, he combines product-focused engineering with hands-on tooling and automation experience (from build-time optimizations to cloud infrastructure) and a background in creative tooling and UX from earlier freelance and org-led projects. Notably, he blends deep debugging skills (thread contention fixes in production) with an eye for localization and translation workflows that improve cross-team collaboration.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects, Certificate, Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects at Zee Institute of Creative ArtBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.7, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.7 at University of California, Los AngelesInternational Baccalauerate Diploma, 11th, 12th, International Baccalauerate Diploma, 11th, 12th at MCTM International School
English, French, Tamil, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (21)
nodejs9
react9
frontpage8
hyperledger-fabric8
sass8
javascript8
fabric8
creative-commons7
tetris6
jekyll6
puzzle6
hugo6
frontend5
android5
contentful3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
uclaradio/uclaradio-android
Apr 2018 - Mar 2019
Native streaming application for Android.
Contributions:68 commits, 3 PRs, 52 pushes in 10 months
android
UCLA-Creative-Labs/agora-gaia
Apr 2020 - Jan 2021
Frontend repository for Agora.
Contributions:139 commits, 13 PRs, 122 pushes in 8 months
frontend
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