Balaji Ramavathu
Senior Engineer at Eightfold
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolBalaji Ramavathu is a Senior Engineer with 8 years of experience building customer-focused products across backend, Android and React front-ends, currently shaping solutions at Eightfold from Bengaluru. He combines product engineering discipline—design, prototyping, testing and launch—with a data-driven, customer-empathy mindset to prioritize and deliver cost-effective, high-quality software. Proficient in Kotlin, TypeScript, JavaScript and Java, he has hands-on experience modernizing Android apps (AndroidX migration, theming, UI/UX fixes) and contributed notable improvements to projects like Amahi and Open Food Facts. Comfortable juggling multiple projects, he blends coding best practices and software architecture knowledge to drive pragmatic technical decisions. Colleague feedback often highlights his ability to translate product requirements into maintainable implementations while keeping an eye on measurable impact.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Class XII (SSC) - 96.6%, Class XII (SSC) - 96.6% at Narayana Junior College - IndiaClass X (SSC) - 10.0 (GPA), Class X (SSC) - 10.0 (GPA) at S.I.E.M School, GunturBachelor of Technology Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology Information Technology at Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad
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Github Skills (14)
mobile-application10
kotlin10
javas10
androidx10
mobile-development10
ui-design10
kotlin-android10
android10
android-development10
java10
front-end-development9
uid9
sqlite6
database6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
amahi/android
Mar 2019 - Jul 2020
Amahi Android App
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:13 commits, 22 PRs, 27 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Balaji primarily contributed to the Amahi Android App, focusing on bug fixes and UI improvements. They fixed a bug related to sign-out confirmation, added file sorting capabilities, addressed a screen rotation issue with alert dialogs, and implemented a light theme. The user also migrated the project to AndroidX and enhanced the music player UI.
android-app
openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-androidapp
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
(Legacy) Native version of Open Food Facts on Android - Coders & Decoders welcome 🤳🥫
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:22 commits, 21 PRs, 71 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Balaji primarily contributed to the Android application of Open Food Facts. Their commits focused on adding features to the product detail screen, specifically implementing an ingredients analysis tab. They also worked on enhancing the summary tab with features like colored CO2 icons, and displaying nutrition information. Additionally, the user addressed bug fixes related to displaying nutrition facts and other UI-related issues.
androidfoodcrowdsourcingnutritionjava
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