Gautham Sajith is a Senior Design Technologist in New York with 12 years of experience blending product design sensibilities and hands-on Android engineering. He’s helped shape Material Design at Google—leading Android color theming and shipping core components like Button, TabLayout, and FAB—and continues that craft at Spotify where he bridges design and implementation. Trained in HCI at CMU and with a CS degree from Michigan, he moves fluidly between prototyping, frontend Android work, and product strategy. An active open-source contributor, his Android UI fixes and enhancements to the widely used material-components-android repo reflect a focus on polish, accessibility, and predictable component behavior. Colleagues describe him as a designer-engineer who surfaces small interaction improvements that materially improve large-scale consumer apps.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE), Computer Science at University of Michigan
Master's degree, Human Computer Interaction, Master's degree, Human Computer Interaction at Human-Computer Interaction Institute - Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science
Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:153 commits, 72 pushes, 15 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Gautham primarily contributed to the `material-components-android` repository by implementing and refining UI components for Android applications. Their work involved adding new features like default scrolling behavior to `BottomNavigationView` and enabling menu item visibility control using `setVisible`. Furthermore, the user addressed layout issues, optimized existing components, and fixed a crash in the `BottomSheetBehavior`. Several changes were also implemented to the internal styling and appearance of the `MaterialButton` and `TabLayout` components, including updates related to the use of text appearance themes and support for background tinting, as well as other visual and behavioral enhancements.
Contributions:131 commits, 9 PRs, 139 pushes in 6 years 4 months
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Gautham Sajith - Senior Design Technologist at Spotify