Murtaza Patrawala
Software Engineer 2 at Abnormal AI
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolMurtaza Patrawala is a pragmatic full-stack engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable backend systems and polished front-end experiences, currently at Abnormal AI. He has a strong track record at companies like HackerRank and Rocket.Chat, where he scaled core evaluation services to handle 200k+ concurrent sessions and contributed significant Livechat features across both server and client code. Murtaza combines cloud-native tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, GCP) and Go concurrency with practical product sensibilities, having shipped popular marketplace apps and a Reminder Bot used by 10,000+ active users. A former GSoC student turned mentor, he’s comfortable navigating open-source ecosystems and mentoring contributors while delivering production-grade APIs and integrations. He’s based in Bengaluru and brings a rare blend of large-scale systems engineering and hands-on UX-focused frontend work.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Engineering at KJ Somaiya College of Engineering, VidyaviharHSC, HSC, HSC, HSC at DG Ruparel College of Arts, Science and Commerce
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Github Skills (32)
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api-rest10
javascript10
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restful-api10
responsive-design10
ui-design10
uid10
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front-end-development10
rest10
preact10
rest-api10
mongodb-database9
css9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Livechat
Jul 2020 - Mar 2022
New Livechat client written in Preact
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:113 reviews, 38 commits, 31 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Murtaza primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the livechat client. Their contributions include the implementation of an emoji picker with responsive design, auto-hiding behavior, and improved text input integration. They also addressed various issues related to custom livechat messages, including fixes for offline success messages, support for HTML content in labels, and improved rendering of markdown data. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to the "hide agent info" setting.
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RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
The communications platform that puts data protection first.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 1204 reviews, 292 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Murtaza primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Rocket.Chat platform, focusing on Livechat features. Their work included fixing bugs in the Apps-Engine and file upload processes, adding a REST API endpoint for searching Livechat visitors, and implementing a new endpoint to modify an Omnichannel room's visitor. These contributions involved code modifications across various server-side files, highlighting a focus on API development and improvements to core Livechat features. Furthermore, the user worked on adding a new endpoint to change Omnichannel room's visitor which included creating new functionalities on several files.
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