Nathan Ramanathan
Reliability Engineering Lead at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolNathan Ramanathan is a Reliability Engineering Lead with nearly a decade of industry experience and over 15 years of technical depth spanning consumer electronics, solar PV, and advanced materials research. He has led full-cycle reliability programs from concept through high-volume manufacturing for products at Apple and Google, specializing in display, touch, and novel materials while applying PoF, FMEA, Weibull modeling and custom ALT methods. Nathan pairs hands-on materials science expertise—rooted in a PhD and national-lab research on thin films and polymers—with pragmatic vendor and program management to translate failure analysis into product- and supplier-level design controls. He is notable for inventing non-standard accelerated tests and driving reliability improvements that materially increased yield and lifetime in both electronics and PV products. Based in the Bay Area, he combines scientific publication and patent experience with a data-driven, cross-functional leadership style that anticipates novel user interactions enabled by emerging hardware.
8 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Materials Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Materials Science and Engineering at Max Planck SocietyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Nanotechnology; Matérias characterization, Polymers, Thin Films, Coatings,, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Nanotechnology; Matérias characterization, Polymers, Thin Films, Coatings, at Max Planck Institute for colloids and InterfacesBachelor of Science (BS), Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemistry at Madurai Kamaraj University
English, Tamil, german (deutsche )
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nathanRamaNoodles/Agario-Joy-Controller
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 months
gamegamesrequireagarmouse
nathanRamaNoodles/SensorToButton
Jun 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 12 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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