Ragavan Ambighananthan
Director Of Software Engineering at Expedia Group
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRagavan Ambighananthan is a Director of Software Engineering based in London with over two decades of industry experience and 13 years in senior engineering roles, primarily at Expedia Group. He has progressed from hands-on software and QA engineering into leadership, guiding test automation and platform quality as Principal Test Automation Engineer and now directing engineering strategy. Ragavan blends deep QA and automation expertise with people and delivery leadership, having driven reliability improvements across large-scale consumer travel systems. He is an active open-source contributor to the well-known Cucumber Ruby project, where his test-focused fixes improved JUnit reporting and edge-case coverage—an indication of his practical commitment to tooling quality. Known for bridging detailed technical rigor with strategic execution, he brings both legacy systems experience from Cisco and Shopzilla and modern platform thinking to complex engineering organizations.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering at Bharathiar University
Github Skills (5)
ruby10
cucumber10
junit10
test-automation10
testing10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cucumber/cucumber-ruby
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
Cucumber for Ruby. It's amazing!
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits in 10 days
Contributions summary:Ragavan primarily contributed to improving the quality of the `cucumber-ruby` project by adding and modifying tests. Their work focused on addressing issues related to skipped scenarios in JUnit reports, ensuring that they are correctly handled. This included creating new test cases and modifying existing ones to cover different scenarios and edge cases. They also fixed indentation issues within the codebase, contributing to improved code readability.
cucumberrubypolyglot-releasetidelift
ambirag/python101-for-kids
Sep 2019 - Jul 2023
This repo for teaching EGA School as part of Sep 2019 Expedia Day of Caring
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 years 9 months
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