Raghav Nair
Senior Software Development Engineer In Test at The Pokémon Company International
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaghav Nair is a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test based in Redmond with nine years of experience building and validating backend services across entertainment and tech giants including The Pokémon Company International, Amazon, and Twitter. He combines a strong theoretical foundation—a B.S. in Mathematics from University of Washington and an M.Eng. in Computer Science from Syracuse—with hands-on SDET expertise in automation, contract testing, and cloud migrations. At TPCi he has partnered closely with developers to ship high-quality releases and also made notable open-source backend contributions to the widely used PokeAPI, enhancing PokemonSpecies models and serializers. Raghav mentors technical candidates as a Technical Mentor at Interview Kickstart, reflecting a knack for translating deep technical concepts into teachable practice. He’s equally comfortable writing test frameworks in Kotlin, Python, and Bash as he is improving CI/build processes and test coverage strategies. Practical, detail-oriented, and community-minded, he blends rigorous math-trained problem solving with production-focused engineering.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics at University of WashingtonMaster of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at Syracuse University
Malayalam, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
api10
serializer10
pokemongo10
python10
django10
pytest9
testing9
graphql8
wpgraphql8
wordpress-graphql8
sql5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PokeAPI/pokeapi
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
The Pokémon API
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Raghav primarily contributed to the backend of the PokeAPI project, focusing on enhancing the `PokemonSpecies` model and its associated serializers and tests. Their work included adding new fields related to Pokemon characteristics like legendary and mythical status, and updating the build process to incorporate these fields. Further, the user formatted code and removed an ultrabeast column.
pokeapiapimonnodejsgraphql
nairraghav/advent-of-code
Dec 2019 - Dec 2024
Contributions:60 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 1 month
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