Summary
Raghunathan Balan is a software developer with 12 years of experience, currently building systems at Google after earlier roles at Adobe and a Google internship where he shipped an ML-enabled Android app for SMB merchants. He has strong hands-on experience in automation frameworks, distributed tracing and end-to-end debugging for cloud microservices, and has built production web and mobile tooling using technologies like Firebase, ML Kit and Python Flask. An active competitive programmer on Codeforces and CodeChef, he regularly hones algorithmic skills that complement his system-design and implementation work. Based in Bengaluru and grounded in a BITS Pilani computer science education, he brings a mix of product-focused engineering and rapid prototyping, with a knack for turning complex traces and telemetry into faster debugging workflows.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science