Rahul Raveendranath
Software Development Engineer III at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRahul Raveendranath is a Software Development Engineer III in Seattle with 14 years of experience building web and mobile systems across startups and large-scale services at Amazon. He brings multi-language expertise—Java, C/C++, Clojure, PHP, Android and web tech—and a practical background in back-end engineering, evidenced by contributions to the widely used phpBB open-source forum. Rahul combines hands-on product instincts from co-founding consumer and social-impact ventures with deep systems skills honed across successive Amazon SDE roles. He’s curious about emerging tech—quantum computing, AI/ML and functional programming—and maintains a developer-first workflow (Vim enthusiast). That mix of entrepreneurship, open-source contribution, and production-scale engineering makes him adept at turning ambiguous problems into reliable, maintainable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, TrivandrumMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at College of Engineering, Trivandrum
English, Hindi, Malayalam
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
php10
whiteboard10
bitboard10
utf10
forum10
html8
ideavim6
git6
phpexcel6
pycharm6
android6
github6
database-design6
android-layout6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
phpbb/phpbb
Apr 2012 - May 2012
phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Rahul primarily contributed to the phpBB forum software's back-end functionality. Their work involved modifying the display of forum list subjects, including truncating, adding newlines, and adding permission checks. The user also integrated UTF-8 functions and corrected code indentation. Furthermore, they addressed issues related to subject display based on user permissions and implemented an option to control this behavior.
bulletin-boardbulletinforumphpphpbb
rahulr92/blood_bank
Jan 2012 - Feb 2012
Contributions:11 commits in 26 days
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