Rajalakshmi Balakrishnan
Android Lead And Architect, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Home And Hub Team at PayPal
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolRajalakshmi Balakrishnan is an Android lead and architect with 12+ years building high-performance mobile platforms and backend services across PayPal, Yahoo, and Fujitsu. She designs and ships large-scale, server-driven mobile experiences—most recently architecting PayPal’s Hub SDK, caching and badging systems, and performance monitoring that shaved ~500ms off app start time. Comfortable across Java, Kotlin, C/C++, Linux and data analysis, she pairs deep systems and OO design skills with hands-on work in CI, profiling, and multi-tenant networking libraries. Her background in biomedical signal processing and big-data analytics at Fujitsu gives her a distinctive edge in extracting patterns from high-frequency sensor data. A pragmatic mentor and interim engineering manager, she fosters cross-platform alignment (including iOS guidance) and company-wide knowledge sharing through initiatives like an internal Android newsletter. Based in Sunnyvale, she blends architecture-level thinking with relentless attention to performance and developer experience.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of MadrasMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago
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Github Skills (45)
git10
github10
patch10
subversion10
kotlin9
coroutines8
openapi8
specification8
rest8
kotlin-library8
webapi8
async8
kotlin-coroutines7
surface-duo7
android-sdk7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
djmalice/InstaDine
Jul 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:170 commits in 1 month
rajab57/interviewbit
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
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