Raksha Muthukumar
Founder - Tech & Ethics Consultant at Rax Media, LLC
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaksha Muthukumar is a founder and tech ethics consultant with 11 years of experience blending hands-on software engineering and values-driven education. Based in New York, she has shipped front-end features for Google's AMP Web Stories—improving UX, accessibility, and edge-case navigation in a high-traffic open-source project—while also architecting full-stack automations that reduced recruiter workload by a third. She trains and advises nonprofits, universities, and startups on tech ethics, DEI, and sexual health technology, and has written for outlets like Mashable and PBS Rewire on privacy-sensitive topics. A former Google software engineer and intern, she pairs practical engineering skills (TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Python) with curriculum design and public speaking at institutions like Stanford and ACM/IEEE. Notably, she leverages her background in sex education and privacy to help organizations communicate and build products that center user safety and marginalized communities.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyExchange Year Computer Science, Exchange Year Computer Science at EPFL
English
Github Skills (8)
html10
css10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
testing9
accessibility9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ampproject/amphtml
Oct 2020 - May 2021
The AMP web component framework.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:63 reviews, 21 commits, 42 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Raksha primarily contributed to the front-end development of the AMP Story framework, focusing on the `amp-story` component. They fixed bugs related to page advancement and navigation, particularly addressing edge case scenarios such as stories with a single page or tap interactions near the screen edges. The user implemented UI improvements, including a dark theme for the new inline CTA and modifications to the page attachment button UI, and created example pages.
web-componentscomponent-frameworkframeworkwebcomponentsweb-component
raxsha/amphtml
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
The AMP web component framework.
Contributions:2 PRs, 347 pushes, 58 branches in 8 months
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