Rashmi Ramanathan
Principal Engineer at Freshworks
Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRashmi Ramanathan is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and observability platforms, currently leading Distributed Tracing efforts at Freshworks. She progressed through technical leadership roles over a decade—from Product Developer to Principal Engineer—bringing deep hands-on expertise in Java and Ruby on Rails. Her work on Freshworks’ Observability team builds on three years in Search and earlier contributions to an internal API framework, giving her a strong product-and-platform perspective. An active contributor to the widely used OpenTelemetry Java instrumentation project, she has fixed complex double-tracing bugs and optimized RabbitMQ and MongoDB instrumentations, demonstrating practical mastery of distributed tracing and test-driven improvements. Colleagues know her as a quick learner and effective leader who pairs pragmatic engineering with thoughtful refactoring. Based in Chengalpattu, India, she blends production-focused coding with mentoring and cross-team collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science and Engineering at Government College of Technology,CoimbatoreRaj Matric Hr Sec School
English, Tamil
Github Skills (11)
rabbitmq10
distributed-tracing10
opentelemetry10
javas10
instrumentation10
java10
testing10
mongodb-database9
spring-boot9
mongodb9
groovy8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation
May 2020 - Apr 2024
OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation and instrumentation libraries for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 41 comments in 4 years
Contributions summary:Rashmi primarily contributed to improving the OpenTelemetry Java instrumentation library, addressing bug fixes, and implementing enhancements related to tracing and configuration. They refactored the span processing using BatchSpansProcessor and configured trace settings from environment variables. The user also fixed a double-tracing bug in the MongoDB client instrumentation and optimized the RabbitMQ instrumentation, demonstrating a strong understanding of distributed tracing and testing within the Java environment. Their work involved modifying existing instrumentation code, adding tests, and ensuring semantic conventions were followed.
instrumentationinstrumentation-librariesjava-agenttracingauto-instrumentation
RashmiRam/opentelemetry-auto-instr-java
May 2020 - May 2022
OpenTelemetry Auto-Instrumentation for Java
Contributions:28 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
instrumentationjava-agenttracingauto-instrumentationobservability
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