Summary
Rucha Samant is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience, currently building software at Microsoft after a long tenure developing medical device applications at Medtronic. She holds an MS in Computer Science from USC and has deep expertise in Android, architecture refactors (MVP→Flux), dependency injection, RxJava, and automated testing—skills she used to lead the Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation initiative. Rucha combines hands-on engineering with people leadership, having managed offshore teams and driven feature planning and sprint delivery for regulated hardware-software products. Based in San Jose, she brings a pragmatic focus on prototyping and usability testing with clinicians and patients, a detail that helped translate prototypes into product-defining features.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at University of Southern California
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, 75.58/100, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, 75.58/100 at Thadomal Shahani Engineering College
English, Hindi, Marathi