Sanatt Abrol
Software Engineer at WhatsApp
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSanatt Abrol is a software engineer based in London with a decade of experience building Android and backend systems at top-tier tech companies including WhatsApp, Google and Microsoft. He has shipped features across Android Digital Wellbeing, foldable and large-screen experiences, and now contributes to Android at WhatsApp, demonstrating a focus on mobile UX and platform reliability. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core backend functionality in the widely used OpenMRS project—adding HL7-aware concept retrieval and tightening tests and code quality. Comfortable across stacks, he pairs a formal Computer Science degree with postgraduate full-stack training, reflecting both theoretical grounding and practical breadth. Colleagues describe him as a hacker and tech enthusiast who aims to build software that lasts, often preferring pragmatic, efficient changes (e.g., replacing StringBuffer with StringBuilder). He balances product-focused engineering with attention to maintainability and test coverage, making him effective on both greenfield features and legacy codebases.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree, Full stack software development, Postgraduate Degree, Full stack software development at International Institute of Information Technology BangaloreBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, 7.90, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, 7.90 at Birla Institute of Technology, MesraHigh School, Mathematics and Computer Science, 96.4%, High School, Mathematics and Computer Science, 96.4% at KC Public School
Github Skills (11)
javas10
junit10
health10
ehealth10
medical10
openmrs10
java10
jtest10
api-design9
srecord9
mx-record9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openmrs/openmrs-core
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
OpenMRS API and web application code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 24 PRs, 83 comments in 25 days
Contributions summary:Sanatt primarily contributed to the back-end of the OpenMRS core project by adding methods and updating tests within the ConceptService and associated data access objects. Their work included implementing functionality for retrieving concept sources by HL7 code and improving testing coverage. Furthermore, they addressed code quality concerns by removing redundant null checks and unnecessary whitespace characters. The user also made changes related to replacing newline characters and switching from StringBuffer to StringBuilder for more efficient string manipulation.
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GameHubBITMesra/GameHub
Mar 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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