Shiva Rajagopal
Staff Software Engineer Manager, Conversational Experience (Fitbit App)
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolShiva Rajagopal is a Staff Software Engineer and manager in the San Francisco Bay Area who blends deep embedded systems experience with current leadership in agentic AI for consumer health at Google/Fitbit. He has shipped multiple flagship wearables (Fitbit Sense, Versa 3, Versa Lite), led cross-functional teams through hardware-to-cloud product cycles, and now designs conversational agents that translate complex sensor and health data into personalized, on-demand insights. Comfortable toggling between low-level firmware and high-level ML infrastructure, he builds evaluation and localization pipelines while fast‑pivoting teams to leverage new AI capabilities like prompt‑tuned Gemini. A Cornell ECE graduate with internships at Tesla and Microsoft and hands-on satellite and maker‑project experience, he’s as at home debugging microcontrollers as he is mentoring engineers and running outreach programs to inspire the next generation. Colleagues know him for shipping quickly without sacrificing safety and for turning interdisciplinary prototypes into production-ready features that move user health metrics.
5 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University
Github Skills (31)
netty10
go-language10
java10
grpc-java10
proto10
rpc10
bazel-rules10
golang10
microservices10
protobuf10
grpc10
go9
asynchronous8
csharp7
application-framework7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
shivaspeaks/grpc-java
Jul 2024 - Apr 2025
The Java gRPC implementation. HTTP/2 based RPC
Contributions:129 pushes, 44 branches in 8 months
shivaspeaks/OkayApp
Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
Use and showcase of realtime database - cloud firestore and integrating it with flutter app.
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 2 years 1 month
realtimeflutter-appflutter-appsfirestorefirebase
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