About

Raghunathan Balan is a highly motivated and skilled software developer currently working at Google. He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. With over 2 years of relevant experience, Raghunathan has a keen interest in competitive programming and regularly participates in coding competitions. He is an active competitive programmer on websites like Codeforces and Codechef, with Codeforces handle as Raghu150999 and Codechef handle as raghu_nathan. Raghunathan has a strong passion for software development and has worked on multiple projects in this field. He has worked as a Software Developer at Adobe, where he developed automation frameworks for end-to-end testing of Adobe Cloud Platform microservices. He also developed a web application for generating Distributed Tracing of request flows through Adobe Cloud Platform for faster debugging and root cause analysis. As a Software Engineer Intern at Google, Raghunathan developed an android application in Java for Small Medium-sized business (SMB) merchants. The application enables merchants to generate a product catalogue by using live camera feed and machine learning to detect products automatically. He integrated the application with the consumer side to provide an end-to-end experience from processing online orders to the delivery of the order. He worked with technologies like Firebase Cloud Firestore for cloud storage and database services, MLKit for machine learning, and Python Flask for back-end server. Raghunathan's technical skills include Software Engineering, Test, Microservices, Web, ML, Flask, Backend, Python, Java, and Android. He is a highly motivated and skilled software developer with a strong passion for competitive programming and software development.