About

Raj Kansagra is a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon with over 6 years of relevant experience in software engineering. He has a strong passion for developing web and mobile applications, designing algorithms, programming, and constantly learning new technologies. Currently, Raj is working at Amazon and has designed and developed the one-tap rating feature in the Alexa app, which enables users to leave a rating for Alexa skills with just one tap. This feature has increased the number of rated skills and helped to surface high-quality content to users. He is also working on making Alexa more proactive through skills suggestions based on various user activities. In the past, Raj has worked as a Software Engineer at Symantec, where he designed and developed components of Norton Clean application, a storage management application that allows users to clean and wipe unwanted data. He also developed the Unified Trial Licensing flow in Norton Mobile Security, which allows users to subscribe to Norton Security from the mobile app. Raj has also performed UX refresh and Componentization of various features of Norton Mobile Security Android Application. Raj has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai. He also has experience in High School and completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Mumbai and the University of Southern California, respectively. Raj has a strong tech stack, including software engineering, Android, mobile, Java, web, search, UI, backend, SQL, AWS, SDET, test, Javascript, Typescript, PHP, Elastic Search, and Spring. He is a skilled professional with a penchant for developing innovative solutions to complex problems.