Understand the system
Trace the real constraints, failure modes, and human workflows before choosing the solution.
Software engineer · Seattle, WA
Hi, I’m Raghav.
Software engineer.
Systems thinker.
I design reliable systems and thoughtful developer tools—turning complex technical problems into software people can understand and trust.
- Focus
- Distributed systems
- Craft
- Developer experience
- Approach
- Build for reality
01 About
Good software should feel calm, even when the system behind it isn’t.
I enjoy taking ambiguous, high-stakes problems and turning them into understandable systems. That usually means thinking across architecture, interfaces, testing, operations, and the people who will use what I build.
My favorite work lives between deep engineering and practical usefulness: making infrastructure resilient, making tools intuitive, and leaving a codebase clearer than I found it.
02 How I work
Design for the edges
Build for production reality: observability, graceful failure, clear ownership, and change over time.
Make it easy to use
Treat developer experience as product design. The best interface is the one people can trust quickly.
03 Experience
2021—NOW
Software Development Engineer
Amazon · Seattle, WA
Designing and operating distributed services and developer tools at scale, with an emphasis on clear interfaces, production reliability, incident visibility, and mentoring engineers.
2020—2021
Algorithms Research Intern
MIT · Cambridge, MA
Built analysis pipelines exploring how algorithmic ideas move from theory into programming languages, open-source software, and research.
2019—2020
Research Assistant
UT Dallas · Richardson, TX
Developed an Android application supporting machine-learning-assisted medical image capture and classification.
2018
Google Summer of Code Intern
AOSSIE · Delhi, India
Created real-time spatial-computing features using C++, Objective-C, OpenGL, GPS, and NASA coordinate data.
04 Toolbox
PythonJavaC++TypeScript
ReactAWSMicroservices
Event-driven systemsGraphQLDynamoDB
MySQLCI/CDLinux
05 Elsewhere
COMMUNITY↗
Teaching & mentorship
Onboarding engineers, mentoring Google Summer of Code contributors, and helping open-source communities grow.
RESEARCH↗
Ideas into experiments
IEEE publications, computer vision research, hackathons, and a long-running curiosity about how software meets the world.
06 Contact