About

Hey there! My name is Raja and I'm a software engineer. I enjoy going to hackathons and I occasionally write - click below to go to my blog or my Medium page.

Work Experience

I've gotten to work at a couple of cool places over the years, check them out!

Cofounder at Pinstripe

Technical Lead at InvestNext

Software Engineer at Mistplay

Software Engineer Intern at Confluent

Mountain View, California, United States
Confluent is a data streaming platform powered by Apache Kafka. My intern project was to build a CLI that helped security admins monitor their Confluent Platform for suspicious activity and security threats.

Software Engineer Intern at Databricks

San Francisco, California, United States
Databricks provides a Unified Analytics Platform built atop Apache Spark that helps companies analyze their data. As a Software Engineer Intern, I helped integrate JupyterLab into Databricks.

Software Engineer Intern at Lending Loop

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lending Loop is the first (and only!) regulated peer-to-peer lending platform in Canada. As a Software Engineer Intern, I worked on an application that we used to verify, approve and manage loan applications.

Product Manager Intern at Vidyard

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Vidyard is the video layer of the internet. As a Product Manager Intern, I worked with engineers on different projects (the biggest one being a remodel of our system notification architecture which reduced the time required to send a system notification by over 50%), analyzed a lot of data and prepared reports with HEAP and Periscope and wrote product briefs.
The tools I used include Sequel Pro, Periscope Data, Heap Analytics and Jira

Projects

  • Blok.it

    Winner of the QHacks #HackHarassment award by MLH
    Chrome Extension that blocks any web content considered to be offensive or hateful. Check it out on the Chrome store here

  • Attention Seeker

    Honourable Mention at Hack The 6ix
    Instagram Tool that analyzes a user and his/her followers' activity to determine the best time to post a picture and receive the most likes. Check out the GitHub repo here

  • deSNAP

    Android app that allows users to send pictures to each other confidentially. Includes features like the ability to scan QR codes to add other users. Check out the GitHub repo here

  • Pokemon Evo

    PokeDex-like Python Flask app. Check out the GitHub repo here

  • PackBuddy

    Travel companion that helps you decide which souvenirs to keep when short on luggage space. Check out the Github repo here

Blog

I like to write stuff sometimes. Check out my blog below.
I also occasionally write on Medium.