Raj Agrawal

I completed Master of Computer Applications in 2014, and ever since I’ve been building and architecting Android apps. Currently employed as a Sr. Mobile Software Engineer at Livongo Health (now a part of Teladoc Health).

Creator of

• Le Face Keyboard – World’s first re-programmable keyboard on Android. Add Unicode emoticons, memes and copypastas as keys – Use them anywhere on your Android phone and switch back to regular keyboard. When released, the app was organically discovered and promoted by Youtubers:

• Dark Souls Soundboard – A soundboard app for revisiting and listening to NPC dialogues from the classic Dark Souls game. The app experience attempts to match the ambience of the game itself.

• Material Design in Practice – A repository to demonstrate the latest material design principles with simple examples. It has additional examples on how to easily scale texts on different screen sizes without extra effort.

Employment History

(Aug 2020 – Present) Teladoc Health            

Teladoc Health, Inc. is a multinational telemedicine and virtual healthcare company headquartered in the United States.

• Livongo: Was hired at Livongo Health and this company was quickly acquired by Teladoc Health. I helped migrate codebase to Kotlin, introduced static analysis which simplified our PR review process, built a remote-logging framework to shoot issue logs from app and “neatly” categorize them in one centralized web-console which significantly improved communication with backend team, introduced Jetpack Compose and migrated a small independent feature as a reference/ playground for team to learn from. Also won the organizational-wide Hackathon for best client impact.

(Feb 2019 – Aug 2020) Parents Inc (previously Tickled Media/ theAsianParent)

Parents Inc is headquartered in Singapore and their products help mothers and caretakers make good decisions that promote child welfare, development and happiness.

• TheAsianParent: A popular product for expecting mothers in South-East-Asia with 10 million plus users. 5+ millions users alone on Android.
  • Built new features on theAsianParent app including a few experimental ones and migrated the codebase to Kotlin. Collaborated with tech teams and actively mentored peers. Introduced solutions to speed up the app-update process using Continuous Deployment.

(Jun 2017 – Jan 2019) Stylabs Technologies Pvt. Ltd

Stylabs is based in Mumbai that strives to create unique, rewarding & minimal digital experiences. The company is now defunct.

• Styfi: A highly curated fashion apparel app (e-commerce).
  • Drove the full development cycle of this app and migrated the legacy codebase to Kotlin. 
• Collabb: An app for instagram influencers to connect with brands for collaborations.
  • Built app from scratch using Kotlin, MVVM and repository pattern.

(Aug 2014 – May 2017) Pretr Online Services Pvt. Ltd        

Pretr Online Services is based in Mumbai and operates as an end-to-end omnichannel platform for retail.

• Pretr Shop: India’s first Omnichannel e-commerce initiative. Soon acquired by MYNTRA.
  • Built one-third of Pretr Shop app features, modularised and wrote code using Clean Architecture with MVP. Migrated to Bazel build system for faster build times. I helped hire our team lead and one peer to help grow the team who turned out to be great assets for the company.
• Bullion India (Rebranded to Augmont): A popular trading app to buy and sell Silver/ Gold.
  • I was part of this project to fix ongoing issues like memory leaks and moving away from a polling mechanism to service based mechanism for fetching latest prices. 
• Inorbit Mall: An experience app for visitors of Inorbit mall PAN India.
  • Rebuilt the app from scratch. We also plugged-in Pretr Shop as a shopping module.

Previously

This website was initiated as UpcomingTechnology.ORG in the year 2010. Our content was referred in academia and discussed in podcasts.