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 Software Engineer III at Teladoc Health.

Creator of

• Le Face Keyboard – World’s first re-programmable keyboard on Android that is meant to make your conversations enjoyable! Re-map the keyboard with your preference unicode emoticons, chain of emoticons, sentences, textual memes, and copypastas as keys – Use anywhere on Android device, then switch back to regular keyboard. When released, the app was organically discovered and discussed by popular Youtube channels.

• 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 (Now deprecated).

Hands-on

Kotlin, Android 5 to Android 14, Realm DB, Livedata/ Kotlin Flow, Coroutines, multi-module architecture, Clean Architecture with MVVM, REST/ GRPC, Manual dependency injection, Jetpack Compose

Employment History

(Aug 2020 – Present) Teladoc Health            

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

• Livongo Health: I was hired at Livongo Health and this company was later acquired by Teladoc Health. My contributions so far while working remotely:
  • Been a proactive and an effective communicator
  • Helped migrate codebase to Kotlin
  • Led the intiaitve to implement static analysis that greatly simplified our PR review process and code quality
  • Led the intiaitve to to build a remote-logging framework which significantly improved communication with backend team
  • Improved MVVM based-code by borrowing use-case pattern from Clean Architecture
  • Led the intiaitve to migrate codebase to Jetpack Compose
  • Won a Hackathon for best client impact in 2023

(Feb 2019 – Aug 2020) Parents Inc (previously 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 many new features on the app including a few experimental ones and migrated the codebase to Kotlin
  • Built a POC on Instant Apps
  • Collaborated with tech teams and actively mentored peers
  • Introduced solutions that sped 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.
  • Single handedly build 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
  • Built a solid team from scratch
• 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. My content was referred in academia and discussed in podcasts.