# Raghul Siddarthan Velusamy > Staff Software Engineer, Android at Lyft Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/raghulsiddarthanvelusamy Highly Analytical, energetic, performance driven Master's student in Information Systems with around two years of work experience in Software Engineering. Highly organized and detail oriented with proficient analytical, problem-solving, communication & time management skills. Proven ability to work in both independent and team oriented environment. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer, Android @ Lyft Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer 2 @ Microsoft Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer 2 @ Wayfair Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area ### Software Developer (Android) @ Wayfair Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Boston, Massachusetts • Assisted and developed the wayfair 4.0 app which was a complete change from Activity to Fragment based architecture. • Developed and maintained Wayfair open source library: Brickkit and Golley • Played a key role in overhauling the golley library and switching to Retrofit and RxJava and then to RxJava2 • Created the in-app-stickers for the wayfair Android app which lets users share snapchat like images to other platforms for their favorite products • Created a customized server implementation for the UI testing framework at Wayfair by modifying Wiremock, an API mocking tool. • Created an Integration testing framework for all the android apps at Wayfair • Wrote UI and Unit Test with Espresso, Mockito, Robolectric and Junit • Collaborate frequently with other Android Teams, UI/UX, Manual Testing to develop various new features for the multi-flavor Wayfair app. • Made use of several popular libraries including Retrofit, Dagger2, Rxjava, Fresco and Room • Refactored several old features into the new VIPER & DataBinding architecture. • Responsible for maintaining the Cart for the Wayfair android App and implemented several payment processing methods on the app. ### Teaching Assistant - Engineering BigData Systems @ Northeastern University Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Boston • Co-ordinated material and labs for Engineering of Big-Data Systems (INFO 7250) for 75+ students. • Conducted weekly lab sessions to teach students -MongoDb, Hadoop, Hbase, Pig and Mahout. • Weekly Grading of assignments and Tests. ### Teaching Assistant @ Northeastern University Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Boston • Worked with Prof.Vincent Lattuada as Teaching assistant of Data Mgt and Database Design (INFO 6210) which focusses on MySQL. • Co-ordinated material and labs for 45+ students. • Conducted weekly lab sessions and office hours to help students with assignments and doubts. • Weekly Grading of assignments and Tests. ### Software Engineer - Android @ Nok Nok Labs Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area Leading R&D efforts on a ubiquitous authentication infrastructure product to enable web authentication from any computing device. • Developed a convertor to convert TLV (Tag Length Value) format to JSON and vice versa. • Implemented a Mobile Test Harness application and a mock server to test the Authenticator Kernel for the UAF (Universal Authentication Framework) protocol. • Extended the Mobile Test Harness Application to Fuzz and test the robustness of the Authenticator Kernel. • Engineered a Tutorial App for the clients to demonstrate the full capability of the SDK to reduce the difficulties in implementation, reduce the number of support cases and documented it. ### Programmer Analyst @ Cognizant Technology Solutions Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Debugged, tested modules/components and ensured quality software products for leading US clients. Analyzed requirements and design documents to test the functionalities, framed test plans, strategies, test evaluation summary report documents and defect management procedures in HP Quality Center. Prepared a best practice document named “Guide for Testing UNICA NetInsight”. Presented papers on the topics “Ex cogitative Discrete Optimization of Test Scenarios” and “Rejected Defects & the Psychology of Testing” based on several observations faced during testing cycles. Cognizant Certified Professional in Software Testing and HP Quality Center ## Education ### Master of Science (MS) in Information Systems Northeastern University ### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Mechanical Engineering PSG College of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/raghulvelusamy --- Source: https://flows.cv/raghulsiddarthanvelusamy JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/raghulsiddarthanvelusamy/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12