About

Hi, I'm Rahul. I'm a Staff Software Engineer at Google working on AndroidX Performance; focusing on making the Android ecosystem fast and efficient. This blog is my outlet for writing about software engineering and Android performance. Outside of work, I'm a bit of a tinkerer—obsessed with mechanical keyboards, cameras, and my Ubiquiti homelab.

Blog Posts

2026

• Mechanical Keyboards and the end game
• Kotlin Intrinsics on Android
• 10 Years at Google

2024

• Mutable Types in Wire

2021

• OAK-D-IOT and MicroPython
• Computational Cameras and DepthAI

2020

• Building an E-Ink Calendar, and a UI Toolkit along the way
• Path Tracing with Jetpack Compose
• Style Transfer from first principles
• Introducing androidx.dev
• Bokehlicious Selfies
• Using AndroidX Snapshot Builds

2019

• Ad Blocking and Pi-Hole
• Kotlin Native and the Azure Kinect DK
• TensorRT and the Jetson Nano
• Self Driving RC Cars and the Jetson Nano
• First Entry