Murali Krishna Ramanathan is a Principal Applied Scientist in AWS AI Labs and co-leads AWS CodeWhisperer, a ML powered service that generates code in the IDE based on existing code and comments. He is passionate about building software tools and workflows that help improve developer productivity. In the past, he built Piranha, an automated refactoring tool to delete code due to stale feature flags and led code quality initiatives at Uber engineering. He is a recipient of the Google faculty award (2015), ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished paper award (ISSTA 2016) and Maurice Halstead award (Purdue 2006).