Founder, Founder & CTO
All things tech and product. And people and hiring. And everything else in between
Ramkumar Venkataraman
Founder, Senior Engineer, Architect, Product
Founder, Senior Engineer, Architect, Product
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Experience
EMURGO
Senior Software Engineer
1) Traceability solution for supply chain: built on top of permissioned blockchain and smart contracts. Our first clients are the Indonesian coffee farmers: https://www.brandmarktrace.com/.... more Designed and coded up the complete backend, while also making sure it is extensible for future clients and domains
2) Webinar platform: designed and built all the core modules of video conferencing, instant messaging, payments and CMS for a client
2) Webinar platform: designed and built all the core modules of video conferencing, instant messaging, payments and CMS for a client
Senior Full-stack Engineer
Senior engineer/product manager working on expanding to Australia and New Zealand markets.
Day-to-day: Talking to customers to get product feedback, looking at NPS data... more to find out the pain points, talking to CS/verification/operations team to see potential improvements, negotiate with the regulators to improve the compliance procedures, market research for new product ideas.
Tech: architecture, coding and reviews of partner integrations and new payments rails we are integrating with
Day-to-day: Talking to customers to get product feedback, looking at NPS data... more to find out the pain points, talking to CS/verification/operations team to see potential improvements, negotiate with the regulators to improve the compliance procedures, market research for new product ideas.
Tech: architecture, coding and reviews of partner integrations and new payments rails we are integrating with
PayPal
Member Technical Staff 1
* Architect and lead engineer – lambda-architecture data pipeline for tracking users on
PayPal web and mobile app using Kafka, Spark and Druid. Re-designed data ingestion... more pipeline to handle volume of 5 Billion events a day with 40%
additional holiday-season scale and 99.9% data availability. This resulted in savings of $5 Million/year in infrastructure costs and 80 man-hours/week of operational costs.
* Lead developer of Peer-to-Peer Send Money REST-ful API, a highly available and scalable service. It handles 600k+ requests every day and contributes 8% of PayPal's TPV. Architect of PayPal's recent product - PayPal.me, which has close to a million people registered and contributed around $20 Million TPV since launch.
PayPal web and mobile app using Kafka, Spark and Druid. Re-designed data ingestion... more pipeline to handle volume of 5 Billion events a day with 40%
additional holiday-season scale and 99.9% data availability. This resulted in savings of $5 Million/year in infrastructure costs and 80 man-hours/week of operational costs.
* Lead developer of Peer-to-Peer Send Money REST-ful API, a highly available and scalable service. It handles 600k+ requests every day and contributes 8% of PayPal's TPV. Architect of PayPal's recent product - PayPal.me, which has close to a million people registered and contributed around $20 Million TPV since launch.
Exit
Software Development Engineer 1
Oracle India
Member Technical Staff
CRM
End-end development of collaboration suite which enables customer-service
* Oracle agents find the knowledge owner and collaborate to help resolve the customer tickets
Entropy
Member Technical Staff
Founder
Employee
Projects
Asset class from SaaS subscriptions
Co-founder, Product · Discounting revenues means discounting valuation. SaaS companies lose up to 35% revenues and valuation by pushing their customers… · More into discounted annual subscriptions. Worse, they lose profitability along the way. And selling shares cost them millions and brings dilution. Venture Debt is expensive and often comes with Warrants that is even more expensive.
Product, Strategy and customer acquisition
Product, Strategy and customer acquisition
Education
About
Achievements
1) Failed founder (Product) - tried to replicate pipe.com in Europe
2) Hands-on engineer
2) Architected high scale systems
3) Product Management experience (in fintech, blockchain and consulting)
Skills
Locations
Q&A
What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?
Act like a leader, think like a leader
What's your favorite non-business book?
Meditations
If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?
Writing fiction, screenwriting, self-help business about randomness in life
What words of advice would you give your younger self?
Don't rule out the role of luck and don't over-estimate your genius
Which founders or startups do you most admire?
Basecamp founders
What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?
LinkedIn, email
What words of wisdom do you live by?
Most of what happens in life has a large proportion of luck involved, you could get lucky by exposing systematically to randomness
What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?
Testing the code, designing for scale, thinking from first principles
What's something you wish you had done years earlier?
Move out of India and explore other countries
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