Ashi Krishnan
Director Of Technology at RAD EL DUB COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarAshi Krishnan is a Director of Technology based in San Francisco with 11 years of engineering experience building developer tools, distributed systems, and product-facing web platforms. Formerly a Senior Engineer at Apollo GraphQL and GitHub, Ashi contributed to Federation 2.0 design, compiler work in TypeScript and Rust, and CLI tooling for a widely used GraphQL project, blending backend engineering with automation. They’ve led curriculum design and instruction at immersive bootcamps and translated that pedagogy into pragmatic technical leadership—guiding teams from prototype to production. At a nonprofit they architected AI-assisted grant research and tracking systems that dramatically increased fundraising effectiveness. Comfortable across stacks (Rails, JS, Rust) and roles from SRE to principal engineer, Ashi combines deep systems thinking with product-driven execution.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (32)
controller10
model-driven10
testing10
rspec10
rails10
wpgraphql10
led-controller10
model-building10
controls10
wordpress-graphql10
command-line-tool10
graphql10
rust10
controller-advice10
schema10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
apollographql/federation
Apr 2020 - Jul 2022
🌐 Build and scale a single data graph across multiple services with Apollo's federation gateway.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:67 reviews, 61 commits, 36 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ashi primarily worked on building a command-line interface (CLI) tool, likely for managing and interacting with GraphQL schemas. They added features such as a "print" command to parse and pretty-print GraphQL schemas and implemented snapshot testing. The user also refactored the project structure and improved the CLI's install script. These contributions suggest involvement in both backend development and build automation.
graph-datascaleapollo-federationgatewayfederation
learn-co-students/forms-and-basic-associations-rails-lab-v-000
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ashi contributed to the initial setup and development of a Rails application, starting with the foundational structure and incorporating feature specifications. They implemented core components, including models, controllers, and views. Furthermore, the user demonstrated proficiency by incorporating user interface elements via feature specs, along with testing different facets of models and the form submission procedure. The development included defining database schema, along with initial implementations of features.
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