Ershad Kunnakkadan
Chief Executive Officer at Gumroad
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErshad Kunnakkadan is a seasoned software leader with 16 years of experience building and scaling web platforms, now serving as CEO of Gumroad in New York. He rose through engineering ranks at Gumroad from senior staff to executive leadership, combining hands-on Ruby/Rails and full-stack expertise with product and operational responsibilities. Prior to Gumroad he drove architecture and DevOps work at BigBinary and Bang the Table, working across cloud infrastructure, containerization, and data migrations. He is pragmatic about solving customer-facing problems with reliable systems, shipping end-to-end features that span frontend, backend, and infrastructure. Known for blending developer empathy with strategic decision-making, he brings a developer-first perspective to executive leadership. Outside the C-suite, he remains an active technologist who enjoys diving into code to unblock teams and validate technical direction.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Bharathiar University
English, Malayalam, Hindi
Github Skills (84)
ruby10
defaults10
rails10
sane10
aws10
boilerplate10
academia9
stripe-api9
html9
testing9
terraform9
mvc9
ruby-on-rails9
gitlab-api9
terraform-provider9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
talentspace/talentspace.in
Sep 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:106 commits, 108 pushes, 10 branches in 11 months
ershad/ershad.github.io
Mar 2018 - Oct 2022
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