Girish Ramakrishnan
Co-founder at Cloudron
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGirish Ramakrishnan is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of professional experience, currently co-founding and leading Cloudron to simplify private cloud app hosting from California. His background blends systems-level engineering at companies like Cisco and Trolltech with product and architectural leadership at Intel, where he led an HTML5 tools team. An active open-source contributor, Girish has strengthened the Haraka SMTP server with security and configuration improvements—work that reflects his focus on reliability and extensibility in backend systems. He started multiple ventures, bringing practical startup experience to building developer-friendly platform products. Girish holds a B.E. in Computer Science from NIT Tiruchirappalli and is comfortable moving between low-level protocol fixes and higher-level platform architecture.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli
Github Skills (16)
smtpd10
mtls10
configuration-management10
javascript10
nodejs10
tls1210
smtp10
smtps10
tls1310
libtls10
testing9
user-authentication9
authentication9
spf8
mongodb-database3
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
haraka/Haraka
May 2016 - Nov 2022
A fast, highly extensible, and event driven SMTP server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 36 commits, 48 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Girish primarily focused on enhancing the Haraka SMTP server's core functionality. Their contributions involved implementing features like allowing CIDR ranges for TLS, improving LDAP client error handling, and enabling domain-specific configurations. They also fixed bugs related to authentication and added features such as configuring the SMTPS port and handling domain-specific configurations for outbound email. The user's work directly impacted the server's reliability, security, and configuration flexibility.
harakasmtpmailmtajavascript
cloudron-io/node-ldapjs
Oct 2016 - Dec 2020
LDAP Client and Server API for node.js
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 2 months
apijsnode-jsldap-clientldap
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