Summary
Krishna Satya is a seasoned engineering leader and entrepreneur with 10+ years building high-impact mobile and web products, currently serving as CTO and co-founder of Boom Vision where he reimagines video calls as expressive canvases. He combines hands-on expertise across native iOS/Android, React/React Native, C++, and Python/Django with a track record of shipping fast, user-focused experiences—from consumer games at Zynga to security and hardware-integrated apps at SurfEasy. Krishna excels in startup environments, rapidly taking concepts to production while balancing product design, API and client-server architecture, and performance optimization. He has led teams as an engineering manager at Shopify and founded Secret Mission Software to partner with clients on end-to-end mobile and web solutions, showing both strategic vision and tactical execution. A background in compilers, networking and real-time systems underpins his ability to solve tricky technical problems that lie beneath polished user interfaces.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BASc Computer Engineering, BASc Computer Engineering at University of Toronto