Prakash Raman
Engineering Manager at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolPrakash Raman is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience building distributed systems, microservices, data pipelines, and public/platform APIs, currently leading engineering at Shopify after serving as VP of Application Development at Sentiance. He has repeatedly combined hands-on full-stack delivery with strategic leadership—founding and scaling product and services companies, architecting SaaS platforms, and running remote development teams. At Sentiance he translated motion sensor data into production-grade intelligence for personalization and safety, supervising the platform from API to analytics. Comfortable across cloud-native stacks (AWS Lambda, Redis, Elasticsearch) and team stages from prototypes to enterprise rollouts, he emphasizes reliable, full-cycle application delivery. Known for turning product ideas into investor-ready demos, he brings entrepreneurial grit alongside deep technical execution. Based in Toronto, he pairs practical system design with a builder’s mindset rooted in early-career work on virtualization and core UI frameworks.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, BANGALORE
English
Stackoverflow
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23answers
218questions
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Github Skills (200)
mobile-development10
windows10
authentication10
firebase-authentication10
app-framework10
skiasharp10
skia10
swift10
dart10
aws-lambda10
cross-platform10
android10
serverless-framework10
mobile10
macos10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
prakashraman/doubledown
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:187 pushes, 7 branches in 6 months
1985apps/PineKit
Feb 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:114 commits, 6 PRs, 107 pushes in 1 year 3 months
swiftiosuikitui-kit
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