Radu Vlad
Founder & CTO at Practava
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolRadu Vlad is a founder and CTO with 16 years of software experience and a strong startup pedigree, currently leading Practava after nearly a decade-building and scaling products as CTO of Skillsetter and director at Dreamcode Studios. A University of Waterloo alumnus in Computer Science and Business, he’s been shipping web and mobile apps professionally for 12+ years and has worked with Ruby on Rails since its early releases, alongside Node, Ember, Angular, and modern JavaScript. He combines hands‑on engineering with product-first leadership—frequently founding or co-founding ventures like SnapBound and CoopStudent—to move ideas from prototype to production. Based in Vancouver, he’s comfortable wearing multiple hats in small teams and brings a deep, historical perspective on Rails and front-end frameworks that informs pragmatic architecture and rapid iteration.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BCS Computer Science Business, BCS Computer Science Business at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (7)
kotlin6
android-jetpack-compose6
google-cloud-firestore6
google-cloud-functions6
android6
firebase6
kotlin-coroutines6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
radman/radman.github.io
May 2015 - Nov 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
acl-services/build-acl
Sep 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:28 PRs, 44 pushes, 23 branches in 3 months
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