Ram Patra is a seasoned software engineering leader with 12 years of experience currently serving as Director of Software Engineering at Mastercard, where he led blockchain-focused engineering and helped kickstart a CBDC project on a proprietary Java-based permissioned blockchain. He combines hands-on product building and open-source pedigree—authoring the JBot Java framework (1K+ stars) and the animatescroll.js plugin—as well as consumer-facing apps like Presentify, used by professors at Harvard and MIT. Ram’s background spans backend systems at scale (ad exchange infrastructure at Yahoo) to full‑stack and startup founder work dating back to Compzets, where his Windows utility and plugins attracted significant media attention. A pragmatic engineer and tinkerer, he prefers solving “tiny” real-world problems with small, focused apps while also operating at enterprise scale.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology at Trident Academy of Technology (TAT), Bhubaneswar
Matriculation, Matriculation at St. Joseph's High School
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 9 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ram primarily contributed to the demo portion of the `animatescroll.js` project, adding examples and modifying the user interface. Their commits focused on updating the `demo.html` and `custom.css` files to incorporate new demonstration options and style adjustments. These changes enhanced the user experience by showcasing different easing effects and options available within the jQuery plugin, as well as some minor UI adjustments.
A free online portfolio website to showcase your photos.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:10 reviews, 11 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ram primarily contributed to the front-end development of a photography portfolio website. They implemented the initial design by integrating Font Awesome for icons and adding HTML structure. The user added image display functionality by including image files in the index.html page and configuring the poptrox library for a gallery view. They also incorporated responsive design elements and handled image resizing.
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