Ramya Rao
Engineering Manager at Stripe
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRamya Rao is an engineering manager at Stripe who leads the team building open-source developer SDKs, bringing deep experience in developer platforms and API ergonomics. She spent over a decade at Microsoft where she led JavaScript/Node.js SDK efforts for Azure and was the sole maintainer of the popular VS Code Go extension for about four years, helping make VS Code a top choice for Go developers. Ramya blends hands-on release and SDK generation work—evident in her contributions to Stripe’s PHP and Node libraries—with people leadership that scales developer experience across cloud services. She has a strong full-stack background spanning databases, REST APIs, front-end JavaScript, and server-side Node.js, and a track record of shipping tooling and platform features that improve developer productivity. Based in Fremont, CA, she brings a pragmatic, user-focused approach to API design and open-source collaboration. Her career path from Hyderabad to Redmond to the Bay Area underscores both long-term technical depth and cross-cultural operational experience.
3 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
English, Hindi, Kannada
Github Skills (12)
release-management10
nodejs10
php10
javascript10
api10
release-automation10
apidoc10
stripe10
stripe-js9
sdk9
apim9
testing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
stripe/stripe-php
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
PHP library for the Stripe API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 releases, 48 reviews, 1 commit in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ramya primarily focused on version bumping within the Stripe PHP library. They consistently updated the library version, indicating a role in managing releases and potentially dependency updates. Their contributions involved modifying a single file, `lib/Stripe.php`, to reflect these version changes. Additional commits show changes in files like `lib/Event.php`, `lib/Product.php`, `lib/PaymentMethodConfiguration.php`, `lib/Invoice.php`, `lib/BalanceTransaction.php`, `lib/Climate/Supplier.php`, `lib/HttpClient/CurlClient.php`, `lib/TaxRate.php` and `lib/Util/ApiVersion.php`, related to new feature or API changes.
apistripestripe-sdkphppayment
stripe/stripe-node
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Node.js library for the Stripe API.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 releases, 70 reviews, 6 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ramya primarily focused on version bumping and release management within the Node.js library. Their contributions included updating the Stripe package version across multiple commits. Additionally, the user appears to have been involved in generating the SDK, including changes to test files, indicating an understanding of API integrations and testing procedures for the Stripe API.
apistripejs-librarynode-jsstripe-payments
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