Ravi Desai
Senior Software Developer at ContactMonkey
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolRavi Desai is a Senior Software Developer with 14 years’ experience building high-performance backend systems and data-driven features, currently based in Old Toronto. He specializes in Ruby and PostgreSQL, and routinely shifts heavy computation into the database to achieve dramatic speedups (e.g., 50x and 10x improvements) while also maintaining Go microservices and Redis-backed caches for memory efficiency. Ravi blends hands-on performance tuning, API integrations (MS Graph, Gmail, Twilio), and infrastructure automation (Ansible, Terraform, Packer) to deliver reliable, scalable services for regulated and high-traffic environments. He has a track record of pragmatic rewrites—porting complex React Native work back into Rails and replacing VPNs with event-driven RabbitMQ solutions—to reduce operational cost and complexity. Trained in applied economics, he brings a quantitative, product-minded approach to technical tradeoffs and timelines.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Business Administration (Management), Diploma, Business Administration (Management) at Seneca PolytechnicBAH, Applied Economics, BAH, Applied Economics at Queen's University
English
Stackoverflow
471reputation
28kreached
5answers
3questions
Github Skills (35)
jsonpath10
jq10
json9
cli9
command-line-tool9
hashref8
command-line8
activerecord6
ruby-on-rails6
imgix6
common-lisp6
archlinux6
emacs6
office-js6
ruby6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ravster/pleasance
Nov 2011 - Jan 2023
Contributions:49 commits, 41 pushes, 3 branches in 11 years 4 months
ravster/pleasance-jruby
Feb 2015 - Oct 2021
Contributions:24 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 9 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.