Summary
Ravi Gadad is a staff-level software engineer and technical architect based in Portland, Oregon, with two decades of broad technical experience and 12 years in focused professional engineering roles. He designs and builds decoupled microservices and platform architectures, championing separation of concerns and reusable internal libraries to accelerate delivery. At Abl Schools he currently combines hands-on engineering with architecture leadership, and previously led platform design and team-building at Renew Financial. His background includes geospatial systems and cost/benefit visualization tools built on PostgreSQL/PostGIS, reflecting a practical mix of backend, data, and product-facing engineering. A lifelong musician by training (UCLA, Music Performance), he brings a creative perspective to system design and mentoring. Colleagues describe him as principled, pragmatic, and invested in growing collaborative, high-performing teams.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles