Rishi Ramraj
Chief Technology Officer at Sling
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRishi Ramraj is a pragmatic engineering leader and CTO with 14 years of experience building reliable, data-driven systems and scaling product teams. Based in Florida, he leads a 18-person product development organization at Sling, driving initiatives that cut technical debt, enabled business growth (active accounts +120%, users +97.5%), and kept downtime under ten minutes. Deeply hands-on, he ships backend and database improvements—from no-downtime DB upgrades to performance tuning ETLs—and contributes to notable open-source tooling like pgcli. A terminal-first Python developer who reads textbooks for fun, Rishi blends rigorous technical craft with coaching to push teams to take measured risks.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BASc Systems Design Engineering, BASc Systems Design Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (6)
databases10
postgresql10
pytest10
python10
command-execution10
database10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dbcli/pgcli
May 2018 - May 2018
Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:16 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Rishi primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the `pgcli` project, focusing on the core logic for executing commands and handling special commands. They fixed bugs related to command execution, especially file input and special commands and implemented features related to special commands. Their changes also involved modifications to the testing framework to include and address negative test cases to improve reliability.
pythonpsqlautocompletiondatabasepostgres
RishiRamraj/interviews
Jun 2014 - Oct 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
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