Roopak Venkatakrishnan
Co-Founder at Accel
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoopak Venkatakrishnan is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building and scaling platforms across Google, Twitter, Bolt and early-stage startups. As Co-Founder of Caro and Angel Investor with Accel, he blends hands-on engineering, product sensibility, and security/compliance experience—having led Bolt’s platforms, PCI program and SOC2 kickoff. He’s a pragmatic backend engineer (notably contributing to Go PayPal client work) who moves between low-level API design and org-level infrastructure decisions. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with business accounting training, a combination that helps him translate technical tradeoffs into operational and commercial outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityCertificate In Business Accounting Accounting and Business/Management, Certificate In Business Accounting Accounting and Business/Management at CIMABE Computer Science and Engineering, BE Computer Science and Engineering at Anna University Chennai
English, Tamil
Stackoverflow
563reputation
42kreached
12answers
7questions
Github Skills (20)
paypal10
json10
api-rest10
apidoc10
restful-api10
api-design10
go10
api10
rest-api10
webhooks9
testing9
html6
remote-desktop6
redirect6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
plutov/paypal
Jun 2019 - May 2020
Golang client for PayPal REST API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 21 reviews, 20 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Roopak primarily contributed to the creation and modification of API calls and data structures related to the PayPal REST API client. They implemented order creation functionality, introduced specific payee handling, and addressed various fixes. Furthermore, the user added and adjusted data structures, encompassing the payer and shipping details, as well as integrating new type definitions for payment capturing and webhook verification.
golangapipaypal-restpaypalgolang-client
swissknife/circleci-node
Dec 2022 - Aug 2024
Circle CI Node Typescript SDK
Contributions:13 reviews, 31 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 8 months
javascriptcircle-cisdknode-typescriptcircleci
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