Rowan Krishnan
Engineering Manager at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRowan Krishnan is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and scaling high-performing product teams across video, travel, and fintech. Currently at Google after leading Vimeo’s Player engineering organization that powers over 5 billion minutes watched per month, he blends hands-on front-end contribution (including commits to the widely used vimeo/player.js) with a focus on performance, reliability, and quality of experience. He has a track record of growing teams and splitting responsibilities to optimize delivery—from expanding Lola’s engineering org and launching greenfield spend-management products to shaping Vimeo’s Player SDK. Based in New York, he pairs pragmatic technical depth with a people-first leadership style that emphasizes cohesive, motivated teams and shipping high-quality software.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Tufts University
English, javascript
Github Skills (4)
javascript10
player10
360-video9
vimeo7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vimeo/player.js
Apr 2021 - Oct 2022
Interact with and control an embedded Vimeo Player.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 48 reviews, 28 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Rowan made several commits focused on the Vimeo player's core functionality, indicating a front-end development role. Their contributions included removing a wrapper div during player destruction, removing unnecessary data attributes, fixing tests, and updating conditional ordering. These changes suggest a focus on refining the player's code base, improving efficiency, and ensuring proper functionality, which is typical of a front-end developer.
vimeo-playerplayervideovimeovimeo-player-api
rkrishnan8594/bluecent
May 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 98 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
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