Tejas Ravishankar
Founder at buildergroop
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolTejas Ravishankar is a founder and full-stack engineer with six years of experience building developer tools and startups, currently leading Dimension to accelerate collaboration in engineering teams. Based in Dubai and educated at UIUC, he combines hands-on product development with early-stage fundraising, having raised $2M+ from founders of GitHub, Pitch, Netlify, Framer, Postman and others. He co-founded BuilderGroop and contributes to open-source tooling—most notably improving Fleet, a high-performance Rust build tool, by optimizing init flows, adding installers and robust CLI commands. His background spans performance engineering, machine learning, and software roles at LambdaTest, Mad Street Den and startups, giving him a practical systems-first approach to product problems. Comfortable moving between code, ops and investor conversations, he brings a founder’s instinct for shipping fast while keeping developer ergonomics front and center. An underrated strength is his ability to translate low-level tooling improvements into measurable team productivity gains.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignA Level, A Level at GEMS Education
Github Skills (18)
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command-line-interface10
devtools10
command-line10
build-tools10
rust10
cli10
build-time9
buildx9
build-engine9
installers9
install-script9
build29
script9
utility8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dimensionhq/fleet
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
🚀 The blazing fast build tool for Rust.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 59 commits, 5 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Tejas primarily focused on enhancing the build process and tooling for a Rust project, Fleet, as indicated by the code changes. Their contributions involved optimizing the `init` command for faster execution. They also added error handling, installer scripts, and a "configure" command, alongside renaming the project from "turbo" to "fleet". These changes spanned multiple files and touched upon build configuration, command-line interface, and general project setup, indicative of a focus on overall project functionality.
blazingproductivityrustblazing-fastbuild-tool
dimensionhq/electric
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
A fast, futuristic package manager for Windows.
Contributions:3 releases, 461 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 11 months
package-managerwindowswindows-10futuristic
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