Ved P
Principal Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolVed P is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of hands-on and leadership experience building production web, mobile, and API products across startups and scale-ups. Currently leading AI-first R&D and product engineering at Reddit, he previously managed distributed developer platform teams and drove cross-platform, server-driven UI, ML-driven discovery, and serverless initiatives at Reddit and Shopify. A jack-of-all-trades engineer and manager, he blends full-stack coding, product ownership, and hiring/organizational leadership to ship complex features and platform tooling. He also co-founded and led technical teams in health and ed-tech startups, bringing entrepreneurial rigor to product-market fit and growth. Based in Toronto, Ved prefers to stay put in his current role—if you must reach out, he asks recruiters to preface messages with "strawberries."
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Specialization, Software Product Management, Specialization, Software Product Management at University of AlbertaBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Toronto Metropolitan University
Github Skills (49)
class-diagram9
sinatra9
relay9
graphql-ruby8
graphql8
database8
sql8
rails8
ruby8
cockroachdb7
state-machine7
mhealth7
sql-database7
distributed-database6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vpetkar/vpetkar.github.io
Feb 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
vpetkar/paintcraft
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:25 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
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