Vinay Pulim
Co-Founder & CTO CPO at Canopy
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolVinay Pulim is a seasoned founder and technical leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling products across healthcare and consumer internet companies, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO/CPO of Canopy in New York. He combines deep engineering chops—with notable open-source contributions to high-impact projects like node-soap, ethereumjs, and the widely used request library—with product leadership that has deployed safety technology protecting over 200,000 healthcare workers. His background includes founding startups acquired by major companies (Yahoo!, eBay, Playlist.com, Motorola) and senior engineering leadership at Yahoo!, demonstrating an ability to turn early ideas into acquisition-ready businesses and large-scale operational systems. Trained at MIT through BS/MS and PhD work in computer science and machine learning, he pairs rigorous technical grounding with pragmatic product focus and security-minded engineering. An under-the-radar strength is his history of improving interoperability and protocol-level robustness (WS-Security, geth DB compatibility, HTTP cookie/auth handling), showing attention to both correctness and real-world integration challenges.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science (Machine Learning), Ph.D. Computer Science (Machine Learning) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
evm10
http10
soap10
ethereum10
xml10
nodejs10
cookie10
testing9
database-api9
wsdl9
typescript9
databases9
typescript-types9
blockchain9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vpulim/node-soap
Oct 2011 - Jun 2018
A SOAP client and server for node.js.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Vinay focused on enhancing the node-soap library's capabilities for handling SOAP messages. Their contributions involved implementing security features, such as handling security headers and removing restrictions in WS-Security. Furthermore, they added initial support for RPC binding and fixed input/output message naming and namespaces to improve the library's usability. The user also made some improvements to the WSDL processing by incorporating schema importing and handling of all element.
soap-servicenode-jsjavascriptnode-soapsoap-response
ethereumjs/ethereumjs-monorepo
Apr 2018 - May 2019
Monorepo for the Ethereum VM TypeScript Implementation
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:104 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Vinay implemented initial support for geth databases within the ethereumjs monorepo. This involved adding code to interact with and utilize geth-compatible database keys and related utility functions. The changes include modifications to index.js to support these database interactions. This suggests an effort to integrate or improve compatibility with the geth Ethereum client's database structure.
monorepoethereumjavascriptblockchainevm
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