Vinay Ramkrishnan
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Yext
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVinay Ramkrishnan is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building mobile-first software and platform services, currently leading engineering efforts at Yext in the New York/Sunnyvale corridor. He cut his teeth developing Android across handsets, tablets, Google TV, Glass and Wear—having worked on the platform since Donut—and also brings legacy J2ME game and Nokia Asha expertise. A Carnegie Mellon MSIT (Mobility) alum and former Uber intern, he combines deep mobile systems knowledge with practical product delivery at scale. Vinay is known for translating ambiguous mobile requirements into robust, user-focused implementations and for mentoring teams through platform migrations and feature rollouts. His GitHub persona—coder, ideator, traveller—reflects a curiosity-driven approach to engineering and a habit of exploring solutions beyond conventional stacks. Based in Sunnyvale, he balances hands-on coding with technical leadership across distributed teams.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
ICSE Maths Physics Chemistry Computer Science, ICSE Maths Physics Chemistry Computer Science at Hiranandani Foundation School PowaiKendriya Vidyalaya SangathanB.E I.T, B.E I.T at University of MumbaiMaster's degree Information Technology - Mobility, Master's degree Information Technology - Mobility at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Hindi, Tamil
Github Skills (19)
android-client8
java8
redis7
java-client7
redis-client7
kotlin7
android6
redis-cluster6
redisearch6
code-generation5
generator5
annotation-processor4
code-generator4
data-connector3
react2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SafeSlingerProject/SafeSlinger-Android
Oct 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:32 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
kotlinjavaandroid-clientandroid
JW-Vinay/WearableSensing
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:6 PRs, 33 pushes, 3 branches in 26 days
sensorsfetch-datapost-itfetchinterfaces
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