Ershad Kunnakkadan
Chief Executive Officer at Gumroad
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolErshad Kunnakkadan is a seasoned software leader with 16 years of experience building and scaling web platforms, now serving as CEO of Gumroad in New York. He rose through engineering ranks at Gumroad from senior staff to executive leadership, combining hands-on Ruby/Rails and full-stack expertise with product and operational responsibilities. Prior to Gumroad he drove architecture and DevOps work at BigBinary and Bang the Table, working across cloud infrastructure, containerization, and data migrations. He is pragmatic about solving customer-facing problems with reliable systems, shipping end-to-end features that span frontend, backend, and infrastructure. Known for blending developer empathy with strategic decision-making, he brings a developer-first perspective to executive leadership. Outside the C-suite, he remains an active technologist who enjoys diving into code to unblock teams and validate technical direction.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Bharathiar University
English, Malayalam, Hindi
Github Skills (59)
rails10
ruby10
shortest10
boilerplate10
clerk10
testing9
terraform9
terraform-provider9
stripe9
mvc9
aws9
ugc9
gitlab9
html9
playwright8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
smc/grandham
Jun 2013 - Feb 2018
Bibliography Data project
Contributions:329 commits, 6 PRs, 24 pushes in 4 years 9 months
bibliographymalayalamruby
talentspace/talentspace.in
Sep 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:106 commits, 108 pushes, 10 branches in 11 months
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