Ravi Vivek Desai

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Managing Director at Indigo Bio · Healthcare strategy · operations, cloud strategy

Indigo Bio
Columbus, OH · ET (UTC-5)
12+ years experience
Duke University
English, French
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Overview

17 years in consulting, the last 1 at Indigo Bio, where I lead the healthcare team. Ran commercial diligence on 14 deals. Learning to sail.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Working sessions on operations
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  • Crypto token projects
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack
  • Requests to fix your code for free

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
operationspayer-providercloud strategy

Experience

  1. Managing Director
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Indigo Bio · 1 yr · Full-time · Columbus, OH
    • Moved 83% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Took crash-free sessions from 97.7% to 99.7%.
  2. Consultant
    Dec 2021 - Oct 2025
    Cloudflare · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Columbus, OH
    • Delivered 26 engagements across 5 countries.
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $178 million.
  3. Business Analyst
    Mar 2019 - Dec 2021
    Goldman Sachs · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Columbus, OH
    • Wrote the operations service that now handles 11 million requests a day.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 42 minutes to under 3.
  4. Senior Consultant
    Jul 2016 - Mar 2019
    PayPal · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Columbus, OH
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $132 million.
  5. Consultant
    Oct 2014 - Apr 2016
    Dell Technologies · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Columbus, OH
    • Delivered 27 engagements across 10 countries.

Projects

Write-up: iOS apps in practice
2026

A long-form guide to iOS apps for people starting out.

Conference talk: lessons from iOS
2025

What went wrong and what worked while scaling iOS apps.

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Education

  1. Duke University
    BS, Public Policy
    2004 - 2008

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