Sakthi Gurunathan

Director of Engineering

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India13 yrs 8 mos experience

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Key Highlights

12+ years leading global engineering teams
Expert in Cloud-based SaaS product delivery
Proven success in M&A integrations and Agile transformations

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS engineering leader with expertise in cloud solutions and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementTechnical LeadershipPeople ManagementAgile Project ManagementTeam ManagementRelease ManagementWebsocketSystem ArchitectureDistributed SystemsSoftware DesignFull-stack DevelopmentRuby On RailsSoftware DevelopmentJavascriptE-commerce

Other Skills

AI EngineeringAgile transformationsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsCloud-based SaaS productsCoachingContinuous innovationCustomer-centric featuresEvent PlanningJavaMentoringMentoring engineersMergers & Acquisitions (M&A)MySQLProduct Development

About

Results-driven Senior Engineering Manager (12+ yrs) experienced in leading global engineering teams across India and the US, delivering scalable Cloud-based SaaS products. Proven record of success in M&A integrations, leading Agile transformations, and launching customer-centric features. Passionate about mentoring engineers and fostering cultures of continuous innovation.

Experience

Chronus

6 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

Engineering ManagementTechnical LeadershipTechnology RoadmappingProject PlanningMergers & Acquisitions (M&A)Stakeholder Management+1

Engineering Manager

Jul 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

People ManagementAgile Project ManagementAnalytical SkillsSystem ArchitectureCoachingProduct Development

Engineering Lead

Jul 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

Manage highly performant and diversified engineering teams
Drove technical discussions with customers around HRIS, SSO, and Product functionalities.
Evaluated ongoing development efforts and devised strategies to control the inflow of repeated customer requests and reduced 240+ customer requests per year and saved 100+ developer man-days per year.
Drove learning club and organize organization-wide cultural initiatives like Conferences, Hackathon.

Team ManagementRelease ManagementTeam MentoringEvent Planning

Senior Software Engineer II

Jul 2019 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr

Triage incoming customer requests and drove technical discussions with customers around HRIS, SSO and Product functionalities.
Developed a highly scalable and efficient Real-time Messaging system via Web-sockets and increased engagement rate by 2.7x.

WebSocketAmazon Web Services (AWS)System ArchitectureMentoring

Senior Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2017 – Jul 2019 · 2 yrs

Developed a Replica Full Sandbox Creation system.
Developed a solution to migrate a live instance from a multi-tenant database in one region (US) to another region (EU) in Zero-Down-Time.

Distributed SystemsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Ruby on RailsMySQLSoftware Design

Software Development Engineer II

Oct 2015 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

Developed a Career Development Portal for physicians from the scratch.
Migrated search engine infrastructure from Sphinx to AWS Elasticsearch service and reduced CPU usage in app server and paved way for Horizontal scaling.
Upgraded core tech stacks like Ruby on Rails, Ruby, Elasticsearch to the latest version.

Ruby on RailsFull-Stack DevelopmentJavaScriptMySQL

Software ag

Software Development Engineer II

Mar 2015 – Oct 2015 · 7 mos · Chennai Area, India

Part of the CentraSite Product team of Software AG , a pioneer in SOA Governance.
Developed complex visualization charts using D3.js for the impact analysis feature of CentraSite .

JavaScriptJavad3.jsSoftware Development

Symantec

Associate Software Engineer

Aug 2012 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Chennai Area, India

Part of the Online Licensing Platform (OLP) Webservices team ,which develops SOAP and REST apis for the revenue generating Ecommerce Website of Symantec .
Contributed in developing SOAP and REST clients for the licensing platform Webservices.
Proposed, designed and developed an eclipse plugin application which aids code coverage analysis
Developed a tool for automatically monitoring Splunk logs and alert if there is a spike in
errors/exceptions in production.

JavaE-CommerceREST APIsSOAPMySQLSoftware Development