Saurabh Ariyan

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 1 mo experience

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Key Highlights

Led engineering teams from early-stage to scale.
Expertise in building AI-native engineering organizations.
Strong background in cloud computing and microservices.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused engineering leader with expertise in cloud-native applications and team scaling.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipProject ManagementMicroservices

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)ClojureCloud ComputingCommunicationDjangoEarly-Stage StartupsGolangJavaScriptKubernetesLeadershipLinuxMongoDBNode.jsPeople ManagementPostgreSQL

About

- Enjoys to build AI-native engineering orgs that ship enterprise-grade platforms with startup velocity. - Been the first engineer, scaled the team to 12 folks : wrote the v1 almost alone, and scaled team after customers. - Have scaled teams from early stage to 22 folks, have managed design, product, infra, security and QA, apart from backend and frontend teams. - Have managed appraisals, budgets, presented to the board. - Have lead SOC 2 Type 2 and GovCloud, worked on ISO 27001 and 9001. - Currently: Director of Engineering & CISO, Unifize; M.Tech (IIT Jodhpur) in progress; writing on applying LLMs in mission-driven systems. - Stack: Python/Javascript/Go; AWS/Azure/Kubernetes/Postgres; distributed systems and data-intensive apps.

Experience

Unifize

Director of Engineering

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Early-Stage StartupsPython (Programming Language)ClojurePostgreSQLPeople ManagementProject Management+3

Kodo

Technical Lead

Oct 2023 – Jul 2024 · 9 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Early-Stage Startups

Deepsource

Engineering Manager

Dec 2022 – Sep 2023 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Leading the Product Engineering Team, prioritising the day to day and strategic tasks for the team, navigating the tech debt. Responsible for the team OKRs, appraisals, career growth of the team. Managing stakeholder expectations. Involved in Tech Hiring.

GolangTechnical LeadershipCommunicationPeople ManagementMicroservicesEarly-Stage Startups+4

Redhunt labs

3 roles

Head Of Engineering

Aug 2021 – Jun 2022 · 10 mos

Test CasesTeam LeadershipGolangDjangoTechnical LeadershipCommunication+11

Platform Lead

Promoted

May 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

Test CasesGolangDjangoTechnical LeadershipCommunicationPeople Management+9

Founding Engineer

May 2019 – May 2020 · 1 yr

Test CasesDjangoKubernetesTechnical LeadershipCommunicationMicroservices+6

Paisool (infinity+beyond technology pvt ltd)

Software Engineer

Mar 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Includes working on React Native a lot, delivered around 5 mobile apps and 2 web apps over 8 months.
More of a Data Plumber than Data Scientist. Cleaning Data to make a presentable report for the ops teams. Skilled in pandas and numpy, prefers jupyter lab despite knowing vscode is better!

Test CasesTechnical LeadershipEarly-Stage StartupsPython (Programming Language)LeadershipTeamwork+1

Vidhi centre for legal policy

Software Development Consultant

Sep 2017 – Mar 2018 · 6 mos · New Delhi Area, India

involved with building nyaaya.in : Keystone js cms backend and react front end.
also the only engineer involved in Data Protection Bill sub committee at the organization.

Indiqus technologies

Software Developer

Jul 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · New Delhi Area, India

My job responsibility is to develop and maintain backend application on Linux using Nodejs. Primarily this translates to working on workflow design and a REST based internal API . I spend most of my time using MEAN stack with Redis as a cache and RabbitMQ.
MAJOR LEARNING : how to live with poorly documented external API and use them in your own code!

Test CasesEarly-Stage StartupsTeamworkCloud Computing