Sandeep Ravichandran

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Built multiple engineering teams from scratch.
  • Helped over 40 startups navigate technical challenges.
  • Led significant operational efficiency improvements.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Electric Mobility expert with strong engineering management skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementProduct ManagementInfrastructure Management

Other Skills

AJAXAmazon Web Services (AWS)CCSSCoffeeScriptCouchDBGitHAMLHTMLJSONJavaScriptLinuxMongoDBMySQLObjective-C

About

I help startups make decisions about Technology, Leadership & Hiring. Over the last decade, I cofounded a company and have built multiple engineering teams from scratch. I have helped over 40 startups take their product to customers, navigate technical challenges, prioritise velocity and product-market fit. How can I help? If you are an Engineer or a Manager who needs help with: - Career growth - Interviews - Moving to a Leadership role - Building a product Follow me for posts on the above topics. Feel free to reach out to me over DM.

Experience

Atlassian

Senior Engineering Manager

Jul 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Appsmith

Engineering Leader

Jun 2023Mar 2024 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Thoughtspot

Engineering Leader

Sep 2022May 2023 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • ThoughtSpot is the AI-Powered Analytics company.
  • Led 3 different teams of a total of 23 Engineers including Leads, Engineers in the Search and Data Modelling orgs.
  • Improved Operational efciency by increasing bug burndown rate by 3x, reducing incoming bugs rate by 50% and reducing CFDs by 40%
  • Set roadmap for all teams, working with Product Leads
  • Worked with external companies to bring in tools to migrate customers from competitors to Thoughtspot.
  • Setup a new pod in the Search org and grew the team to 7 Engineers.

Frolick, inc.

VP of Engineering

Feb 2022Sep 2022 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • The world's most affordable food delivery platform - great food, no fees, no minimums
  • Joined Frolick as the first Engineering hire to build the team group up.
  • Led the growth of the team to ~15 engineers balancing full time and contractors.
  • Build the entire product ground up and launched iOS & Android apps along with backend apps for picking & packing, logistics.
  • Closely worked with product and built a data driven and grew the product to delivering more than 1000 orders per month
  • Delivered Rapid iterations resulting in 20% WoW growth in orders.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Engineering ManagementProduct Management

Amazon

Software Development Manager III

Nov 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Mahindra electric mobility limited

Head of Engineering, DGM - Mobility Solutions

Mar 2019Oct 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Mahindra Electric Mobility is the pioneer of electric vehicle technology in India. NEMO is a cloud based platform that enables a new generation of shared, connected & electric services that help to revolutionize urban mobility.
  • Rearchitected & migrated entire infrastructure to AWS Cloud within 6 weeks with 0% downtime.
  • Led a cross skilled team including Architects, Engineers, Designers & Contractors.
  • Reduced infrastructure costs by 30% while increasing service uptime from 98% to 99.8%.
  • Built & drove usage of Corporate Mobility Platform within Mahindra Electric for corporate employees.
  • Built an in-house data analytics platform using opensouce as a starting point.
  • Fostered a culture of close interaction with customers to understand
  • requirements and gather feedback.
  • Drove multiple internal applications to simplify information transfer
  • between cross functional teams.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Flock (helloflock.com)

Application Architect

Nov 2017Jan 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Led the development of the iOS & Android apps & shipped to production within 6 weeks.
  • Improved the performance of the APIs & the websites by over 50%.
  • Moved the frontend architecture from Backbone.js to Vue.js resulting in 40% performance improvement and 60% faster time in implementing features.
  • Responsible for improving & setting engineering practices across the organization.
  • Architected & Implemented various new features on the Flock platform.

Cognitiveclouds

Co-Founder & Director of Engineering

Oct 2012Nov 2017 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Head of the Engineering team. Built & led the engineering team since it's inception and was responsible for driving product delivery.
  • Built and led the Engineering team since it's inception.
  • Delivered projects in diverse environments to the tune of millions of dollars.
  • Managed a team of 25+ engineers across different platforms.
  • Established process in the organization for project delivery, hiring and engineering practices.
  • Established a growth path of employees in my team.
  • Helped build the team to 60+ employees over 5 years.
  • Responsible for translating business requirements to user stories across various projects and prioritizing them.

Sourcebits llc

2 roles

Technical Lead

Promoted

Oct 2010Oct 2012 · 2 yrs

  • Project Lead, Scaling, Mentoring, Code Reviews, Best Practices, Client Interaction, Project Management, CI

Software Engineer

Oct 2010Jun 2011 · 8 mos

  • RoR Developer

True sparrow systems

Software Engineer

Oct 2009Oct 2010 · 1 yr · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

M.Sc(Tech) — Information Systems

Jan 2005Jan 2009

Birla High School

Jan 2000Jan 2005

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