Siddarth Ramaswamy

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

Led teams from 3 to over 100 engineers.
Achieved significant cost reductions across multiple projects.
Pioneered initiatives that improved customer satisfaction dramatically.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS Product Engineering Leader with extensive experience in team scaling and cost optimisation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementEngineering Leadership

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAnalyticsBusiness DevelopmentBusiness ImpactBusiness ModelingCSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Change ManagementCost OptimisationCross-functional Team LeadershipData AnalysisData ProcessingData VisualizationDigital TransformationEmail Marketing

About

Product Engineering leader with 10+ years of experience in scaling multiple products and teams across Asia in the data & payments domain. A strong practitioner of agile/lean practices and a believer in first principles with data, engineering and user experience.

Experience

Viditec

Deputy CTO

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

Ownership & Leadership: Initiated three pivotal charters growing a team to 100+ from the initial 20+ member team, shaping Vedantu's engineering.
Cost Optimisation: Achieved a 50% reduction in outsourced development by breaking down a monolith to smaller systems to reduce risk and optimize cost
Operating Scale: Managed an infrastructure team handling 1 million daily requests. Spearheaded the migration of a legacy batch-based data platform to a near real time data processing and analytical solution.
Business Impact: In process of expanding single vertical to multiple verticals to bring more services to our customers
GenAI: Implemented various strategies that helped reduce operational cost

Agile MethodologiesProject ManagementCost OptimisationData ProcessingTeam ManagementProduct Management+1

Flex by finaxar

Director of Product & Engineering

May 2022 – Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Ownership & Leadership: Led strategic initiatives reducing the MTTR from 1 month to under one week increasing our CSAT to 75.5% from 56.8%
Team Growth: Expanded the product team to 15 from 2
Cost Optimisation: Realized a 35.2% reduction in operational & infrastructure costs by establishing a unit economic model partnering with Finance and Engineering teams
Business Impact: Built a Multi AZ, distributed ledger system helping

Agile MethodologiesProject ManagementCost OptimisationTeam GrowthBusiness ImpactProduct Management+1

Vedantu

Director of Product & Engineering

Sep 2021 – May 2022 · 8 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Ownership & Leadership: Initiated three pivotal charters growing a team to 30+ from the initial 10+ member team, shaping Vedantu's engineering.
Cost Optimisation: Achieved a 22% reduction in operational and infrastructure costs - migrating tech, implementing cold storage and others.
Operating Scale: Managed an infrastructure team handling 1 million daily requests. Spearheaded the migration of a legacy batch-based data platform to a near real time data processing and analytical solution.
Business Impact: Shifted focus to a growth-oriented data-driven strategy, aligning the entire C-suite, ultimately saving the organization $400k by avoiding an incorrect investment.

Agile MethodologiesCost OptimisationData ProcessingTeam ManagementProduct ManagementEngineering Leadership

Porter

Senior Product & Engineering Manager (Supply & Payments)

Dec 2020 – Sep 2021 · 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Ownership & Leadership: As the first engineering manager, established engineering management guidelines in collaboration with the CTO.
Team Growth: Efficiently scaled the team to 30 from 3 engineers, managing a high-volume workload of 50,000 daily completed orders.
Operational Scale: Led the supply team in doubling the order volume from 50,000 to 2X, by migrating from a legacy application to an event-driven system.

Agile MethodologiesTeam GrowthOperational ScaleProduct ManagementEngineering Leadership

Gojek

Product & Engineering Manager (Payments & Platforms)

May 2016 – Aug 2020 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore, India

Ownership & Leadership: Pioneered critical projects, elevating the company to 30 million from 10 million Daily Active Users (DAU).
Team Growth: Oversaw team growth to 40 from 3 engineers, supporting 30M monthly active users.
Cost Optimisation: Led various cross team migrations and optimisation, leading to an annual saving of $6 million. .
Business Impact: Introduced open-loop wallet, smoothly handling 10M DAU, and achieving a 50% cash-to-non-cash order ratio improvement with orders rising to 150k from 100k across all verticals.

Agile MethodologiesTeam GrowthCost OptimisationBusiness ImpactProduct ManagementEngineering Leadership

Meradata pvt. ltd.

Co-Founder & CTO

May 2012 – Jun 2015 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore, India

Ownership & Leadership: Steered the 0-1 GTM effort which helped generate annual revenue of $50k
Team Growth: Established a team from scratch, serving 50,000 customers with ~3,000 Monthly Active Users (MAU).

Ownership & LeadershipTeam GrowthEngineering Leadership