Saran or Saravanan Thiyagarajan

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years of experience in tech leadership.
  • Expert in building scalable and resilient systems.
  • Strong advocate for sustainable technology initiatives.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused technical leader with expertise in DevOps and observability.

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Skills

Core Skills

ObservabilityTechnical LeadershipDevopsTechnical Project Leadership

Other Skills

AJAXAgile MethodologiesApacheCCICVSClearCaseCloud ComputingDatabasesDesign PatternsDynatraceEclipseErlangGitHadoop

About

With 20+ years in tech, I lead teams that build scalable, resilient systems using DevOps, observability, AIOps, and cloud platforms. At SAP Ariba, I’ve driven platform reliability, team empowerment, and automation at global scale. Outside of my corporate work, I’ve co-founded Orgbasket, building and scaling an early e-commerce platform for organic products in India—before online retail was mainstream. I also founded WakeourLake, using technology to support water conservation and soil restoration. Currently, I serve as an advisor to Nansei Restoration, contributing to sustainable agriculture and environmental initiatives through tech-driven strategies and community engagement. I’m actively pursuing technical leadership roles where I can architect resilient systems, scale high-impact teams, and align platform thinking with purpose-driven engineering.

Experience

21 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Nansei restoration

Advisor

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

  • Contributed strategic guidance on eco-restoration, water conservation,organic agriculture, and sustainable farming techniques using data-driven tools and global collaboration.
Technical Project LeadershipPeople Management

Sap

2 roles

Principal Engineering Manager - Observability

Jun 2020Present · 6 yrs · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Building highly performed and highly engaging team to enhance and support on-going projects. Worked across multiple Geo-locations/Teams ,Had strong collaboration to solve many business critical needs.
  • Developing Health Dashboards/Alerts in Splunk for products.This is a single pane of glass to visualize how product is performing and alert if there is a criticality.
  • Working on Security Solutions initiative [ Crown-Jewel ]
ObservabilityMonitoring DevelopmentDynatraceSplunkHands-on Technical LeadershipTeam Building+1

Devops Expert

Jul 2014Jun 2020 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Built highly performed and highly engaging team to enhance and support on-going projects.
  • Worked across multiple Geo-locations/Teams ,Had strong collaboration to solve many business critical needs.
  • Parallelly managed three projects from requirement gathering to Deployment
  • Designed and Developed monitoring applications across multiple DC in SAP
  • Developed monitoring tools and took responsibility of complete monitoring applications [ Saved 15% SRE Efforts]
  • Developed self service account automation tool [ Saved 2 Person manual effort ]
  • Developed Deployment pipeline end-to-end [ Parsing deployment jira ticket till post deployment validations ] [ Saved 3 hours/week of DRE time ]
  • Enhanced and took responsibility of deployment tools
DevOpsJenkinsCIObservabilityTeam BuildingTechnical Project Leadership

Wake our lake

Founder

Feb 2017May 2020 · 3 yrs 3 mos · India

  • Initiated wakeourlake.org during my traffic times and weekends to solve water crisis problems in villages. Developed a platform to connect Activist , Volunteers and Donors to revive lake from anywhere.
  • For futher details,please check https://wakeourlake.org/ or google wakeourlake
  • From 2009,founded this NGO(Bhavishya) [ https://bhavishyango.wordpress.com/ ] to improve education in rural areas.
  • Vision : Teach a kid to fish rather giving food for a day.
  • This includes conducting free opensource training for unemployed,teaching unprivileged school kids on weekend,improving martial art ( silambattam.org),etc

Orgbasket

Co-Founder

Sep 2013Jul 2014 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

  • OrgBasket is a ecommerce platform to sell all organic products by directly procuring from certified organic farmers.
  • Role includes managing team,identifying right tools to solve operational gaps.

Yahoo!

Tech Lead

Aug 2011Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

  • ● Developed automation tools and dashboard to support continuous Deployment
  • [Saves 50% of Release Engineers time and quick results of products].
  • ● Developed tools to help Service Engineers for health check, bootstrap, reset active, in colo/cross colo failover for Content Agility [saves 3 min of SE time during failover].
  • ● Developed UI to view the task workflow execution, Data flow, Chimp Definitions, Request Response using Perl (CGI), YUI and JS [saves 5 min of customer time].
  • ● Developed tools for monitoring the yahoo search test application which saves a resource cost [5% of team budget]
  • ● Developed automated notifications for build failures like SMS, auto IM, auto bug filing which saves time and finding integration issues if any
  • ● Helping manager with scheduled reports like consecutive build failures, bugs missing test cases, etc.

Xerox

2 roles

Systems Development Senior Specialist

Jul 2010Aug 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • ● Developed web based tool (CGI and PHP) for adding the network devices in different monitoring tools which saves 90% manual time
  • ● Developed a dashboard for network device status (CGI and MySQL) in different tools which helps employees to monitor and manager to bill the client based on the tier level which saves 50% manual time

Automation Specialist

Apr 2008May 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • ● Automated (Perl, iconclude, MySQL, windows) resolving of frequently occurred remedy tickets from BMC patrol (Server Monitoring tool) which saves 30% of team effort.

Decathlon

Sports Coach

Mar 2010Mar 2013 · 3 yrs

  • Coaching various sports like badminton,soccer,running,etc and conducting sports competitions at weekends

Netapp

Senior Member Technical Staff

Oct 2006Mar 2008 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • ● Worked on Perl parsers that process the autosupport messages [ filer status sent from filer back to NetApp ] and loads into data warehouse which improves stability.
  • ● Introduced glimpse search tool for searching autosupport messages in Unix flat file system which reduces 40% latency time
  • ● Worked on Parsers and daemons which makes VTL autosupport compatible with current asup system

Scope international [ standard chartered bank ]

Software Developer

Dec 2004Oct 2006 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • ● Developed a Clearcase GUI wrapper [Perl,tk,msql] which resembles like a Clearcase LT which reduces cc licensing cost
  • ● Involved in bank data migration from legacy systems [AS400] to globus [Oracle] with 100% accuracy

Isource ltd

Project Trainee

Jan 2004Dec 2004 · 11 mos

  • Worked as a Project Trainee in writing perl applications during my project Internship
  • Worked as a Programmer in Developing Perl applications for Data Extraction and automation for Search Engine Optimization

Education

University of Madras

B.E — Computer Science

Jan 2000Jan 2004

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