Srinivasan Subramanian

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Built a high-performing engineering team from 2 to 66 engineers.
Achieved $1.4M in new business through strategic leadership.
Maintained 95%+ employee satisfaction ratings over five years.

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

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementPlatform DevelopmentOperational ExcellenceQuality AssuranceQuality EngineeringSoftware Development

Other Skills

CassandraWeb TechnologiesSolutions EngineeringCoachingPresentation SkillsCustomer InteractionMentoringHybrid CloudMicrosoft 365KubernetesResource AllocationAnalyticsComplex SystemsCode ReviewWeb Applications

About

A seasoned technical leader with 17+ years of experience, of which 7+ years in leadership roles. Expertise in quality delivery of Enterprise Datacenter solutions ranging from Hybrid Multi-cloud to DR of infra & control planes to LCM of apps & infra. Adept at team leadership, Org Structuring, Financial & Stakeholder management Passionate about building & transforming teams with a strong focus on Operational efficiency, & timely delivery. Strong technical foundation with both Masters (MS in Software Systems from BITS, Pilani) and Bachelors (B.Tech in IT from Madras Institute of Technology) in Computer Science discipline. The Executive General Management Programme from IIM, Bangalore, has helped me develop a business perspective to the technical work.

Experience

18 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

Average Tenure

8 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Nutanix

4 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

Built an Org of 66 engineers, ground up, starting with just 2 contractors in 2017
Lead this team with the help of 2 Managers and a Senior manager
Own/Lead end to end delivery of features & Sustenance of Prism Central (PC), API Infra, Microservices Platform, IAM, PC Diagnostics & Engineering Productivity Tools
Communicate & Collaborate with cross teams (Cloud Clusters, Security Dashboard, AI Ops, Nutanix Central) to provide PC platform support for their features
Brought in new business, worth $1.4M (4 new teams) to the BU, since 2021
Manage an overall Org budget of $2.6M
Lowest attrition rates in the BU (worst 5%, Best 0%), by establishing an effective Org Structure, building trust & nurturing pay-for-performance work culture
Led through 2 major architectural changes of PC
Upheld team’s enthusiasm despite 3 BIG org changes in 5 years
Reclaimed $220k / year in OpEx by designing & developing Eng-Prod Tools
Saved $1.2M in CapEx (Hardware), through iterative runtime optimisations
Engaged in 80+ ONCALLs and provided customer relief
Have resolved multiple personality & priority conflicts to deliver EW features
Efficiently used left-over PO budgets to complete 5 Tech Debt projects
5 year streak of 95%+ scores in Employees rating of Managers

Platform DevelopmentCassandraWeb TechnologiesSolutions EngineeringCoachingPresentation Skills+51

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2021 – Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Platform DevelopmentCassandraWeb TechnologiesSolutions EngineeringCoachingPresentation Skills+43

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jul 2018 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Platform DevelopmentCassandraWeb TechnologiesCoachingCustomer InteractionObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)+39

Senior Member Of Technical Staff (Technical Lead)

Aug 2017 – Jul 2018 · 11 mos

CassandraWeb TechnologiesCustomer InteractionObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Problem SolvingKubernetes+31

Oracle india pvt. ltd

Senior MTS

Mar 2015 – Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

Global owner for delivering 20 IaaS images for Internal & External customers
Deliver python api modules, framework features & containerised test runner
Analyse production incidents, RCA, provide relief, test, deliver & fill test gaps
Hire, mentor & guide Juniors
Proposed and implemented Shift left strategy for pipeline testing

Quality SystemObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Problem SolvingCode ReviewCoding ExperienceQuality Engineering+8