Ananthanarayanan Ramachandran

Engineering Manager, Technical writer and speaker with 10 years of experience in scaling up people, products, processes and services - technology at the heart of it. Led & delivered numerous distributed systems & architecture serving millions of people all over the world. Collaborated with cross functional stakeholders in defining & attaining quarterly OKRs and roadmaps by keeping the team motivated and focused towards the goals. Scaled up people by mentoring, collaboration, code reviews, 1-1s, performance review and mapping out personal growth plans to enable them to become better software engineers. Established engineering culture and practices where individuals and teams grow in a fostering environment.

Leading 2 happy & productive Engineering teams (A feature squad and A platform squad) in implementing and delivering product features and technical projects in a timely manner with good quality.

Projects highlights
- Lead building brand new user health progress feature from ideation, UI design, architectural design, implementation and release
- Building scalable services & features that process 10 million tracker activity updates per day
- Revamped discover screen to boost content relevance by increasing the sessions opened in the Discover Screen by 30%
- Building monitoring capabilities around user activity to reduce the mean time to acknowledge incidents less than 2 hours

People highlights
- Conducting regular check-ins with my team through 1-1s to share and ask for feedback
- Tailoring out personal growth plans for my Engineers to achieve their professional goals and grow to the next level
- Coaching & Mentoring Engineers to enable them to build world class software products and services
- Carrying out fair performance reviews every 6 months sharing substantial feedback to let them become better software engineers
- Achieved people survey satisfaction of 83%

Process highlights
- Along with other Leads and Engineers redefined QA process
- Set up tech grooming, weekly operational review, postmortem processes to promote technical discussions among Engineers
- Lead defining engineering delivery metrics (DORA), monitor and continuously improve our software engineering processes

Organization highlights
- Part of the leadership team that defined the organization's goals & strategy for 2022
- Set up Quarterly Tech Roadmaps by defining Product & Tech OKRs, tracked, communicated and delivered on a timely basis
- Evangelize defining 6 core values for our Engineering team and establishing a fostering engineering culture
- Brought an organizational change by driving squad split up initiative and ensured smoother transformation

Bachelor of Engineering