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