Aishu Shalini Vaidyanathan

Overview

21 years in software engineering, the last 2 at Ivory Pay, where I lead the developer platform team. Grew the developer platform team from 4 to 38 engineers. Before that: Asian Paints and Philips. Most at home with Go and Bazel. Collector of fountain pens.

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Experience

1. CTO

   Feb 2025 - Present
   Ivory Pay · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 34 minutes to under 6.
   • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 38 a week to 3.
   • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
2. Senior Platform Engineer

   Aug 2021 - Feb 2025
   Asian Paints · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 13 a week to 3.
3. Engineering Manager

   May 2019 - Aug 2021
   Philips · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 35 a week to 1.
   • Shipped 25 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.
4. Senior Engineering Manager

   Feb 2016 - May 2019
   Nykaa · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Shipped 14 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.
5. Senior Engineering Manager

   Oct 2014 - Jan 2016
   Axis Bank · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Wrote the Kubernetes service that now handles 20 million requests a day.
   • Mentored 11 engineers through their first promotion.

No references yet.

Education

1. IIT Roorkee

   B.Tech, Electronics and Communication
   2000 - 2004