Ajith Harish Ramaswamy

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Engineering Manager at Kestrel Finance · low-latency systems, Elixir

Kestrel Finance
Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
13+ years experience
IIM Ahmedabad
English, Hindi, Tamil
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Overview

Currently at Kestrel Finance, where I lead real-time systems with a team of 29. Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 17 a week to 1. Wrote the Elixir service that now handles 58 million requests a day. Before that: EY and InMobi. Most at home with low-latency systems and Elixir.

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Skills
ElixirErlang/OTPlow-latency systemsGo
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a go-to-market co-founder for cash-flow forecasting for property managers

The idea
Cash-flow forecasting for property managers
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
8 years in real-time systems
Looking for
Product-minded engineer
Commitment
Full-time now
Location
Chennai or remote

I bring 13 years of real-time systems (currently Kestrel Finance). Ideally you've shipped B2B software. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

Chennai, India · remote OKlow-latency systemselixirgo
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Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Nov 2022 - Present
    Kestrel Finance · 3 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 33 a week to 3.
    • Grew the real-time team from 5 to 33 engineers.
  2. Senior Software Engineer
    Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
    EY · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 28% in two quarters.
    • Built the experimentation framework 24 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  3. Software Engineer
    Feb 2017 - Sep 2020
    InMobi · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Moved 81% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Software Engineer
    Dec 2015 - Feb 2017
    Asian Paints · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Shipped 10 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
    • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 593ms to 57ms.
  5. Software Engineer
    Oct 2013 - Dec 2015
    PhonePe · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 24 a week to 2.
    • Wrote the Go service that now handles 12 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. IIM Ahmedabad
    MBA, Business Administration
    2014 - 2016
  2. IIT Roorkee
    B.Tech, Electronics and Communication
    2008 - 2012

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