Aravind Narayanan

Overview

Based in Kolkata. I lead growth engineering at Glade Works. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 20 minutes to under 6. Before that: Capgemini and SAP. Most at home with PostgreSQL and TypeScript. Swimming before work keeps me sane.

Best reached early in the week

Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Feb 2026 - Present
   Glade Works · 8 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
   • Cut p99 latency on the growth services from 551ms to 174ms.
   • Built the experimentation framework 29 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
2. Director of Engineering

   Oct 2024 - Feb 2026
   Capgemini · 1 yr 4 mo · Contract · Kolkata, India
   • Shipped 25 launches on the growth team without a rollback.
   • Moved 87% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Senior Engineering Manager

   Jul 2022 - Oct 2024
   SAP · 2 yr 3 mo · Contract · Kolkata, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on growth by 23% in two quarters.
4. Senior Full-Stack Engineer

   Sep 2020 - Jul 2022
   BrowserStack · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
   • Built the experimentation framework 22 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 41 minutes to under 4.
5. Engineering Manager

   Dec 2017 - Sep 2020
   Wipro · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
   • Shipped 21 launches on the growth team without a rollback.

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Education

1. Shri Ram College of Commerce

   B.Com, Mathematics
   2004 - 2008