Blessy Saldanha

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VP of Engineering · Platform engineering · Bazel

Crest Analytics
Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
12+ years experience
BITS Pilani
English, Hindi, Telugu
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Overview

VP of Engineering at Crest Analytics, focused on platform engineering. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 45 minutes to under 3. Before that: Morgan Stanley and Visa. Most at home with observability and Go. Kannada theatre fan.

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Skills
CI/CDobservabilityBazelBackstageKubernetesGo
HiringHiring for a role
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Building out developer platform at Crest Analytics: security engineers wanted in Hyderabad

Role
Security engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
₹18-90 LPA
Team
Developer platform, 9 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Production experience with Bazel Production experience with CI/CD Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp ₹29-72 LPA. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Hyderabad, India · remote OKkubernetesobservabilitygo
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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Mar 2024 - Present
    Crest Analytics · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Led the migration of 78 services to CI/CD.
    • Grew the developer platform team from 6 to 34 engineers.
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 45% in two quarters.
  2. Senior Platform Engineer
    Jun 2020 - Mar 2024
    Morgan Stanley · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 13 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Grew the developer platform team from 4 to 18 engineers.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Jul 2017 - Jun 2020
    Visa · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 22 a week to 2.
    • Led the migration of 52 services to Backstage.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Mar 2016 - Jul 2017
    Zerodha · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 25 minutes to under 5.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
    Zomato · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Shipped 22 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.

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Education

  1. BITS Pilani
    B.E., Computer Science
    2003 - 2007

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