Deepa Meera Ranganathan

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Senior Engineering Manager at BrowserStack | ex-Groww

BrowserStack
Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
12+ years experience
BITS Pilani
English, Hindi, Tamil
Open to work
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Overview

18 years in software engineering, the last 1 at BrowserStack, where I lead the developer platform team. Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 27% in two quarters. Before that: Groww and Airtel. Big believer in written communication.

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Skills
BazelCI/CDKubernetesobservability
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Open to Platform Engineer roles at growth-stage public sector tech companies

Target roles
Platform Engineer
Level
Mid
Industries
Climate tech, Fintech
Work mode
On-site
Available
From next quarter
Work authorization
Indian citizen, open to relocating
What I'm looking for
Scope to lead platform engineering work, with a manager who gives direct feedback.
Not interested in
Night shifts

18 years in platform engineering. Strongest at CI/CD and Bazel. Available from next month.

Chennai, Indiaci/cdkubernetesbazel
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Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jan 2026 - Present
    BrowserStack · 9 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Led the migration of 22 services to CI/CD.
    • Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Shipped 13 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.
  2. Staff Platform Engineer
    Aug 2022 - Jan 2026
    Groww · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Shipped 18 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.
  3. Platform Engineer
    Jun 2019 - Aug 2022
    Airtel · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 780ms to 145ms.
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 36% in two quarters.
  4. Staff Platform Engineer
    Mar 2018 - Jun 2019
    MakeMyTrip · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Wrote the Bazel service that now handles 13 million requests a day.
    • Grew the developer platform team from 3 to 22 engineers.
  5. Senior Platform Engineer
    Oct 2014 - Dec 2017
    Asian Paints · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 18 product teams use to ship changes safely.

Projects

Side project: a recipe search engine
2025

Built with CI/CD and Kubernetes. 3576 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. BITS Pilani
    B.E., Electrical Engineering
    2003 - 2007

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