Deepa Meera Unnikrishnan

Overview

I lead search and ranking at Vista Pay in Hyderabad. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 34 minutes to under 3. Parent of two, so mostly sleep-deprived.

Answers in batches on Fridays

Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Nov 2025 - Present
   Vista Pay · 11 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 37 minutes to under 6.
   • Moved 63% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
2. Senior Engineering Manager

   Sep 2023 - Nov 2025
   Amazon · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
   • Wrote the Elasticsearch service that now handles 85 million requests a day.
   • Shipped 11 launches on the search team without a rollback.
3. Senior Software Engineer

   Oct 2020 - Sep 2023
   Deloitte · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
   • Moved 60% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion.
4. Staff Software Engineer

   Oct 2017 - Oct 2020
   Atlassian · 3 yr · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
   • Wrote the Elasticsearch service that now handles 25 million requests a day.
5. Senior Software Engineer

   Jan 2015 - Oct 2017
   Dream11 · 2 yr 9 mo · Contract · Hyderabad, India
   • Built the experimentation framework 34 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Grew the search team from 4 to 13 engineers.

Projects

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Education

1. Srishti Manipal Institute

   B.Des, Mathematics
   2004 - 2008