Elaine Fonseca

Overview

Currently at Lakemont Health, where I lead real-time systems with a team of 40. Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 40% in two quarters. Most at home with Go and low-latency systems.

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Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Aug 2025 - Present
   Lakemont Health · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 31 minutes to under 5.
   • Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 18% in two quarters.
2. Senior Software Engineer

   Jan 2024 - Aug 2025
   Swiggy · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 28 a week to 2.
3. Software Engineer

   May 2020 - Jan 2024
   Postman · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Moved 66% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 779ms to 176ms.
4. Software Engineer

   Jan 2017 - Mar 2020
   Hindustan Unilever · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 29 a week to 3.
5. Software Engineer

   Oct 2015 - Jan 2017
   Myntra · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 775ms to 50ms.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 41 minutes to under 3.

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Education

1. IIM Bangalore

   MBA, Business Administration
   2017 - 2019
2. IIT Guwahati

   B.Tech, Electronics and Communication
   2011 - 2015