Haritha Vaishnavi Achar

Overview

I've spent 16 years on real-time systems - first at Accenture, now at Nectar Labs. Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion. Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 572ms to 154ms. Before that: PhonePe and PwC. Most at home with Erlang/OTP and Elixir.

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Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Feb 2023 - Present
   Nectar Labs · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 16 minutes to under 3.
   • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 759ms to 160ms.
   • Built the experimentation framework 9 product teams use to ship changes safely.
2. Staff Software Engineer

   Aug 2019 - Feb 2023
   PhonePe · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Grew the real-time team from 3 to 37 engineers.
   • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 471ms to 151ms.
3. Software Engineer

   Sep 2016 - Aug 2019
   PwC · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Moved 69% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
4. Software Engineer

   Jul 2014 - Sep 2016
   Ola · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 434ms to 164ms.
5. Software Engineer

   Dec 2011 - Jul 2014
   Accenture · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Shipped 28 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.

Projects

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Education

1. University of Delhi

   B.Com, Computer Engineering
   2006 - 2010