Inderjit Sekhon

Overview

Currently at Granite Bio, where I work on API platforms. Grew the public API team from 3 to 21 engineers. Most at home with PostgreSQL and OpenAPI.

Replies on weekday evenings

Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Jul 2025 - Present
   Granite Bio · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Chandigarh, India
   • Backed 24 founders at pre-seed and seed.
   • Sit on 3 boards.
   • Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.
2. Staff Backend Engineer

   Sep 2021 - Jul 2025
   Tata Motors · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Chandigarh, India
   • Led the migration of 40 services to PostgreSQL.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 40 minutes to under 4.
3. Senior Engineering Manager

   Nov 2019 - Sep 2021
   Intuit · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Chandigarh, India
   • Shipped 23 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
   • Reduced cloud spend on public API by 43% in two quarters.
4. Senior Backend Engineer

   Jul 2017 - Nov 2019
   Ola · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chandigarh, India
   • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 311ms to 151ms.
5. Backend Engineer

   Jul 2015 - Mar 2017
   Mahindra Group · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Chandigarh, India
   • Moved 84% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 26 minutes to under 3.

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Education

1. BITS Pilani

   B.E., Computer Engineering
   2007 - 2011