Kiran Hari Narayanan

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Director of Engineering, Goldman Sachs - Backstage · observability · Bazel

Goldman Sachs
Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
15+ years experience
Manipal Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Tamil
Open to work
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Overview

Based in Chennai. I lead platform engineering at Goldman Sachs. Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 15 a week to 3. Built the experimentation framework 24 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: KPMG and Nykaa. Most at home with observability and CI/CD. I teach a weekend class on observability.

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Skills
CI/CDBackstageobservabilityBazel
Open to workLooking for a role
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Platform Engineer roles in robotics - Chennai or remote

Target roles
Platform Engineer
Level
Mid
Industries
Consumer apps, Climate tech
Work mode
Remote
Available
90 days notice
Work authorization
Indian citizen
What I'm looking for
A team that ships weekly and owns developer platform end to end.
Not interested in
Crypto

19 years in platform engineering. Strongest at observability and CI/CD. Available immediately.

Chennai, Indiaci/cdobservabilitybazel
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Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    May 2023 - Present
    Goldman Sachs · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 35 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Grew the developer platform team from 6 to 37 engineers.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Dec 2019 - May 2023
    KPMG · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Sit on 4 boards.
    • Led or co-led 36 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later.
  3. Staff Platform Engineer
    Jan 2016 - Aug 2019
    Nykaa · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 38% in two quarters.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Jan 2013 - Jan 2016
    Infosys · 3 yr · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Moved 72% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Platform Engineer
    Oct 2011 - Jan 2013
    Philips · 1 yr 3 mo · Contract · Chennai, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 747ms to 165ms.
    • Moved 91% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

Projects

Open-source observability toolkit
2026

A small library for platform engineering that 766 developers star on GitHub.

Side project: a commute planner
2024

Built with Bazel and observability. 3472 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. Manipal Institute of Technology
    B.Tech, Information Technology
    2002 - 2006

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