Lakshmi Rajani Chandrasekhar

Overview

I invest in developer infrastructure at Driftwood Partners, usually at pre-seed and seed. Previously an operator for 5 years before investing.

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Experience

1. Principal

   Aug 2024 - Present
   Driftwood Partners · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Coimbatore, India
   • Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.
   • Sit on 5 boards.
2. Engineering Manager

   Aug 2022 - Aug 2024
   MakeMyTrip · 2 yr · Full-time · Coimbatore, India
   • Led the migration of 16 services to developer tools.
   • Built the experimentation framework 13 product teams use to ship changes safely.
3. Director of Engineering

   Mar 2021 - May 2022
   Swiggy · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Coimbatore, India
   • Moved 74% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
4. Principal Engineer

   Oct 2019 - Mar 2021
   InMobi · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Coimbatore, India
   • Led or co-led 14 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
5. Senior Engineering Manager

   Oct 2017 - Oct 2019
   HDFC Bank · 2 yr · Full-time · Coimbatore, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 30 minutes to under 3.
   • Grew the ML platform team from 3 to 14 engineers.

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Education

1. Indian Statistical Institute

   M.Stat, Business Administration
   2019 - 2021
2. IIT Kanpur

   B.Tech, Business Administration
   2012 - 2016