Lokesh Dhruv Jindal

VP of Engineering at Orbit Labs · Platform engineering · Backstage, observability

Orbit Labs

Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

12+ years experience

ISB Hyderabad

English, Hindi, Tamil

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Overview

Based in Chennai. I lead platform engineering at Orbit Labs. Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 43% in two quarters. Built the experimentation framework 10 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: LTIMindtree and Nykaa. Most at home with Go and Backstage. Volunteer coding coach for school students.

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service meshBackstageBazelGoCI/CDobservability

Co-founderLooking for a co-founder

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Looking for a design-minded co-founder for clinical documentation for university students

The idea: Clinical documentation for university students
Stage: Idea
I bring: 14 years in platform engineering
Looking for: Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment: Full-time now
Location: Chennai or remote

I bring 17 years of platform engineering (currently Orbit Labs). Ideally you've run operations in the UK. Have a working prototype and design partners.

Chennai, Indiaci/cdgobazel

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Experience

VP of Engineering
Feb 2023 - Present
Orbit Labs · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
- Shipped 23 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.
- Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 608ms to 42ms.
Engineering Manager
Jun 2020 - Feb 2023
LTIMindtree · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
- Led the migration of 50 services to CI/CD.
Staff Platform Engineer
Aug 2017 - May 2020
Nykaa · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
- Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 624ms to 180ms.
- Wrote the observability service that now handles 6 million requests a day.
Engineering Manager
Dec 2015 - Aug 2017
Intel · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
- Built the experimentation framework 10 product teams use to ship changes safely.
- Moved 72% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Senior Platform Engineer
Oct 2014 - Dec 2015
Mphasis · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 15 minutes to under 6.
- Moved 94% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

ISB Hyderabad
MBA, Business Administration
2013 - 2015
BITS Pilani
B.E., Computer Engineering
2005 - 2009

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