Naveen Padmanabhan

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Senior Engineering Manager, Freshworks - Python · feature stores · PyTorch

Freshworks
Kochi, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
12+ years experience
University of Delhi
English, Hindi, Malayalam
Co-founderAdvising
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Overview

I lead ML infrastructure at Freshworks in Kochi. Wrote the PyTorch service that now handles 39 million requests a day. I write a small newsletter about ML infrastructure.

Good reasons to reach out
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Advice on ML infrastructure
  • Second opinions on Kubeflow decisions
  • Questions about ML infrastructure
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
Please don't message about
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Courses and coaching offers

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
feature storesRayKubeflowmodel servingPyTorchPython
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a technical co-founder for expense management for airlines

The idea
Expense management for airlines
Stage
Early revenue
I bring
7 years in ML infrastructure
Looking for
Commercial co-founder who has sold to enterprises
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
Kochi or remote

I bring 16 years of ML infrastructure (currently Freshworks). Ideally you've led a design team. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

Kochi, India · remote OKfeature storespythonmodel serving
Open
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for students choosing a first job: ML infrastructure and Ray

Topics
ML infrastructure, Kubeflow, Ray
Format
Async reviews
Terms
Open to discuss
Capacity
Two calls a month
Best for
First-time founders

16 years of ML infrastructure. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Kochi, India · remote OKpythonmodel servingfeature stores
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Nov 2024 - Present
    Freshworks · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the ML platform services from 345ms to 121ms.
    • Built the experimentation framework 28 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Senior ML Engineer
    Oct 2022 - Nov 2024
    LTIMindtree · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
    • Replaced 49 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  3. ML Engineer
    Nov 2020 - Oct 2022
    Kotak Mahindra Bank · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
    • Taught SQL to 130 non-analysts.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Jan 2018 - Nov 2020
    Google · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
    • Shipped 28 launches on the ML platform team without a rollback.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 18 minutes to under 5.
  5. Senior ML Engineer
    May 2014 - Jan 2018
    KPMG · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
    • Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 6.5%.

Projects

Open-source Python toolkit
2026

A small library for ML infrastructure that 698 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. University of Delhi
    B.Com, Computer Engineering
    2006 - 2010

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