Naveen Pradeep Unnikrishnan
SPlatform Engineer at Orchard Works · CI/CD, service mesh
- Orchard Works
- Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
- 1+ years experience
- IIT Guwahati
- English, Hindi, Telugu
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Overview
Platform Engineer at Orchard Works, focused on platform engineering. Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 36% in two quarters. Most at home with service mesh and Backstage. Amateur photographer; mostly street and food.
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Skills
CI/CDBackstageservice meshKubernetes
Experience
- Platform EngineerOct 2025 - PresentOrchard Works · 1 yr · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
- Shipped 8 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.
- Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 361ms to 171ms.
- Moved 85% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Projects
Conference talk: lessons from developer platform
2026What went wrong and what worked while scaling platform engineering.
Open-source Backstage toolkit
2025A small library for platform engineering that 328 developers star on GitHub.
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Education
- IIT GuwahatiB.Tech, Mathematics2021 - 2025
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