Nithin Mani

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CTO at Notch Energy | ex-BrowserStack

Notch Energy
Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
IIM Calcutta
English, Hindi, Tamil
AdvisingCo-founder
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Overview

CTO at Notch Energy, focused on real-time systems. Built the experimentation framework 31 product teams use to ship changes safely. Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion. Before that: BrowserStack and Wipro. Most at home with Go and Erlang/OTP. Kannada theatre fan.

Good reasons to reach out
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Advice on real-time systems
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Questions about real-time systems
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Requests to fix your code for free
  • SEO and link-building offers

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Skills
ElixirErlang/OTPthreat modelingRedisGoWebSockets
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for early-stage teams: real-time systems and threat modeling

Topics
real-time systems, Erlang/OTP, Go
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Paid
Capacity
Two calls a month
Best for
Teams scaling past 50 people

28 years of real-time systems. One call a month or async reviews.

Chennai, India · remote OKrediselixirwebsockets
Open
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a design-minded co-founder for pharmacy logistics for D2C brands

The idea
Pharmacy logistics for D2C brands
Stage
Prototype
I bring
12 years in real-time systems
Looking for
Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment
Full-time now
Location
Chennai or remote

I bring 28 years of real-time systems (currently Notch Energy). Ideally you've led a design team. Full-time from day one.

Chennai, Indiawebsocketsthreat modelingelixir
Open

Experience

  1. CTO
    Sep 2024 - Present
    Notch Energy · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Led the migration of 22 services to Redis.
    • Moved 94% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Staff Software Engineer
    Jan 2021 - Sep 2024
    BrowserStack · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Led the migration of 22 services to Elixir.
  3. Staff Software Engineer
    Oct 2018 - Jan 2021
    Wipro · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 880ms to 134ms.
  4. Software Engineer
    Apr 2017 - Oct 2018
    Postman · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Wrote the threat modeling service that now handles 89 million requests a day.
    • Moved 70% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Director of Engineering
    Feb 2016 - Apr 2017
    Asian Paints · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Grew the real-time team from 6 to 32 engineers.
    • Moved 92% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

Projects

Real-time systems benchmark
2023

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Redis and WebSockets on real workloads.

Write-up: real-time systems in practice
2022

A long-form guide to real-time systems for people starting out.

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Education

  1. IIM Calcutta
    MBA, Business Administration
    1998 - 2000
  2. PSG College of Technology
    B.E., Computer Science
    1993 - 1997

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