Padma Sowmya Mohan

CTO at Saffron Studio · Cloud infrastructure · incident response, Prometheus

Saffron Studio

Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

12+ years experience

University of Delhi

English, Hindi, Kannada

Hiring

Messaging unavailable

Overview

Based in Bengaluru. I lead cloud infrastructure at Saffron Studio. Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion. Most at home with AWS and Prometheus. I speak at conferences a couple of times a year.

Good reasons to reach out

Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
Second opinions on Prometheus decisions

Please don't message about

Courses and coaching offers
Agency or outsourcing pitches
Generic networking requests

Best reached early in the week

Skills

incident responsePrometheusAWSGo

HiringHiring for a role

closes in 3 months

Building out infrastructure at Saffron Studio: frontend engineers wanted in Bengaluru

Role: Frontend engineer
Level: Mid
Type: Full-time
Work mode: Remote within country
Compensation: ₹24-70 LPA
Team: Infrastructure, 6 people
Start: As soon as possible
Must have: Production experience with Go Production experience with Prometheus Good judgment about what not to build
Process: Decision within 10 days

Comp ₹39-60 LPA. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Bengaluru, India · remote OKincident responsegoprometheus

Open

Experience

CTO
Jul 2024 - Present
Saffron Studio · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 14 minutes to under 6.
- Moved 90% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Dec 2021 - Jul 2024
Samsung R&D · 2 yr 7 mo · Contract · Bengaluru, India
- Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 44% in two quarters.
- Built the experimentation framework 37 product teams use to ship changes safely.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Jun 2019 - Dec 2021
Qualcomm · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Moved 67% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
- Shipped 17 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
Site Reliability Engineer
Oct 2016 - Jun 2019
Tata Motors · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 18% in two quarters.
Site Reliability Engineer
Feb 2015 - Oct 2016
Tech Mahindra · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Shipped 26 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.

References

No references yet.

Education

University of Delhi
B.Com, Computer Science
2009 - 2013

Details

Compensation expectations

What they are targeting for their next role.

Visible to connections

Direct contact details

Direct email and a scheduling link.