Pallavi Swathi Iyer

Overview

I invest in developer infrastructure at Mapleleaf Ventures, usually at pre-seed and seed. Led or co-led 18 investments, 9 of them now at Series B or later. I speak at conferences a couple of times a year.

Experience

1. Partner

   Sep 2024 - Present
   Mapleleaf Ventures · 2 yr 1 mo · Contract · Coimbatore, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on ML platform by 28% in two quarters.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 31 minutes to under 2.
   • Led the migration of 13 services to open source.
2. Senior Engineering Manager

   May 2023 - Sep 2024
   Boston Consulting Group · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Coimbatore, India
   • Led the migration of 59 services to developer tools.
   • Grew the ML platform team from 4 to 36 engineers.
3. Staff Platform Engineer

   Jul 2020 - May 2023
   Swiggy · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Coimbatore, India
   • Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion.
4. Software Engineer

   Feb 2018 - Jul 2020
   Ola · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Coimbatore, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on ML platform by 35% in two quarters.
   • Brought on-call pages for ML platform down from 18 a week to 2.
5. Senior Engineering Manager

   Sep 2014 - Feb 2018
   Oracle · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Coimbatore, India
   • Cut p99 latency on the ML platform services from 635ms to 150ms.
   • Built the experimentation framework 27 product teams use to ship changes safely.

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Education

1. University of Delhi

   B.Com, Computer Science
   1998 - 2002