Poornima Aparna Rajan

Overview

I lead platform engineering at Brook Pay in Kochi. Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 379ms to 142ms. Before that: Oracle and Uber. Most at home with service mesh and observability. I write short fiction no one reads.

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Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Aug 2024 - Present
   Brook Pay · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 41 minutes to under 6.
   • Grew the developer platform team from 6 to 33 engineers.
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 336ms to 149ms.
2. Platform Engineer

   Oct 2022 - Jul 2024
   Oracle · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Moved 79% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Platform Engineer

   Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
   Uber · 2 yr · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Wrote the Backstage service that now handles 36 million requests a day.
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 816ms to 66ms.
4. Engineering Manager

   May 2019 - Oct 2020
   SAP · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Moved 64% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
5. Senior Engineering Manager

   Oct 2016 - May 2019
   Wipro · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
   • Built the experimentation framework 38 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Mentored 10 engineers through their first promotion.

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Education

1. IIT Delhi

   B.Tech, Mathematics
   2002 - 2006