Ramya Vasudha Pillai

Overview

I've spent 27 years on developer tools - first at Kotak Mahindra Bank, now at Dune Care. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 38 minutes to under 4. Shipped 16 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback. Before that: Zoho and JPMorgan Chase. Most at home with LSP and Rust. Outside work: long runs and longer podcasts.

Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Sep 2025 - Present
   Dune Care · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 540ms to 179ms.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 44 minutes to under 3.
2. Engineering Manager

   Jan 2024 - Sep 2025
   Zoho · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Shipped 10 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 20 minutes to under 4.
3. Principal Engineer

   Aug 2021 - Dec 2023
   JPMorgan Chase · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Sit on 7 boards.
4. Senior Software Engineer

   Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
   Ola · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Shipped 7 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
5. Engineering Manager

   Feb 2017 - Jun 2020
   Kotak Mahindra Bank · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Shipped 30 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
   • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 29 a week to 4.

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Education

1. PSG College of Technology

   B.E., Mathematics
   1995 - 1999