Rutuja Tanvi Solanki

Overview

Co-founder & CTO of Saffron Energy, working on climate analytics. Grew the team to 14 people across 3 countries. Before that: Cisco and Amazon. Most at home with enterprise sales and data.

Experience

1. Co-founder & CTO

   Jan 2023 - Present
   Saffron Energy · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Raised $9 million across 3 rounds.
   • Grew the team to 74 people across 5 countries.
   • Signed 24 paying customers, 10 of them enterprises.
2. Director of Engineering

   Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
   Cisco · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Cut p99 latency on the web services from 438ms to 113ms.
3. Engineering Manager

   Aug 2017 - Oct 2020
   Amazon · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 20 a week to 2.
4. Staff Software Engineer

   Feb 2015 - Aug 2017
   Postman · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Led the migration of 71 services to carbon accounting.
   • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 312ms to 142ms.
5. Full-Stack Engineer

   Apr 2012 - Jan 2015
   Visa · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 34 a week to 1.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 17 minutes to under 6.

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Education

1. IIM Bangalore

   MBA, Business Administration
   2004 - 2006
2. PSG College of Technology

   B.E., Business Administration
   1999 - 2003