Sahana Raman

Overview

Principal Engineer at Cinder Finance, focused on web frontends. Led the migration of 21 services to React. Moved 79% of web traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Most at home with TypeScript and Next.js. Into vintage synthesizers.

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Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   May 2026 - Present
   Cinder Finance · 5 mo · Contract · Bengaluru, India
   • Led or co-led 19 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.
2. Senior Frontend Engineer

   May 2023 - May 2026
   Westbrook Digital · 3 yr · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Cut p99 latency on the web services from 759ms to 149ms.
   • Led the migration of 62 services to CSS.
3. Engineering Manager

   Feb 2022 - May 2023
   KPMG · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Brought on-call pages for web down from 32 a week to 2.
4. Engineering Manager

   Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
   InMobi · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Led the migration of 31 services to React.
   • Led the move of 157 screens to a shared React component library.
5. Senior Frontend Engineer

   Sep 2018 - Jan 2020
   Nvidia · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Moved 83% of web traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

1. St. Xavier's College, Mumbai

   B.A., Computer Engineering
   2010 - 2014