Sahil Neeraj Thakur

Overview

Based in Pune. I lead developer tools at Hindustan Unilever. Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion. Grew the developer experience team from 5 to 36 engineers. Before that: Goldman Sachs and Reliance Jio. Home cook with strong opinions about biryani.

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Nov 2024 - Present
   Hindustan Unilever · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Shipped 29 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
   • Built the experimentation framework 39 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 44 minutes to under 4.
2. Software Engineer

   Jun 2023 - Sep 2024
   Goldman Sachs · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 24% in two quarters.
   • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 31 a week to 2.
3. Software Engineer

   Dec 2020 - Jun 2023
   Reliance Jio · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Moved 93% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
4. Software Engineer

   Sep 2018 - Dec 2020
   Salesforce · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Shipped 9 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
5. Software Engineer

   Oct 2017 - Sep 2018
   Deloitte · 11 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
   • Shipped 6 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
   • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 44% in two quarters.

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Education

1. IIT Hyderabad

   B.Tech, Electrical Engineering
   2012 - 2016