Sana Zara Hashmi

S

Director of Engineering at Intuit | ex-PhonePe

Intuit
Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
IIT Roorkee
English, Hindi, Tamil
Advising
Messaging unavailable

Overview

Director of Engineering at Intuit, focused on developer tools. Built the experimentation framework 13 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: PhonePe and Qualcomm. Most at home with CLI design and Rust. Outside work: long runs and longer podcasts.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on developer tools
  • Second opinions on TypeScript decisions
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Questions about developer tools
Please don't message about
  • Generic networking requests
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
compilersLSPCLI designTypeScriptOpenAPIRust
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for new engineering managers: developer tools and OpenAPI

Topics
developer tools, LSP, OpenAPI
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Paid
Capacity
One advisory role at a time
Best for
Teams scaling past 50 people

24 years of developer tools. One call a month or async reviews.

Chennai, Indiarustopenapitypescript
Open

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Jan 2026 - Present
    Intuit · 9 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Led the migration of 46 services to LSP.
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 587ms to 141ms.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 44 minutes to under 6.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jan 2024 - Jan 2026
    PhonePe · 2 yr · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 19 a week to 2.
  3. Senior Software Engineer
    Jul 2020 - Jan 2024
    Qualcomm · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 15 minutes to under 6.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Jan 2019 - Jun 2020
    Nykaa · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 25 a week to 3.
  5. Principal Engineer
    Mar 2016 - Jan 2019
    EY · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Led or co-led 40 investments, 9 of them now at Series B or later.

Projects

Write-up: developer tools in practice
2024

A long-form guide to developer tools for people starting out.

Side project: a commute planner
2022

Built with Rust and TypeScript. 213 people used it last year.

References

No references yet.

Education

  1. IIT Roorkee
    B.Tech, Electronics and Communication
    1998 - 2002

Details

Compensation expectations
What they are targeting for their next role.
Visible to connections
Direct contact details
Direct email and a scheduling link.
Visible to connections

Trusted Partners

Sponsored