Sanjay Ravi Krishnan

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Engineering Manager at PayPal · Embedded systems · RTOS, C

PayPal
Los Angeles, CA · PT (UTC-8)
8+ years experience
USC
English
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Overview

Based in Los Angeles. I lead embedded systems at PayPal. Built the experimentation framework 25 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: Reddit and Comcast. Volunteer coding coach for school students.

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  • Working sessions on embedded Linux
  • Questions about embedded systems
  • Second opinions on Bluetooth LE decisions
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Skills
Bluetooth LERTOSembedded LinuxC

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Nov 2025 - Present
    PayPal · 11 mo · Contract · Los Angeles, CA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 44 minutes to under 3.
    • Brought on-call pages for firmware down from 22 a week to 1.
    • Shipped 19 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.
  2. Embedded Engineer
    Jan 2024 - Nov 2025
    Reddit · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Los Angeles, CA
    • Moved 67% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Embedded Engineer
    Jun 2020 - Jan 2024
    Comcast · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Los Angeles, CA
    • Wrote the Bluetooth LE service that now handles 77 million requests a day.
  4. Embedded Engineer
    Oct 2018 - Jun 2020
    Intel · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Los Angeles, CA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 37 minutes to under 5.

Projects

Write-up: embedded systems in practice
2026

A long-form guide to embedded systems for people starting out.

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Education

  1. USC
    BS, Computer Science
    2013 - 2017

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