Sanjay Rahul Reddy

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Senior Engineering Manager at Dropbox · Growth engineering

Dropbox
Seattle, WA · PT (UTC-8)
12+ years experience
USC
English
Co-founderAdvising
Messaging unavailable

Overview

Senior Engineering Manager at Dropbox, focused on growth engineering. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 18 minutes to under 5. Most at home with hardware bring-up and React. I read too many books about cities.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on growth engineering
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Questions about growth engineering
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack
  • Courses and coaching offers

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
TypeScriptPostgreSQLhardware bring-upReact
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a technical co-founder for patient intake for schools in tier-2 cities

The idea
Patient intake for schools in tier-2 cities
Stage
Early revenue
I bring
12 years in growth engineering
Looking for
Product-minded engineer
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
Seattle or remote

I bring 18 years of growth engineering (currently Dropbox). Ideally you've shipped B2B software. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

Seattle, WAhardware bring-upreacttypescript
Open
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for new engineering managers: growth engineering and hardware bring-up

Topics
growth engineering, PostgreSQL, hardware bring-up
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Free for early founders
Capacity
A few async reviews a month
Best for
Teams scaling past 50 people

18 years of growth engineering. Can review plans, decks and hiring loops.

Seattle, WApostgresqlhardware bring-upreact
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jan 2023 - Present
    Dropbox · 3 yr 9 mo · Contract · Seattle, WA
    • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Grew the growth team from 3 to 19 engineers.
  2. Senior Full-Stack Engineer
    May 2020 - Jan 2023
    Apple · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Brought on-call pages for growth down from 28 a week to 3.
  3. Senior Full-Stack Engineer
    Jun 2018 - May 2020
    Morgan Stanley · 1 yr 11 mo · Contract · Seattle, WA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 23 minutes to under 4.
  4. Staff Full-Stack Engineer
    Mar 2017 - Jun 2018
    Instacart · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Built the experimentation framework 19 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
  5. Staff Full-Stack Engineer
    Mar 2015 - Mar 2017
    Intel · 2 yr · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 23 minutes to under 3.

Projects

Growth engineering benchmark
2026

Reproducible benchmarks comparing TypeScript and React on real workloads.

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Education

  1. USC
    BS, Electronics and Communication
    2004 - 2008

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