Saravanan Naidu

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Director of Engineering at Groww · Embedded systems

Groww
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
10+ years experience
IIM Ahmedabad
English, Hindi, Kannada
AdvisingOpen to work
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Overview

I lead embedded systems at Groww in Bengaluru. Brought on-call pages for firmware down from 27 a week to 2. Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion. Before that: Cisco and Uber. Most at home with C and ARM Cortex-M.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in embedded systems
  • Advice on embedded systems
  • Second opinions on C decisions
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
Please don't message about
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Requests to fix your code for free
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack

Best reached early in the week

Skills
CRTOSembedded LinuxARM Cortex-M
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for new engineering managers: embedded systems and ARM Cortex-M

Topics
embedded systems, ARM Cortex-M, embedded Linux
Format
Async reviews
Terms
Open to discuss
Capacity
One call a month
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

14 years of embedded systems. One call a month or async reviews.

Bengaluru, Indiacembedded linuxrtos
Open
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Open to Embedded Engineer roles at Series B banking companies

Target roles
Embedded Engineer
Level
Mid
Industries
Climate tech, AI infrastructure
Work mode
Hybrid
Available
30 days notice
Work authorization
Indian citizen, open to relocating
What I'm looking for
Early-stage company (Series B) where embedded systems is core to the product.
Not interested in
Night shifts

14 years in embedded systems. Strongest at embedded Linux and ARM Cortex-M. Serving notice now.

Bengaluru, India · remote OKarm cortex-mcrtos
Open

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Sep 2025 - Present
    Groww · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 491ms to 120ms.
    • Grew the firmware team from 3 to 37 engineers.
    • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 39% in two quarters.
  2. Staff Embedded Engineer
    May 2023 - Sep 2025
    Cisco · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 6 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Brought on-call pages for firmware down from 36 a week to 1.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Sep 2020 - Apr 2023
    Uber · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion.
  4. Embedded Engineer
    Aug 2018 - Aug 2020
    Zomato · 2 yr · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Moved 94% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Embedded Engineer
    Oct 2016 - Aug 2018
    Samsung R&D · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 481ms to 94ms.
    • Wrote the RTOS service that now handles 26 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. IIM Ahmedabad
    MBA, Business Administration
    2015 - 2017
  2. Manipal Institute of Technology
    B.Tech, Electronics and Communication
    2008 - 2012

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