Shalini Gopika Kannan

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Director of Engineering at Anchor Pay · Cloud infrastructure

Anchor Pay
Noida, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
14+ years experience
NIT Trichy
English, Hindi
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Overview

Currently at Anchor Pay, where I lead cloud infrastructure with a team of 53. Shipped 26 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback. Before that: Postman and Hindustan Unilever. Most at home with incident response and observability. Travel slowly, usually by train.

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Building out infrastructure at Anchor Pay: frontend engineers wanted in Noida

Role
Frontend engineer
Level
Mid
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
₹42-60 LPA
Team
Infrastructure, 10 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Production experience with Go Production experience with Terraform Clear written communication
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp ₹38-47 LPA. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Noida, India · remote OKterraformincident responsego

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Oct 2023 - Present
    Anchor Pay · 3 yr · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 24 minutes to under 6.
    • Led the migration of 34 services to incident response.
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 33 a week to 4.
  2. Staff Site Reliability Engineer
    Mar 2020 - Oct 2023
    Postman · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 24 a week to 2.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Sep 2016 - Mar 2020
    Hindustan Unilever · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Led the migration of 48 services to Go.
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 18 a week to 2.
  4. Site Reliability Engineer
    May 2014 - Sep 2016
    American Express · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 517ms to 108ms.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Dec 2012 - May 2014
    ITC · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Led the migration of 80 services to incident response.
    • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 43% in two quarters.

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Education

  1. NIT Trichy
    B.Tech, Electrical Engineering
    1999 - 2003

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