Sindhu Ranjani Chowdary

Overview

I've spent 24 years on cloud infrastructure - first at Microsoft, now at Relay Foods. Shipped 26 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback. Most at home with AWS and Prometheus. Board games, hiking, and terrible puns.

Replies on weekends

Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Dec 2023 - Present
   Relay Foods · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Led the migration of 12 services to Kubernetes.
   • Wrote the AWS service that now handles 22 million requests a day.
   • Moved 95% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
2. Director of Engineering

   Jul 2021 - Aug 2023
   Dream11 · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Built the experimentation framework 12 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 365ms to 104ms.
3. Principal Engineer

   Feb 2018 - Jul 2021
   Mahindra Group · 3 yr 5 mo · Contract · Chennai, India
   • Sit on 4 boards.
   • Backed 10 founders at pre-seed and seed.
4. Staff Site Reliability Engineer

   Jul 2015 - Feb 2018
   McKinsey & Company · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Shipped 15 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
5. Site Reliability Engineer

   Jan 2013 - Mar 2015
   Microsoft · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 23 minutes to under 4.
   • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 379ms to 85ms.

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Education

1. Delhi Technological University

   B.Tech, Electrical Engineering
   1997 - 2001