Sruthi Kutty

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Director of Engineering, Airtel - rate limiting · Django · Redis

Airtel
Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
12+ years experience
IIT Kanpur
English, Hindi, Marathi
Co-founder
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Overview

I lead API platforms at Airtel in Mumbai. Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 319ms to 145ms. Brought on-call pages for public API down from 23 a week to 1. Most at home with Redis and VS Code extensions.

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Skills
PythonVS Code extensionsrate limitingRedisDjangoOpenAPIPostgreSQL
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a design-minded co-founder for invoice financing for landlords

The idea
Invoice financing for landlords
Stage
Early revenue
I bring
10 years in API platforms
Looking for
Product-minded engineer
Commitment
Full-time now
Location
Mumbai or remote

I bring 23 years of API platforms (currently Airtel). Ideally you've run operations in India. Full-time from day one.

Mumbai, Indiaredisdjangoopenapi
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Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Jul 2024 - Present
    Airtel · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Shipped 25 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 29 a week to 4.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Sep 2022 - Jul 2024
    Paytm · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Jan 2021 - Jun 2022
    BrowserStack · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 24 minutes to under 3.
  4. Backend Engineer
    Aug 2017 - Jan 2021
    Salesforce · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 38 a week to 4.
  5. Principal Engineer
    Jan 2015 - Jul 2017
    Cisco · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Previously an operator for 5 years before investing.
    • Backed 30 founders at pre-seed and seed.

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API platforms benchmark
2024

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Python and VS Code extensions on real workloads.

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Education

  1. IIT Kanpur
    B.Tech, Information Technology
    1998 - 2002

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