Vaishnavi Sindhu Varma

Senior Engineering Manager at Lighthouse Pay · Growth engineering · React, PostgreSQL

Lighthouse Pay

Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

9+ years experience

IIT Kharagpur

English, Hindi, Telugu

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Based in Hyderabad. I lead growth engineering at Lighthouse Pay. Brought on-call pages for growth down from 16 a week to 2. Grew the growth team from 4 to 23 engineers. Before that: Intel and Mahindra Group. Most at home with experimentation and PostgreSQL. Board member at a local non-profit.

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analyticsTypeScriptexperimentationReactPostgreSQLNode.js

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Hiring a staff data engineer for the growth team - Hyderabad

Role: Staff data engineer
Level: Staff / Principal
Type: Full-time
Work mode: Remote within country
Compensation: ₹50-80 LPA
Team: Growth, 7 people
Start: This quarter
Must have: Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Clear written communication
Process: Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp ₹27-62 LPA. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Hyderabad, Indiatypescriptreactexperimentation

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Experience

Senior Engineering Manager
Feb 2025 - Present
Lighthouse Pay · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 45 minutes to under 5.
- Built the experimentation framework 13 product teams use to ship changes safely.
Engineering Manager
Nov 2022 - Feb 2025
Intel · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
- Grew the growth team from 3 to 25 engineers.
Full-Stack Engineer
Apr 2019 - Oct 2022
Mahindra Group · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
- Wrote the analytics service that now handles 69 million requests a day.
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 35 minutes to under 6.
Full-Stack Engineer
Oct 2017 - Apr 2019
Google · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
- Cut p99 latency on the growth services from 694ms to 50ms.

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IIT Kharagpur
B.Tech, Electronics and Communication
2012 - 2016

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