Srihari Kookal

Email: [email protected] | Github: srih4ri | Phone: +91 7204275616

🥷 I can code, I do not have a prefered area of the stack, instead I thrive on environments where I can move fluidly between maintaining the backend servers and writing CSS.

🧑‍💻 I plan and execute projects, leading a team of engineers.

🌻 I can mentor my fellow engineers to grow in their profession, and keep them motivated in their work.

📈 I understand the business model and the short and long term goals of the organisation, use this knoweldge to guide my team’s decisions and start initiatives that support the mission of the organisation.

Experience

Staff Engineer, Clark Technical Leadership

Feb, 2023 - Present

Lead the system architecture design, development, and maintenance of scalable web applications using Ruby on Rails.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of engineers.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement technical solutions that meet business requirements.
Drive architectural decisions and ensure the implementation of best practices in software development.
Identify and address performance bottlenecks and optimise the overall system performance.
Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and ensure high code quality standards.
Actively collaborate with Devops team to make improvements in infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.

Tech Lead, Clark Technical Leadership

Feb, 2021 - Feb, 2023

Lead a team of engineers supporting the Marketing Team
Collaborate with marketing team to plan quarterly roadmap
Run 2 week sprints, executing the roadmap
Identify technical risks, come up with quarterly plans to mitigate them
Continue to contribute to the team as Full stack developer

Senior Software Engineer, Clark Individual Contributor

Nov, 2020 - Feb, 2021

Work across the native app, Ember JS front end and Ruby on Rails backend app as a full stack engineer
Identify technical risks and propose mitigation actions in domains owned
Notable work in Consent Management & GDPR compliance, Customer Attribution, Reward Vouchers

Associate Vice President - Technology, Scripbox Leadership

Feb, 2020 - Oct, 2020

Reported to CTO/CPO and lead the backend team for the core product
Managed a multi talented team of Software Engineers, Quality Analysts and Business Analysts
Collaborated closely with product to plan and execute the annual vision and quarterly roadmaps
Worked closely with VP Operations to meet KPIs enabled by the tech team for Order Processing and Call Center
Pioneered the customer data migration project after first major merger and acquisition operation.

Product Engineer, Scripbox Technical Leadership + Individual Contributor

Feb, 2017 - Feb, 2020

Mentoring

Lead the backend team for scripbox’s core services.
Onboarded a team of four rails developers to react, switched to react from handlebars with zero impact on delivery times.
Nurtured a culture of ownership and pride.

Ops and Site Reliability

First responder for incidents in scripbox’s core services.
Provided On Call support and ensured uptime of scripbox’s call center.
Rolled out rails upgrade from 4.3 to 5.1 with near zero downtime.

Product

Built a Business Process Management software from scratch. Over the last one year, this software makes scripbox’s processes measurable, efficient and fast.
Built a highly concurrent Portfolio Reporting System in a short span of a month, used elixir and postgres.
Built key components for a paperless onboarding process - Reduced time to invest in a mutual fund to hours from days.

Technologies used

AWS, kubernetes, docker.
ruby, elixir
elasticsearch, postgres, mysql
LaTex, Redash/Metabase

Software Consultant, Big Binary Individual Contributor

July 2015 - Dec 2016

Worked as a Rails and React JS developer for multiple clients. Projects worked on included e-commerce systems, mobile app backends and logistics software built using rails. Also wrote few blog posts on BigBinary Blog

Software Architect, Bang The Table. Individual Contributor

Jan, 2013 - July 2015

Worked as a Rails and Javascript developer for building two products in Community Engagement.

Software Engineer, Foradian Technologies Individual Contributor

July, 2010 - May, 2012

Worked as a Rails and Javascript developer on Fedena, an open source school management system. Worked on building ‘Sampoorna’ , the school erp used by kerala government.

Others

Worked with debian-ruby team to package Ruby Gems for Debian as a part of Diaspora project.