Narendran R Email & Phone Number

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

United States

Developing web portals that help a 40 year old construction company to digitize their process in building luxury homes.Leading a team of 8, helping them to adopt good engineering practices and clean architecture.Planning and migrating legacy .NET application servers to nodeJS in AWS cloud. Rewriting prematurely optimized microservices architecture to Domain Driven Monolith to improve engineering productivity and reduce complexity.

Singapore

Built a set of SDKs that helps developers to use the blockchain ecosystem for authentication, file storage and access.Led a team of 15 Engineers where I brought in necessary engineering culture that helped expand the team two fold.Successfully planned and achieved non-functional engineering roadmaps including upskilling the developers.Introduced documentation culture across the board reducing time spent on calls by 50% and increased the speed of onboarding new members by 3x.Created team wide engineering playbook, coached team leaders to help their developers write sustainable software by maintaining standard coding style and increased test coverage from 0 to 70%.Closely collaborated with cross functional teams to plan and execute product roadmap. Refactored the gateway API service with better migrations and removing anti-patterns. Created a logging library in Go which abstracted implementation details and enforced the structure thus enabling the team to introduce logging and tracing to 5 microservices within 4 days.

India

Built a P2P forex and commodity trading platform.Led a team of 7 engineers in identifying and resolving engineering bottlenecks that increased the productivity of the engineering team by 2x.Streamlined the communication and shortened the feedback cycle that doubled the team’s delivery speed.Built the peer to peer money transfer system using postgres database as a double-entry book keeping ledger that helped users to transfer money without using banks.Built the data source modules by integrating with different forex and commodity providers that became the foundation of the data ingestion.Introduced caching layer in the architecture by using adapter pattern in Golang that reduced the cost of sourcing market data.

Tokyo, Japan

Developed a client portfolio management software for equity and assets that handled the reports pipeline of billion dollar investments.Integrated and modernized enterprise investment management systems to improve productivity of the investment managers.Used TDD to improve the code quality and increased the overall test coverage by 20%. Refactored and reduced the code complexity by removing 4500+ lines of code.

Chennai, Sfo

Built and engineered solutions that bring intelligence to the mining industry to optimize blast material.I built the backend engine to support geospatial visualizations that spins off docker containers on demand with cloud blob storage as custom mount points.Brought in observability practices and Continuous Delivery to the team that increased time to deploy product features by 2x and cut debugging time by half.

Chennai Area, India

One of the early engineers who built the foundational systems that paved the way to build AI e-commerce SaaS products.Re-architected and improved a tightly coupled monolithic codebase into a microservices based platform. Saved ~$2million on AWS bill at the same time scaling the traffic to millions.Built and deployed 5+ microservices in production using Python, Django and Flask. Architected and built AI video marketing SaaS using Python, Serverless and video transcoding technologies.

Chennai Area, India

Implemented data pipelines and stores using Kafka, Apache Storm and Cassandra that handled millions of social media posts to create forecasts of the U.S Presidential election.Improved the performance of a legacy scraping framework and added features to scrape dynamic web pages thereby decreasing the developer time spent for scraping new webpages.

Chennai Area, India

Released a new version of panel meters with an improved family of microcontrollers and programmed the firmware upgrade for 1000s of meters.Reduced the production time and manpower by 30% by automating the tests using python and CAN bus protocol.

Chennai Area, India

Assist the faculty in large training programs and train students with quality content delivery.

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Activities and Societies: Event OrganizerWhile doing electronics engineering, went into the rabbit hole of CISCO networking courses.

High School, Computer Science