C S Sriram (He/Him) Email and Phone Number
And that finishes this Tarantino-esque summary!An unreasonable 'why not' thinker. Outcome over productivity.Agility over milestones.People over business, product, and process.Top-down accountabilityArmed with the knowledge acquired from his embarrassing past failures, he now "influences" people instead of "manipulating" them. This completes his transformation from trying to be a Morgoth to trying to be a Gandalf. It is however widely believed that he will just turn into a senile Slartibartfast.Future aspirations include winning a huge lottery, finding the meaning to the answer 'What do you get if you multiply by six by seven?', growing a beard that can support a small bird's nest, and getting a teacher's job to match it. Digging into the pre-historic runes, we find that Sriram started off by being a nocturnal rapscallion at Wipro Technologies by breaking up both the hardware and software of their client's products (a procedure also known as testing). Following this, he moved on to Huawei Technologies, where he messed up things so bad that they deported him to China. But that worked no good and he was brought back as soon as he was sent. After a painful tenure of close to a year, he quit before the company chased him out.This was followed by stints at multiple places where he pretended to work hard when all the handwork was done by minions written in Perl, PHP, Javascript, Java, and Python. After having manipulated computers into doing his will, he decided to pursue the same with people...and failed miserably at his first attempt.****All skills described below are fictional. Any resemblance to any real skill is purely coincidental****Leadership------------Process reengineering, Pod and Organizational strategy, Mentorship, Managing managers, Growing leaders, Career and compensation management, Engineering budgetsTechnology and domain-------------------------SaaS, Architecture patterns, Test automation, Domain Driven Design, MicroservicesManagement--------------Technical vision, Strategy, OKRs and KPIs, Quality assurance, Remote, and distributed teams
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Vice President Of EngineeringBetterworks Feb 2024 - PresentMenlo Park, Ca, UsAt the Godel, Escher, and Bach level of reflection.Complete management of the India offshore development center for Betterworks.Leading senior managers and staff engineers.Driving analytics, integration, AI, and product portfolio enhancement from India.Vendor selection and management.Resource allocation, compensation and career growth strategies.Customer advisory board for EU region.
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Senior Director Of EngineeringBetterworks Mar 2022 - Feb 2024Menlo Park, Ca, UsStared long enough into the abyss and fought the monster until I became one myself.Building self-driven product development pods. Managing managers, leading leaders, mentoring mentors. Trying hard to be a mentor, not a dementor.Still trying to be Gandalf, but will mostly end up turning into Slartibartfast.In serious terms,Scaled the India engineering team 5X in 15 months.Built data analytics and system integration capabilities.Coached and groomed senior and staff engineers.Transformed the QA organization into a first-class citizen of the global engineering organization.
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Director Of EngineeringBetterworks Feb 2020 - Apr 2022Menlo Park, Ca, UsConniving with the best engineers in the world to ensure the vox populi turns into goals that are meaningful and measurable(aka) the opposite of my new year's resolutions!In serious terms,Integrated the Hyphen engineering into the bigger Betterworks engineering org.Carved out analytics capability from the existing Hyphen engineering team resulting in career growth for multiple engineers.
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Director Of EngineeringBetterworks Feb 2019 - Feb 2020Menlo Park, Ca, UsScheming with the best brains in the world to ensure the vox populi is heard across companies. Cast in the mad scientist role tinkering with processes, people and products and leading them all to glory. Playing Gandalf to a talented fellowship. Yes, it means I basically sport a beard, appear at random times, give words of wisdom and disappear for long periods of time and then appear again when everything settles with an all-knowing smile. Otherwise called as executive management.Hyphen was acquired by BetterWorks in 2020.Delivered the long-stalled 2.0 revamp of the Hyphen product which resulted in the acquisition of the company.Established fundamental culture and process that is still sustained as the team scales.Transformed the team into a TDD culture resulting in almost 0 regression defects from dev to QA.
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Co-Founder And CtoWhyable Technologies Aug 2014 - Nov 2018Get sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their headsComplete the Brain's mission - "The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to take over the world!"Find the holy grail (and the hand grenade of Antioch and the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog)Or in boring terms, building a self-motivated team that builds beautiful web and mobile applications and most importantly, have fun while doing that.
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Chief Software ArchitectPaxterra Solutions Inc Oct 2011 - Aug 2014Bengaluru, InDay dream. Build castles in the air. Convert them to block diagrams on the whiteboard. Convert the block diagrams to blocks of obfuscated code. Convert the obfuscated code into money. Convert the money into buying nice cushions and books for day dreaming.Day dream...And so on to ad infinitum! -
Manager EngineeringPaxterra Solutions Inc Aug 2010 - Oct 2011Bengaluru, InA supposedly high profile job, where I get to boss around worthless minions (computers and programs, not my sub-ordinates, I was already doing that) to do my bidding. In short, playing God to dumb machines that obey my every command while creating applications that are beautiful (cause I always indent them neatly) and tragic (because there is no guarantee they will work)!Additional responsibilities : 1. Deciding the company's technology direction and guiding it towards it. Which is why Facebook and Twitter are very popular!2. Deciding the team's lunch location everyday.3. Ensuring I never work on one language/platform for more than 3 months. So that they can never find out! >:)
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Co-FounderLa Bordello May 2010 - Aug 2010In the business of selling intellectual conversations. An idea that was ahead of its times. Or at least that is what I tell to cover my own lack of entrepreneurial skills back then! :-)But I did end up meeting the best minds that I have ever known and did eventually started a business using a connection from these days.
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Senior Software EngineerWichorus Feb 2007 - Apr 2010A perfectly cushy position, where I write a script that sleeps for 5 hours and prints out a summary report with random failures and keeps both developers and testers happy. While growing in this position (my seat was moved from the ground floor to the first floor) I also manage a small team which helps me in deciding where the random failures must appear and in doing some of the boring work which I can comfortably delegate.
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Test EngineerIp Unity Communications Pvt Ltd., Feb 2005 - Feb 2007Alpharetta, Georgia, UsA rather insane role that involved sanity testing of every development release, white box testing (my cubicle was a white box and I tested from it), utility script design (fancy name for saying I wrote scripts that were supposed to make people's life easy but made them spend more time debugging the script than they would have spent on manual operation of the same procedure) and skipping status meetings.Skills learnt in this role include improving my Table Tennis, ordering dinner over phone and high speed IRC typing.Achievement - * Had a bet over eating a Banana Split Ice Cream mixed with Hot and Sour soup. Won the bet * Was instrumental in my off site manager quitting within 6 months of my joining the company -
Associate Software EngineerHuawei Dec 2003 - Jan 2005Shenzhen, Guangdong, CnA junior role that primarily involved connecting and disconnecting random cables connected to a Soft Switch while pretending to make VoIP calls and look seriously in to my monitor.Took the initiative and handled the extra roles of 'Snack Center Output Manager' and 'Coffee Machine Liquidator'. Was the only guy in the entire office to know more about the 'Oxford Book Store' beneath the campus than his own cubicle. Will probably be remembered at the office for an unforgettably obscene Dumb Charades performance. -
Software EngineerWipro Technologies Aug 2003 - Dec 2003Bangalore, Karnataka, InWe were the late night ninjas attacking helpless computers and multi-function peripherals leaving behind nothing but horrible bugs for unsuspecting developers to find the next morning.
C S Sriram (He/Him) Education Details
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Coimbatore Institute Of TechnologyTicketless Travelling
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C S Sriram (He/Him) works for Betterworks
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C S Sriram (He/Him) attended Coimbatore Institute Of Technology.
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