Sai Kodi

About Sai Kodi

Engineering leader with deep individual contributor roots, shaped by many years of hands on engineering alongside leading and scaling high performing teams. I focus on clarity, ownership, and execution. My work centers on designing resilient platforms, strengthening operational excellence, and helping teams navigate difficult technical and organizational tradeoffs with discipline, empathy, and sound judgment.My background as an individual contributor spans system design, distributed systems, reliability engineering, and production critical workflows. I am comfortable going deep on architecture, reviewing complex designs and code, and reasoning through failure modes, data consistency, and performance tradeoffs when it matters.I bring a systems oriented mindset shaped by years of hands on engineering, incident leadership, and long horizon problem solving. I am comfortable operating in ambiguity, making decisions under pressure, and balancing short term execution with long term platform health.I care deeply about developing people, setting high standards, and creating environments where engineers feel supported, accountable, and motivated to deliver meaningful business impact consistently.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineering Manager

   Thrive Market

   Jan 2024 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Senior Engineering Manager at Thrive Market leading two core engineering teams across business critical commerce and platform systems, including cart, checkout, payments, pricing, inventory, order placement, and merchandising integrations.My core focus is building reliable, scalable systems and high performing engineering teams in complex, high traffic environments. I specialize in stabilizing legacy platforms, modernizing critical workflows, and improving operational excellence through strong architecture, clear ownership, and disciplined execution.I bring deep experience in incident leadership and reliability engineering, including handling high severity escalations, coordinating cross functional response, and driving rigorous root cause analysis that leads to durable, systemic fixes rather than short term workarounds.A major strength of mine is team building. I have recruited strong senior engineering talent, rebuilt underperforming teams, and created cultures centered on accountability, trust, and technical excellence. I care deeply about setting clear expectations, maintaining a high technical bar, and fostering psychological safety so teams can move fast without compromising quality.I operate comfortably at both strategic and execution levels. I work closely with product, merchandising, data, and executive leadership to translate business goals into clear technical plans, while remaining hands on with architecture, design reviews, and technical decision making when needed.My technical competencies include distributed systems, workflow orchestration, commerce and payments platforms, data consistency, idempotency, fault tolerance, and observability in production critical systems. I am passionate about building resilient platforms, growing strong engineering leaders, and creating teams that consistently deliver meaningful business impact in fast paced, high scale environments.

Education

• Andhra University

  CSSE, Computer Science

  1996 — 2000

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Software Development
• C#
• Distributed Systems
• .net
• Software Engineering
• Software Design
• Scrum
• Web Services
• Software Project Management
• Cloud Computing
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Java
• Scalability
• Xml
• Enterprise Architecture
• Integration
• Soa