Sriram Nagarajan

About Sriram Nagarajan

Management- Managing platform and product engineering teams- Managing about 15 members currently and about 40 over the years- My Principles - Lead by serving - A manager’s performance should be evaluated only by the team’s performance - A manager is responsible for inspiring team members to action and unblocking them- Happy to get into the weeds whenever we run low on bandwidth or take up the boring but necessary work (that is not in the team’s way)- Helped co-create a firm-wide learning cohort-based learning program - first of its kind- Served in internal committees for promotion, upskilling, coronavirus response team and various others- Gave a talk at Pycon 2018- Helped set the ball rolling for the [opensource policy](https://github.com/deshaw)- Understand the importance of managing up and down- Project Estimation - devilishly hard to provide an accurate estimate months in advance, but ensured a process of keeping stakeholders in the loop in case of major deviations- Like to read books - usually less distraction free than jumping between blog posts, tweets etc. Some of my recent reads - The Managers Path - Camille Fournier - Data Intensive Applications - Martin Kleppmann - Domain Driven Design - Eric Evans - Attack Surface - Cory DoctorowPeople- Offered high visibility to consistent top performers in the team- On the same page with reports on all promotion decisions- Owned and dealt with bad hiring decisions-**Biggest miss so far**- inability to hold on to and build engineering managers for my teamTechnical- Responsible for the jupyter based repositories in [https://github.com/orgs/deshaw/repositories](https://github.com/orgs/deshaw/repositories)- Contributed towards the firm’s frontend framework- A fan of TDD, and good OO design - keen eye for good, scalable design - have eternally [struggled to make the right trade-offs in dynamic Big proponent of developer experience (DX)- time to first success (working with APIs, time to get a developer instance started, providing standalone experimental setups etc)-**(Improvement)** Scratching a technical itch during a project execution - usually all ends well but this comes at a cost of other activities (exercise for eg, and maybe this is just a ruse)

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Everstage

   Apr 2022 — Present · Coimbatore, IN

   Leading development and delivery for a few Sales Performance Management (SPM) modules, helping scale engineering practices and set a remote/hybrid culture

Education

• PSG College of Technology

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician

  2005 — 2009

Skills

• Java Enterprise Edition
• Creative Writing
• Jquery
• Angularjs
• Javascript
• Spring Roo
• Python
• Struts
• Bootstrap
• Pandas
• Sql
• Linux
• Jpa
• Spring
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Java
• Web Services
• Core Java