
Ravi Krishnan
Engineering Manager
Building great teams that ship great software
Engineering manager with fourteen years in software, the last six leading engineering teams for fintech and SaaS companies in Bengaluru. Grew from a senior engineer into a leader who cares as much about the people as the code, building teams that ship reliably and want to stay. Scaled a team from six to over twenty engineers while improving delivery predictability and cutting attrition through better hiring, process and growth paths. Sets technical direction with the team, runs hiring and one-to-ones, removes blockers, and balances delivery against engineering health. Calm, technical enough to earn respect and genuinely invested in his engineers. Looking for a senior engineering-manager or director role with a company that values both shipping and the people who do it.
Indus Payments Technologies - Bengaluru, India
Engineering Manager April 2018 to Present 8 years & 4 months
Scaled a team from six to over twenty engineers while improving delivery predictability and cutting attrition noticeably.
Set technical direction together with the team, guiding architecture and priorities without taking the keyboard away from engineers.
Run hiring, regular one-to-ones and growth plans, building clear career paths that keep strong engineers engaged and growing.
Remove blockers and shield the team from noise, protecting their focus so they can do their best, most reliable work.
Balance delivery against engineering health, pushing back when speed would quietly mortgage the quality of the platform.
Deccan Software Labs - Bengaluru, India
Tech Lead / Senior Engineer July 2010 to March 2018 7 years & 9 months
Shipped major features and improved code quality and delivery while growing into a leadership role on the team.
Learned architecture, mentoring and delivery leadership on the job across eight years of hands-on engineering.
Gained the engineering-leadership certificate and earned the move into a full engineering-manager role.
RV College of Engineering
BE in Computer Science (August 2006 to May 2010)
Pragmatic Engineering Academy
Certificate in Engineering Leadership (January 2017 to June 2017)
Scaled the team, cut attrition
People and shipping together
Team Scale-Up
Engineering Manager (January 2020 to December 2021)
Engineering Leadership Certificate
Pragmatic Engineering Academy (June 2017 to Present)
- Engineering Leadership
- Team Building & Hiring
- Technical Direction
- Delivery Management
- Coaching & 1:1s
- Architecture
- Agile Practices
- Stakeholder Management
- Performance Management
- Cloud & Backend