Harish Kumar Thirugnanam

• Led OkDistributor from a 0–1 PMF initiative to market adoption by 100 distributors, handling turnovers of ₹5–500 CR and achieving an ARR of ₹300K, while continuously maintaining an 80% retention rate throughout the journey.
• Built and scaled an engineering team from 3 to 9 members, fostering cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, and QA teams while directly partnering with the Director of Engineering to drive strategic technical initiatives.
• Managed and coordinated multiple teams: While driving the OkDistributor initiative, led a dedicated core platform team of 2 BE engineers focused on CRM integrations and core invoice taxing functionality, ensuring seamless bidirectional data sync with Tally and robust invoice processing.
• Architected a state-based transaction synchronization system, eliminating settlement inconsistencies across Accounting, Billing, and Business Services.
• Designed and implemented an auto-assignment feature for collections, optimizing invoice tracking and boosting user retention from 30% to 80%.
• Developed multi-mode payment recording (Online, NEFT, Cheque) with user-driven inputs like cheque numbers and NEFT references.
• Enhanced payment reconciliation by enabling automated transaction matching through bank statement uploads and processing.

Progressed from Software Engineer → Senior Software Engineer → Associate Tech Lead, driving high-impact projects and rapid career growth.

• Designed and implemented critical backend services using GoLang & RoR, managing database schema design and migrations (Postgres, Redis).
• Developed bulk APIs to sync offline transactions, enabling seamless ledger updates and scaling to ~2.5Mn transactions daily at 4K RPM.
• Integrated circuit breakers & internal authentication mechanisms, enhancing fault tolerance and mitigating failures across accounting services.
• Architected and built OkStaff & OkDebit (0–1 PMF initiatives – scrapped), collaborating with Tech Leads, Product Managers, and Designers to build from scratch.
• Led the development of OkStaff, an attendance & payroll automation system for merchants, scaling to 100K users in 3 months before pivoting.
• Implemented gamification features & real-time notifications, improving user engagement and platform reliability.
• Championed rigorous code reviews, OOP best practices, and scalable architecture, strengthening the overall engineering foundation.

• Developed an asynchronous job scheduler using Django-Celery & RabbitMQ.
• Architected a health monitoring application with a TCP-based system to validate hardware health.