Sreenath Sreedharan
Bangalore
Summary
Transformative engineering leader with 23 years of experience in modernizing web application stacks and developing high-availability SaaS platforms. Expertise in platform engineering, microservices, and modular architectures to enhance product velocity and developer productivity. Led significant platform modernization initiatives to improve engineering efficiency and reduce time-to-market. Recently completed a Certificate Program in Leadership with AI, focusing on GenAI applications to accelerate platform development.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
CTO
Stealth Startup
Bangalore
08.2025 - Current
- Defined the product and technology strategy for an AI-native ERP platform for mid-market businesses.
- Created architecture for Brahma, a governed AI engineering platform utilizing supervised agents, automated testing, and human approval controls, ensuring robust compliance and quality assurance.
- Established AI-agent model for document processing, transaction validation, exception handling, compliance monitoring, and decision support, enhancing operational efficiency.
- Designed a modular, multi-tenant architecture covering HR, finance, payroll, procurement and operational workflows.
- Built initial product foundation, comprising application shell, core enterprise data models, and Veda design system, enabling scalable product development.
- Led product discovery, prototype development, technical roadmap planning and preparation for design-partner validation and funding.
Independent Consultant
Self Employed
Bangalore
01.2025 - Current
- Working with select early-stage and growth-stage companies as a fractional CTO, partnering with founders and leadership teams on enterprise SaaS architecture, platform strategy, and engineering organization design.
- Modernized web and mobile stacks, strengthened analytics and reporting capabilities, improved delivery discipline, supported senior technical hiring, mentored engineering managers, and guided teams from reactive execution to predictable, sustainable delivery.
- Analyzed client needs to develop tailored consulting strategies.
- Facilitated workshops to enhance team collaboration and communication skills.
- Researched industry trends to provide informed recommendations for clients.
Senior Director of Engineering - Platform & Applications
ZETA
Bangalore
05.2021 - 08.2024
- Led and scaled a 60+ member engineering organisation building enterprise-grade banking SaaS platforms used by Tier-1 financial institutions.
- Designed and rolled out a platform-first operating model, enabling a threefold increase in product capabilities without proportional headcount growth, while improving consistency and confidence in delivery across teams.
- Conceptualized and scaled Hercules, an internal developer platform that improved developer productivity by 2.5× and reduced time-to-market by approximately 40% for core banking features.
- Transitioned to modular web architectures, enabling independent building, deployment, and scaling of complex banking modules across multiple product lines.
- Led development of centralized analytics and reporting platforms, including a Report Center and Power Center, enabling self-service dashboards and operational insights for internal teams and enterprise customers.
- Ensured developer agility, full-stack developer excellence, platform reliability, delivery execution, and long-term organisational health.
- Collaborated with data engineering and product teams to enhance data accuracy and timeliness, significantly reducing manual reporting and ad-hoc operational analysis.
- Established career frameworks, leadership development paths, and succession planning, resulting in 90%+ retention of senior technical leaders during a period of rapid organizational growth.
Software Architect - Web and Analytics Platforms
ATHENAHEALTH
Bangalore
12.2017 - 05.2021
- Led the architecture and delivery of the Athena Insights Platform, a self-service analytics and reporting system enabling product teams and healthcare stakeholders to access real-time clinical, operational, and financial insights.
- Designed and scaled high-throughput, service-oriented APIs enabling secure access to a longitudinal healthcare data platform, with a focus on performance, reliability, auditability, and clean data access patterns.
- Collaborated with data engineering, product management, and user experience teams to integrate analytics and reporting capabilities into product workflows, ensuring alignment with stakeholder needs.
- Worked extensively with US-based product, architecture, and executive leadership to define and execute multi-year technical roadmaps, and led distributed engineering teams across India and the United States.
- Modernized large-scale healthcare software platforms supporting clinical, patient engagement, and revenue cycle workflows across athena ecosystem, enhancing user experience and operational efficiency.
Director of Engineering - Web and Analytics Platforms
COLLECTIVE
Bangalore
04.2017 - 11.2017
- Built and led an enterprise analytics platform supporting large-scale reporting and visualization for internal teams and external SaaS stakeholders.
- Oversaw end-to-end architecture, ensuring delivery quality and operational stability amid rapid product evolution.
- Established engineering ownership and quality standards, enabling support for growing data volumes and diverse reporting use cases.
- Worked closely with product and business stakeholders to translate reporting and analytics requirements into scalable, modular platform capabilities.
- Mentored senior engineers and technical leads, enhancing architectural decision-making and consistency across analytics workflows.
Senior UI Engineering Manager - Seller Platform
FLIPKART
Bangalore
12.2014 - 02.2017
- Led and grew a 35+ member engineering organization across multiple scrum teams delivering customer-facing engagement platforms at scale across Flipkart's e-commerce ecosystem.
- Owned end-to-end delivery for high-traffic web and mobile experiences, ensuring stability and performance during peak load events like major sales and seasonal campaigns for 100K+ active users.
- Collaborated with product and user experience leadership to translate business goals into actionable engineering roadmaps while mentoring senior engineers and developing emerging engineering managers.
- Built frontend platform frameworks enabling consistent UI development across teams, reducing duplication and improving development speed and maintainability.
- Introduced continuous integration, test-driven development, and structured code reviews, transforming release cadence from monthly cycles to daily deployments, enhancing quality and stability in production.
Education
Certificate Program in Leadership with AI -
Indian School of Business
Hyderabad05-2025
Master of Computer Applications -
University of Calicut
Vatakara10-2004
BSc - Computer Science
University of Calicut
Kozhikode12-1999
Skills
- AI Product Development
- SaaS architecture
- Platform scalability
- Platform & Web Modernization
- Enterprise Application Architecture
- Enterprise architecture
- Analytics platforms
- Cloud management
- Modular design
- Engineering management
- Technical mentorship
- Team leadership
- Engineering leadership
- Product development
- Solution delivery
- Domain Experience
- Strategic planning
- Cross-functional teamwork
- Staff management
- Staff management
Earlier Career
- Principal Software Engineer, Informatica,02/2012 to 12/2014
- Principal Software Engineer, Yahoo, 06/2010 to 02/2012
- Principal Software Engineer, AOL, 04/2007 to 06/2010
- Sr Web Technologist, AOL, 06/2005 to 12/2006
- Sr Developer, Synergy Images, 06/2004, 05/2005
- Web Developer, Logix Micro Systems, 11/2003, 06/2004
Executive Profile
Senior engineering leader with 23+ years of experience modernizing large-scale web application stacks and building high-availability, enterprise-grade SaaS platforms across healthcare, banking technology, and e-commerce. Proven track record of leading large, multi-team engineering organizations (30-60+ engineers) and transforming legacy applications into modular, scalable, platform-based architectures that accelerate product velocity and developer productivity. Deep expertise in platform engineering, microservices, modular web architectures, and internal developer platforms, with a strong focus on enabling teams to ship faster while improving reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability. Led multiple platform modernization initiatives that significantly reduced time-to-market and improved engineering efficiency across distributed teams., Engineering Leadership & Execution, Domain Experience, Platform & Web Modernization, GenAI & Developer Productivity, Analytics & Reporting Platforms, People, Culture & Organization Design
Timeline
CTO
Stealth Startup
08.2025 - Current
Independent Consultant
Self Employed
01.2025 - Current
Senior Director of Engineering - Platform & Applications
ZETA
05.2021 - 08.2024
Software Architect - Web and Analytics Platforms
ATHENAHEALTH
12.2017 - 05.2021
Director of Engineering - Web and Analytics Platforms
COLLECTIVE
04.2017 - 11.2017
Senior UI Engineering Manager - Seller Platform
FLIPKART
12.2014 - 02.2017
Certificate Program in Leadership with AI -
Indian School of Business
Master of Computer Applications -
University of Calicut
BSc - Computer Science
University of Calicut