About

Anand Girish Parthasarathy is a passionate software engineering leader with over 31 years of relevant experience in delivering key customer successes. He is currently an Engineering Manager at Facebook, where he is responsible for building self-managed infrastructure. Anand is a mentor and a team player who has the ability to grow energetic teams, people, and project portfolio management. He has a reputation for delivering projects with agility and driving new product strategies. Anand is an inquisitive and passionate engineer with hands-on development management skills. He has the ability to zoom out for a big picture view and zoom in for details on a need basis. He is adept at mapping solutions across problem spaces to leverage his extensive work experience across defense, networking, embedded systems, software as a service, real-time and distributed systems. Anand is an excellent communicator who can cater to different audiences from customers, engineers, C-suite executives, and public forums. He enjoys simplifying complex concepts and solutions and believes that 10 lines of code removed while retaining functionality is better than adding one. Anand has experience in defining the product, assessing and evaluating customer needs, prioritizing asks, defining and fine-tuning the roadmap. He creates actionable tasks for improving operational efficiency and scale. Anand is known for making firm decisions with solid reasoning and has the ability to change course when presented with convincing data to the contrary. He challenges the status quo when in need of solutions or innovations. Anand's past experiences include working as a Senior Engineering Manager at OpenDNS, where he delivered the Umbrella Secure Web Gateway cloud solution and led the Early Field Trials for Customers and Onboarding of new customers. He was also a Senior Product Manager at Stockpile, where he delivered the FinTech Platform to serve web and mobile consumers for democratizing investments to masses. Anand has experience in building platforms for web and mobile to power disruptive innovations in the fintech space. Anand's tech stack includes senior software engineering, infra, AWS, web, Redis, Python, Docker, MySQL, Kafka, Flask, UI, product management, mobile, and microservices. He is a passionate engineer who loves to automate and is always looking to simplify complex concepts.