About

Lakshminarayanan S is a highly skilled Group Development Manager at Intuit, with over 22 years of experience in the IT industry. He is a strong leader with excellent interpersonal skills and a proven track record of building high-performance teams. Currently, Lakshminarayanan manages the product development team at Intuit that works on Kubernetes and micro frontend platforms. Prior to this role, he led the SRE team that managed Intuit's flagship product, Quickbooks. Before joining Intuit, Lakshminarayanan held application operation engineer and system administrator roles at Cisco and AOL, respectively. He also worked as a scientist at the Government R&D organization CSIR in the field of food research for over three years and in nuclear medicine for over five years. Lakshminarayanan's current role at Intuit involves leading the teams that develop a modern SaaS platform for development teams to host their microservices and infrastructure for micro frontend. The Intuit Modern SaaS Platform increases development velocity and delivers delightful experiences to customers faster by removing friction during the development process and reducing exposure to security and reliability risks. The platform is based on advanced cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes and runs on AWS cloud. Lakshminarayanan has received several awards for his contributions to the cloud-native ecosystem, including the "Top End User Award" at KubeCon2019 in Barcelona. He has also worked on several projects, including architecting, designing, implementing, and supporting cloud-based infrastructure and its solutions. Lakshminarayanan holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Madura College. His tech stack includes AWS, infra, Kubernetes, Frontend, Research Scientist, SRE, Microservices, and Web. He is a highly experienced professional with a strong passion for technology and innovation.