About

Sankaranarayanan Mahadevan is a seasoned full-stack engineer with over 10 years of relevant experience. He possesses strong analytical, leadership, and collaboration skills, which have enabled him to build products and platforms at scale. Currently, Sankaranarayanan works as a Senior Engineering Manager at Rippling, where he manages a team of 9 engineers and is responsible for their growth, code reviews, mentorship, recruiting, interviewing, and customer support. He is also responsible for making decisions and shipping features for the parts of the product he owns. Sankaranarayanan's key challenges at Rippling include domain complexity, increasing operational efficiency, and managing the tech stack. He has been able to tackle these challenges effectively, especially the domain complexity of the insurance business, which is a complex domain with federal and state regulations. He has also been able to increase operational efficiency by automating a lot of the ops work, which has helped Rippling scale the business without having to invest significantly in ops. Sankaranarayanan's past experience includes working as a Manager and Staff Software Engineer at Visa, where he led teams of software engineers and developed tools and processes for Engineering Excellence. He also championed security and helped identify and resolve web security issues proactively. Sankaranarayanan has a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from PES Institute of Technology (South Campus) and completed his ICSE from Bangalore Public School. Sankaranarayanan's tech stack includes expertise in Senior Software Engineering, Javascript, AWS, Python, Django, MongoDB, Jenkins, Flask, CI/CD, NodeJS, DevOps, Ethereum, Web, Integration, Frontend, Backend, MySQL, and Azure. He is passionate about engineering excellence and developer productivity and is always looking for new opportunities to grow and learn.