About

Surjith Meethal is an Associate Director - Engineering at Myntra with over 15 years of relevant experience in web development and front-end focused full-stack development. He has worked in different environments, including an established company and a startup. Surjith is a self-motivated and self-taught professional who likes to find solutions to problems and build products for scale. He is passionate about user experience, usability, and uses his technical knowledge to create exciting and fast digital experiences. In his current role at Myntra, Surjith leads a couple of growing teams of engineers who are building next-generation purchase experience and an API platform that helps standardize APIs and expedite the development and release of products and services. He provides technical guidance or support for the development or troubleshooting of systems, evaluates current or emerging technologies, and collaborates with software developers/engineering leads to select appropriate design solutions. Surjith verifies stability, interoperability, portability, security, or scalability of the system architecture and documents design specifications and other system-related information. He defines and analyzes objectives, scope, issues, and organizational impact of information systems, develops/approves project plans, schedules, and occasionally does hands-on coding. Surjith evaluates existing systems to determine their effectiveness and suggests changes to meet the growing tech ecosystem by ensuring the right tech choices are made, which is aligned to organizational goals. He has worked closely with Product Managers and Business to define a long-term roadmap. In his past roles at Myntra, Surjith led multiple revamps of Myntra's website and mobile website and worked with multiple stakeholders to implement high revenue-driving constructs that increased traffic and revenue. He reviewed and managed Myntra's production server and caching configs for Website/PWA, ensured timely delivery in a high-quality manner, and ensured code quality through the code review process and peer programming. Surjith also hired and mentored engineers in technical and architectural aspects, planned and estimated projects, and scaled systems for high revenue days. He developed the first version of the API gateway using Nodejs. Surjith holds a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) degree from Sikkim Manipal University and a Diploma in IT from Nettur Technical Training Foundation. His tech stack includes NodeJS, Javascript, Web, Senior Software Engineer, Frontend, Mobile, Software Engineer, test, Redis, PHP, MongoDB, Microservices, and Azure. As an Engineering, Surjith cares about