Aravind Srinivasan
Engineering Leader | I lead engineering teams that build and ship AI-native products from 0 to 1| Ex-Head of Software Development, Anthriq (BCI) | Building Sektrr & Korrido
Bengaluru
6+ years of work experience
Mar 20266 mosPresent
Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
• Own the full stack of building Sektrr solo, from product strategy and engineering to fundraising conversations and go-to-market, operating as the default owner of every function until it's handed off.
• Design and ship the core product end to end, writing the frontend and backend myself, then loop in customer feedback the same week to steer the next build cycle.
• Brought on an initial base of paying customers by running discovery, pricing and onboarding personally, treating every early customer conversation as a product spec.
• Set the technical architecture and stack decisions from day one, optimizing for speed of iteration over premature scale, so the platform can bend as fast as the market feedback comes in.
• Operate with a founder's bias for shipping over process, moving between engineering sprints, product calls and customer support in the same day, the same discipline that scaled engineering orgs at Anthriq and Houseware.
Nov 20241 yr 4 mosFeb 2026
Leading technical programs and engineering delivery for Anthriq and nexstem.ai, a brain-computer interface platform building the next frontier of human-machine interaction.
• Owned the engineering roadmap across 3+ concurrent workstreams, translating company-level BCI product goals into scoped, sequenced deliverables for every quarter.
• Scaled the engineering team up to 10 engineers, building the hiring pipeline, structured interview loops and onboarding playbooks from scratch.
• Cut delivery delays 20-40% across product cycles by rebuilding sprint planning, retrospectives and dependency tracking into a single governance rhythm.
• Increased sprint delivery efficiency to up to 90%, holding that number through team churn and multiple company-level reorganizations.
• Supported deployment and pilot programs across multiple countries by coordinating engineering readiness with regional go-to-market timelines.
• Acted as the primary technical liaison to leadership and external stakeholders, translating hard hardware, firmware and software constraints into program timelines executives could plan against.
• Ran OKR-based planning across engineering, design, QA and business functions, keeping quarterly goals visible and accountable at the team level.
• Managed stakeholder relationships across engineering, product and business, resolving competing priorities before they became roadmap risk.
• Built the engineering best-practices playbook, covering code review, release process and on-call ownership, adopted across the team.
• Mentored engineers into more senior ownership roles as the team scaled, creating a bench that could run workstreams independently.
• Partnered directly with the founders on engineering strategy through a period of significant organizational change, keeping delivery steady while the company itself was shifting shape.
Apr 20222 yrs 8 mosNov 2024
• Spearheaded 4 high-stakes, cross-functional projects through a major company pivot, each requiring me to realign scope, stakeholders and delivery plans mid-flight.
• Architected and shipped production full-stack systems (React, Node.js) powering Anthriq's BCI and neurotechnology platform for real users, not just internal demos.
• Took on sales, marketing and direct founder support when the pivot stretched the team thin, treating role boundaries as secondary to getting the company through.
• Managed multiple stakeholders and teams simultaneously across engineering, design and business, coordinating priorities that shifted week to week during the pivot.
• Set technical standards and coding conventions that the wider engineering team adopted, reducing review friction and inconsistency across the codebase.
• Worked hands-on with TypeScript and Kotlin alongside React and Node.js, moving across the stack as each project demanded.
• Collaborated cross-functionally with product, design and QA to define technical requirements and estimate delivery timelines that actually held.
• Built the technical judgment that later became the foundation for stepping into the Head of Software Development role.
Jan 20224 mosApr 2022
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Independently scoped and drove Houseware's SOC2 Type II certification end to end, in 2-3 months, aligning security, engineering and legal across every workstream.
• Directly supported Houseware's acquisition by LaunchDarkly, with the certification work feeding straight into the due diligence process.
• Improved deployment reliability and audit readiness by implementing infrastructure-as-code practices with Terraform and Drata.ai.
• Consulted on broader DevOps strategy beyond the certification scope, advising on infrastructure decisions that outlasted my time there.
• Partnered with product and design to ship UX fixes addressing core user friction in the Modern Data Stack workflow, working outside my core mandate when it mattered.
Oct 20214 mosJan 2022
Singapore
• One of the company's first 5 hires, joining early enough to shape both the product and the team culture around it.
• Scoped, designed and shipped Konfirmity's next-generation SaaS suite within a 3-month program timeline, working across product, design and engineering myself.
• Took the product from MVP to a properly architected, production-ready platform, rebuilding the technical foundation while the business kept moving.
• Directly enabled the newly formed sales team to close its first set of customers by delivering a platform that could stand up to real evaluation.
• Translated compliance requirements into a coherent product roadmap, working closely with leadership to keep scope realistic against a hard deadline.
• Coordinated across product, engineering and leadership as the connective layer during a period when the company had few dedicated functions.
Dec 20191 yr 10 mosSep 2021
Greater Bengaluru Area
• Founding engineer, taking a global compliance automation platform from 0 to 1 across product, design, engineering and sales.
• Served 5-10 clients across Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong, with growing interest from customers across the wider APAC region.
• Scaled the engineering team from 0 to 5-6 engineers over 1.8 years, hiring and structuring the team as the product matured.
• Led both product design and product development simultaneously, owning the full loop from user research to shipped feature.
• Designed and delivered an AI-powered compliance assistant, adopted across multiple client compliance teams as a core part of their workflow.
• Managed a cross-functional team spanning product, engineering and sales, driving execution across several concurrent initiatives at once.
• Owned the full 0-to-1 product lifecycle, ideation, design, engineering, sales and delivery, as one of the platform's founding builders.
Aravind’s AI Stack
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science
Mepco Schlenk Engineering College
20164 yrs2020
12th Grade, Computer Science
TVS matriculation higher Secondary School
200511 yrs2016
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