Headline

Engineering Lead

About

I'm a backend and platform engineer with 11 years of experience building systems that scale — from 0-to-1 at early-stage startups (YFret, Quince) to 10-to-100 at high-growth companies (Unacademy, Abnormal AI). Along the way I've led engineering teams of up to 5, architected a deployment system that became the org-wide release safety blueprint at Abnormal AI (presented at PyCon India 2025), and driven infrastructure efficiency at multi-million dollar scale. I care about systems that are simple to operate, teams that ship with confidence, and using AI to remove toil rather than add complexity. Technical Blog: medium.com/@sherlockcodes Stack Overflow: stackoverflow.com/users/2588059/hari-krishnan GitHub: github.com/sherlockcodes

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

antigravity

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

Work experience

Founder at Stealth Mode, Apr 2026 - Present · 7 mos, Behavioural AI product

All things tech / Co-founder at DhruvaLabs, Jan 2026 - Present · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Health and well-being at Career Break, Sep 2025 - Dec 2025 · 4 mos, Took a deliberate pause to focus on health

Engineering Technical Lead at Abnormal Security, Jul 2023 - Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Foundation engineer in India's Platform and Infrastructure team.

Engineering Lead at Unacademy, Apr 2022 - Jun 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Software Engineer at Unacademy, Sep 2020 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Education

Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), computer applications, Thiagarajar College of Engineering

bachelor of computer science, Computer Science, P.K.N Arts and Science

Public links

github: https://github.com/sherlockcodes

medium: https://medium.com/@sherlockcodes