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title: "Srinivasa Raghavan Kandala - Director of Engineering in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
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# Srinivasa Raghavan Kandala on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Leadership \| Platform Scale \| Architecture Modernization \| AI Transformation \| Cloud Optimization \| Product & Platform Growth \| HealthTech

## About

I build engineering organizations and platforms that scale\. Over the last 23 years, I’ve worked across software engineering, architecture modernization, platform evolution, and engineering leadership—with a strong focus on converting technology investments into measurable business outcomes\. Today, I lead engineering initiatives across platform scale, architecture transformation, operational excellence, and AI\-enabled software delivery\. My experience spans building resilient engineering systems, enabling business growth through product capabilities, modernizing technology stacks, and improving delivery effectiveness across teams\. Key Highlights : • Scaled platform throughput by \~100%, maintained 99\.9% uptime • Reduced infrastructure costs through cloud and platform optimization initiatives • Spearheaded architecture modernization through microservices, event\-driven systems and micro frontends • Enabled business growth through new platform capabilities, revenue\-enabling integrations, and improved operational efficiency • Spearheaded AI\-assisted engineering practices delivering 25%\+ productivity improvements Leadership areas: Engineering Leadership \| Platform Engineering \| Architecture \| Delivery Excellence \| Reliability \| Cloud Optimization \| AI\-enabled SDLC \| Product Engineering Open to conversations around: Senior Engineering Manager \| Director of Engineering \| Senior Director of Engineering roles in Bengaluru and remote\-first environments\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

claude code

## Work experience

Director of Engineering at HealthPlix, Apr 2024 \- Jun 2026 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Associate Director \- Engineering at HealthPlix, Jul 2021 \- Oct 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Engineering Manager \| Director of Technical Excellence at Kantar, Oct 2018 \- Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bangalore, India

Product Development Manager at Gain Theory, Apr 2017 \- Mar 2018 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Software Engineer at Mapunity, Apr 2008 \- Mar 2017 · 9 yrs, I am into web application development using Ruby on Rails, JQuery, Prototype, ExtJS\. Indian Language tools is the other area of interest\.

Software Developer at Tecdost Software Pvt Ltd, Jul 2006 \- Mar 2008 · 1 yr 9 mos, Into web application development using ROR, JQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous and ExtJS

## Education

Master of Science \(MS\), software Systems, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

B\.E, Computer Science, Bharathidasan University

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