Surendhar Reddy

CV

About me

Software engineer who finds joy and take pride in developing reliable technology solutions that are modular, maintainable and scalable.

I worked with multiple startups and technology firms developing production software with Node.js, React/React Native and infrastructure with cloud-native technologies.

Work experience

Tech guy at Atlas (YC S21)
Jan, 2021 — Present

> TODO… busy coding 👨🏻‍💻

Software Engineer at Grain
Apr, 2018 — Dec, 2020

Grain allowed me to grow into multiple roles. I joined Grain in 2018 to work on the mobile/web apps and gradually moved deep into stack doing site reliability engineering.

Mobile/Web

  • Worked with product and design team to deliver delightful and reliable mobile apps.
  • Worked with product and marketing team to integrate third-party SDKs (notifications, deep-linking, campaign attribution) and improved direct customer engagement.
  • Developed and maintained unit and integration testing suites to verify critical user flows.
  • Streamlined release process by adopting trunk-based development and continuously deployed new builds with Fastlane and Microsoft’s CodePush.
  • Developed a CLI to automate onboarding, manage secrets, and configurations across release channels.

SRE/DevOps

  • Developed and maintained a secure and scalable infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform using Terraform.
  • Dockerized Ruby on Rails apps and developed CI/CD pipelines.
  • Worked closely with Crayon Data, a data consulting company we hired to build data analytics and warehousing infrastructure.

Software Engineer at Fresh Qube Technologies
Dec, 2017 — Mar, 2018

Worked with a small product team to build a range of mobile and web-based products for SMEs owners.

  • Developed a white-labeled cross-platform mobile app for SME owners to run and manage an online business.
  • Developed a shared design library and reusable modules, allowing us to deliver features across platforms.
  • Improved release processes by developing CI/CD pipelines with tools like CircleCI and Microsoft’s CodePush.

Software Engineer at Fresh Brains Sep, 2016 — Nov, 2017

Worked with few international clients in the retail and F&B industry.

  • Developed an app for a UK based client to standardize and manage employee operations.
  • Developed a mobile and web-based product for a food startup in Hyderabad.
  • Learned and started adopting the best engineering practices such as continuous integration, test-driven development.

Technical skills

  • Programming Languages — JavaScript, TypeScript, Bash
  • SRE/DevOps — Docker, Terraform, Ansible
  • Mobile Development — React Native, Redux, Firebase, Fastlane, CodePush
  • Web/Backend Development — Node.js, GraphQL, React, Redux
  • Databases — PostgresSQL, MongoDB (Working knowledge)

Education

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (Hyderabad)
B.Tech Electronics and Communications Engineering

Indian School of Business
Technology Entrepreneurship Program

Awards & Recognition

  • Recipient of MIT Global Startup Workshop (Hyderabad, 2016) scholarship
  • Recipient of Linux Foundation’s KubeCon (Austin, 2017) scholarship
  • Recipient of Google India challenge scholarship
  • Finalist at Adafruit and Mathwork’s Student Pet Robotics Challenge
  • Finalist at Intel IoT Challenge

Volunteering

  • Student Partner for Microsoft
  • Ambassador for Auth0
  • Mentor at Udacity (React nano degree)