BUILDTHINK · BY SAI KRISHNA
Engineering leader, hands-on builder and problem solver with 20+ years across enterprise platforms, startups, cloud systems, data pipelines and AI-assisted software engineering.
WORK
Manager, Software Engineering · Hands-on
Leading enterprise platforms while staying close to architecture, coding, cloud, APIs and data engineering. Built and modernized ingestion and retrieval systems, including a pipeline reduced from 7 days to 30 minutes for 1M+ monthly records.
Founding Engineer → Technical Architect → Engineering Lead
Joined as the first engineer and built the product from the ground up. For an extended period I was the sole engineer, owning architecture, backend, frontend, data models, infrastructure and delivery before hiring, mentoring and building the engineering team.
Built hybrid mobile applications for both Android and iOS using Ionic, extending the product into field workflows including QR-code-based tracking.
Lead Engineer · Startup
Worked across Chromium/macOS engineering, C++ and Objective-C, Python services and networking. Built SPDY-based encrypted proxy infrastructure with Node.js and TCP/IP tuning.
LxLabs · Unitus · Innominds · Solugenix · TLI · HCL
Started close to the systems layer with LxLabs: Linux administration, C, PHP, Apache, DNS, email infrastructure, networking and server management. Later moved through enterprise application development, cloud, Python and open-source work including OpenStack Keystone.
BUILD
I like working close to the problem: understand the system, build the difficult parts, scale them, and keep learning. These are a few chapters that shaped how I engineer.
Led architecture and engineering direction for a high-volume enterprise fax platform handling millions of faxes daily. Worked with Enterprise Architecture and cross-functional engineering teams to design scalable APIs, vendor integrations, processing services and resilient infrastructure.
Integrated third-party Consensus services, internal .NET APIs and Kafka-based components, with Kubernetes supporting scalable processing. Balanced architecture governance with hands-on technical investigation, production troubleshooting and engineering leadership.
Modernized a large-scale retrieval ingestion workflow processing 1M+ monthly records, reducing processing time from seven days to about 30 minutes through Python, Airflow, APIs and Salesforce Bulk API 2.0.
Joined as the first engineer and built the product from the ground up. For an extended period I was the sole engineer, owning architecture, backend, frontend, data models, infrastructure and delivery before hiring and growing the engineering team.
Built hybrid mobile applications for both Android and iOS using Ionic, extending the platform into field workflows including QR-code-based tracking.
Adapted an existing Google-engineered SPDY proxy implementation for Epic Privacy Browser, then extended, tuned and scaled it on the company's infrastructure. Worked hands-on with Node.js, TCP/IP, TLS/encryption and Linux/AWS systems to provide an in-house encrypted proxy capability.
View related code on GitHub →Worked on the early Keystone effort around identity, authentication and authorization infrastructure in Python. The project became OpenStack's Identity service, providing authentication, authorization and service discovery for the OpenStack ecosystem.
Explore GitHub →Started my career close to the systems layer at LxLabs, working on LXAdmin. Hands-on work included Linux, C, PHP, Apache, DNS, email servers, networking, server administration and early virtualization concepts — often working through keyboard-driven Linux environments.
Currently building hands-on experience with AI agents, RAG architectures, tool integration and LLM-driven workflows. I'm interested in the engineering beneath the model: context, retrieval, orchestration, evaluation, APIs and production reliability.
A product I'm building around maintenance and operations workflows, exploring SaaS architecture, multi-tenancy, APIs and practical product engineering outside the day job.
THINK
NOW
My current focus is the intersection of engineering leadership and hands-on development: AI-assisted software engineering, cloud platforms, data pipelines, APIs and building products outside the day job.
The title may change over time. The approach doesn't: understand the problem, think through the system, build it, and make it work.
CONTACT
I prefer to keep my email and phone private. Connect through LinkedIn or GitHub.