Shruti Krishnagiri

About

Founder/CTO who built and shipped a consumer subscription-bundling platform end-to-end (architecture, implementation, testing) and scaled it to thousands of customers and major partners. Previously led a major reliability overhaul at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for a Google-Docs-like ed-tech product—boosted observability, introduced incident management, and migrated to a Docker-based scalable architecture. Heavy user of AI tools (Cursor/Claude) for development, testing, and code review, with a strong bias toward lightweight, fast-moving execution.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Founder/CTO who single-handedly designed and shipped a production product with thousands of customers and large partners
• Strong testing discipline (tests for every change + system tests)
• Pragmatic architecture iteration—recognized impractical design, re-architected for scalability with expert input
• Led reliability turnaround for an ed-tech product: improved observability/logging, load simulation, and migrated from single-instance to Docker-based scalable architecture
• Built an incident management system to stabilize production operations
• Effective people manager using action-oriented weekly 1:1s and targeted leadership assignments to accelerate engineer growth and visibility
• Lean, high-velocity delivery approach (async plans + quick whiteboarding; avoids heavy design-doc process)