Summary
Elayamani Krishnamoorthi is a principal engineer and engineering leader with 14+ years of experience building scalable products, teams, and infrastructure across startups and high-growth companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently a Principal Engineer at AtoB, he blends hands-on development with architectural leadership to drive cloud-native infrastructure, performance optimization, and cost efficiency. At Lassie, he led a cost-optimization program that cut cloud spend by 45% and rebuilt scraper infrastructure to improve reliability from 60% to 99% while enabling rapid growth. Earlier at ZeroDown, he was the #2 engineer who built the core home search platform to 1M+ monthly users and spearheaded SEO-driven growth from zero to 30K daily visitors, plus redesigning MLS data pipelines. His career foundations at The D. E. Shaw Group and Zenefits gave him deep experience with real-time data systems and scalable platforms, and his interests now encompass distributed systems, SEO-driven growth, and applying AI in product engineering.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Computer Networks, Programming concepts, Systems, B.Tech, Computer Networks, Programming concepts, Systems at College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai
English, Tamil