Kirushanth Sakthivel
VP Of Engineering at StartupFuel
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKirushanth Sakthivel is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader currently serving as VP of Engineering at Laurel Road, where he has driven engineering strategy and delivery since 2018. With a background spanning software development, architecture, and product design, he previously led engineering as Director at Laurel Road and has a track record of building scalable fintech platforms. He brings over a decade of experience across roles at Top Hat, Pivotal, and as an advisor to StartupFuel, blending hands-on coding with strategic product outcomes. He holds a BASc in Nanotechnology Engineering from the University of Waterloo, a combination that informs his systems thinking and cross-disciplinary approach to engineering challenges. Based in Toronto, he bridges North American engineering teams with a mindset focused on delivering reliable, customer-focused software at scale.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Nanotechnology Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Nanotechnology Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (36)
graph10
html510
dokku10
heroku10
buildpack10
lifecycle9
javascript9
ruby9
containers9
canvas9
mvc9
rails9
word-cloud9
docker9
devops9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
polkaswitch/polkaswitch-ui
Mar 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 reviews, 166 commits, 1 PR in 4 months
kirushanths/dotfiles
Oct 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:52 commits, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
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