Summary
Abhinav Srivastava is a product-minded software engineer and platform leader with almost a decade of experience spanning backend systems, SRE, DevOps, and engineering leadership. He is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Rippling, after previously shaping scale and reliability as Principal Engineer at WorkIndia, where he mentored 15+ engineers and drove initiatives that supported 50M+ daily users, boosted reliability by 70%, cut change failure rate by 50%, and increased developer velocity by 30%. His career includes hands-on work across high-throughput catalogs, job delivery, e-commerce, ad-tech, and notification systems, with leadership in platform engineering and data engineering. He specializes in scalable backend architecture, observability, and developer experience, using Python, Rails, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, AWS, Prometheus, and Docker. Based in Bengaluru, India, he combines a strong product sense with a penchant for building durable, auditable systems and mentoring teams to own impact. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Information and Communication Technology from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology.
8 years of coding experience