Archana Sankaranarayanan
Senior Engineering Manager at dbt Labs
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArchana Sankaranarayanan is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Palo Alto with 12 years of experience building delightful front-end experiences and production-grade platforms across startups and tech giants. She blends an HCI-backed focus on user research and design systems with hands-on engineering—specializing in styleguides, performance optimization, and modern front-end stacks like Polymer, PostCSS and Next.js. At OpenSea she led Search, Web Platform and Mobile teams to deliver a global media pipeline and performance wins (median fetch ~100ms, ~70% faster media-heavy pages) while establishing localization, content metadata and high-throughput partner APIs. At Google she shaped Assistant personality and built research infrastructure to test conversational UX at scale, and at dbt Labs she now leads IDE, CLI and AI-assisted coding efforts. An active contributor to Spinnaker’s deck UI improvements, she combines product-minded leadership with deep implementation chops and a penchant for turning design systems into measurable business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Human Computer Interaction, Master of Science - MS Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Technology Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology Computer Science at PSG College of Technology
Github Skills (7)
html10
css10
lessc10
front-end-development10
react10
ui-design9
fest4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
spinnaker/deck
Aug 2017 - Apr 2019
Management UI for Spinnaker
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:72 commits, 107 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Archana focused on improving the UI of the Spinnaker deck application. Their contributions include fixing element positioning, adding padding for a more consistent look, and creating and integrating a style guide. They also added a new spinner style and integrated it into the infrastructure search screen, as well as making the main Spinnaker header responsive across devices. In addition, the user worked on attaching selectors to input types to enhance the user experience.
reactmanagement-uispinnakerreactjsapollo-client
archana-s/deck
Jul 2017 - Feb 2019
Management UI for Spinnaker
Contributions:136 pushes, 72 branches in 1 year 6 months
reactmanagement-uiomsspinnakerdrift
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