Summary
Elayamani Krishnamoorthi is a Principal Engineer with 14+ years of experience building performance-first backend systems, cost-optimized cloud infrastructure, and high-throughput data pipelines across startups and high-growth companies. He has repeatedly reduced cloud spend and improved reliability at scale—most recently cutting scraper costs 10x and lifting reliability to 99% at Lassie and leading a 45% cloud-cost reduction program. At ZeroDown he built the core home search platform that scaled to over 1M monthly users and drove SEO-led growth to 30K daily visitors, while modernizing data stores and real-time crawlers. Comfortable from low-latency market-data systems at D. E. Shaw to GCP, BigTable, Elasticsearch, and applied AI initiatives, he blends deep systems engineering with product-minded leadership and hands-on mentorship. Notably, he favors replacing brittle in-memory caches with scalable, cost-effective datastore designs—trading short-term latency hacks for long-term operational reliability.
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
English, Tamil