Sathvik Shanmugam is a Lead Software Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building full-stack web products at Freshworks, where he progressed from intern to lead and repeatedly earned spot awards for delivery and impact. He has led cross-product technical efforts, owned urgent business-aligned squads, delivered multiple EPICs bug-free, and mentored junior engineers while shipping features across frontend and backend stacks. Notable wins include streamlining large-scale plan migrations via automation (including a self-serve Chrome extension) and rapid ramp-up on unfamiliar codebases to drive on-time releases. Based in Chennai, he combines a growth mindset—learning from failures and iterating quickly—with a practical knack for turning ideas into production-ready systems that reduce operational burden.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
SSLC, Central Board of Secondary School, 10, SSLC, Central Board of Secondary School, 10 at Jawahar Higher Secondary School, CBSE
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, UG, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, UG at St. Joseph's College Of Engineering
HSE, Mathematical Biology, 12, HSE, Mathematical Biology, 12 at SKV Higher Secondary School
Contributions:72 commits, 4 PRs, 61 pushes in 10 months
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