Summary
Sharadha Ramakrishnan is an engineering coach and seasoned technology leader with 13 years of experience building distributed systems, data platforms, and developer-focused infrastructure. She has led engineering at Yelp—owning data and analytics platforms, experimentation tooling, and multi-region job queueing—and now guides teams at Digits to improve delivery and craft. Comfortable in both hands-on engineering and strategic leadership, she has a strong background in DevOps, data transport, and platform reliability across AWS and containerized environments. Her career spans startups and larger orgs, from founding product-focused engineering efforts to scaling platform teams, and she writes candidly about parenting an autistic child—bringing empathy and human-centered coaching into technical leadership.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Computer Science, Professional Computer Science at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension
Integrated Master of Science Software Engineering, Integrated Master of Science Software Engineering at PSG College of Technology