Srinath Ananthakrishnan
Problem Solver at Sierra
Union City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSrinath Ananthakrishnan is a seasoned infrastructure-focused software engineer with 14 years of experience building and operating large-scale, reliable systems from networking stacks to global service discovery. He’s led high-impact migrations and sunsettings—most recently sharding and replacing a 50k+ node service discovery cluster at Stripe to eliminate vendor lock-in and save millions—while also driving OS migrations and FinOps strategies. His background spans low-level kernel and data-plane work through cloud platform and auth systems, including building geo-replicated directories and JWT/OAuth tenant auth used across hundreds of teams at Salesforce. Comfortable both architecting long-term technical strategy and diving into implementation, he’s shipped critical features like Heroku’s next-gen router and TLS termination and designed compression and accounting in block storage. Based in Union City, CA, Srinath pairs deep systems expertise with pragmatic product thinking and a knack for quietly coordinating cross-team migrations and operational turnarounds.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBachelors Electronics and Communication, Bachelors Electronics and Communication at Madras Institute of Technology
English, Tamil, Hindi, Sanskrit
Stackoverflow
263reputation
13kreached
1answer
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Github Skills (45)
npm-cli10
heroku-cli10
heroku10
buildpack10
cli10
programming-language9
golang9
go8
interpreter8
odin7
compiler7
kernel6
lex6
checksum6
bison6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
borncrusader/.dotfiles
Mar 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:166 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 1 month
borncrusader/n-dent
Oct 2011 - Oct 2011
Contributions:42 commits in 22 days
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