Summary
Sriram Parthasarathy is a seasoned engineering leader with nine years of experience scaling teams and shipping large-scale distributed backend systems from founding engineer to Director of Engineering at Harness. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he blends hands-on technical delivery with people leadership, coaching high-performing, cross-location teams to tackle enterprise and consumer challenges. His background includes architecting mapping capabilities as a Principal Software Engineer at Apple and leading projects at Oracle, giving him depth in both product-focused and large-enterprise engineering environments. Known for moving between strategic direction and code-level problem solving, he emphasizes reliability, observability, and pragmatic system design. He holds a Master’s in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida and a bachelor’s from BITS Pilani, combining strong academic foundations with startup-era execution. A less obvious strength is his track record of growing with a company—from founding engineer to director—demonstrating rare continuity in product, team, and technical ownership.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Masters Computer Engineering, Masters Computer Engineering at University of Florida