About Myself

I am a passionate developer who enjoys learning new things, whether its on the job or in my spare time. I try to explore every end of the stack from frontend (mobile + web) to backend (RESTful apis, socket servers, distributed locking, queueing, logging, and metering), and sometimes low level firmware on occasion (IoT + BLE). I always consider security at each layer (CSRFs, XSS Sanitization, signed JWTs, SDK security scans, api credentials, key vaults, and HSMs). I never forget the importance of testing, and continuing to ensure product delivery is a success (TDD, Jenkins, CircleCI, Calabash, and Docker). I have found that this adaptibility allows me to easily come up to speed on new teams.

4

Years       Experience

9

Proficient Coding Languages

3

Open Source Contributions

GoLang 100%

Java/Kotlin/Scala/Groovy 80%

PaaS 70%

Docker & Kubernetes 70%

React Native & Android 60%

  • Nov 2021 to Present    

    Nimble Robotics

    Senior Software Engineer
    San Francisco, CA

  • July 2020 to Nov 2021

    Workday NEXT

    Software Enginner P3
    San Francisco, CA

  • July 2019 to July 2020

    Workday NEXT: Aquired Trusted Key

    Software Enginner P2
    San Francisco, CA

  • May 2018 to July 2019

    Trusted Key

    Software Engineer
    Pleasanton, CA

  • 2021 to Present         

    RPG IRL

    A mobile game which lets users play an RPG-esque game in a pokemon-go-esque world. However, real world locations are mapped to virtual places in the game. Players could also give back to community by doing community service and getting rewards in-game.

  • 2018 to 2021             

    Basys IoT

    IoT platform which allowed football coaches to objectively assess player performance during practice using metrics gathered from sensors placed on training equipment

  • 2017 to 2018             

    Welcome AI

    Mobile App used to provide intelligent suggestions to offers from local hospitality businesses, and web app which allowed businesses to manage IoT resources

  • 2016 to 2017             

    Assassin's Guild

    Mobile App used to track and manage the game of assassin's

Testimonials

Here are some things people have said about me at work

In my experience working with Krishnan, I find him to exhibit a maturity and sense of ownership that I’ve seen in others who have been tremendously successful at Workday.

Armin Taghinia

Krishnan has a sense of maturity that's beyond his years of experience. In my experience, I find him to have a true owner's perspective, where he completes a task thoroughly, as opposed to doing the bare minimum to get by. I also get the impression that Krishnan has a We over Me attitude, something that's a great cultural fit at Workday. Although his preference was to do backend dev, when we needed mobile resources, he was happy to take on mobile work, again, even though he had communicated in the past that his preference was to do backend work.

Anonymous Feedback

One of Krishnan strengths is self reliance and problem solving. Whenever we've had to work on an issue together he comes to the table with options/ideas as to how the issue can be worked/resolved. There are too many engineers that expect an answer but Krishnan is always proactively making recommendations or coming up with solutions ahead of a discussion. This is a great strength to have if he is interested in moving towards a technical leadership role. Krishnan brings a positive attitude when working on a task he isn't familiar with. He questions why things were done a certain way to learn the system.

Anonymous Feedback

I have had the opportunity to observe Krishnan over the last year, both in his time at Trusted Key and then at Workday. He has consistently shown the ability to work independently, with less than fully specified requirements, do the research and figure out what needs to be built and how, get the design reviewed and approved and then take ownership of the actual implementation with high quality (including writing tests) in a collaborative manner.

Anonymous Feedback

+10 to Krishnan for staying cool on the surface and padling underneath like a duck to complete the Credential Receipt demo during the last milestone #skateboard-mindset

David Konig

+10 to Krishnan for relentlessly fixing issues to get us to the finish line for the Receipt Status Update flow #problem-solving

Aditya Mantrala