Siddarth Ramaswamy

Director of Engineering | Fintech | Ex - GoJek, Vedantu, Porter

[Adithya Venkatesan @adadithya]

A good friend with about 15 years of experience in Engineering/Product is looking for leadership roles in engineering. Has scaled multiple orgs from scratch, extremely driven and super hands-on.

Looking for a role in Bangalore, open to travel.

DM for details.

[Putting Scene @puttingscenes]

in today’s news: our love letter to this beautiful city https://t.co/hYbyejrdah

[Siddarth Ramaswamy @siddrt]

X (Decission, Meeting, etc) Logs is like any other logging solution. Until shit hits the fan you won’t even open it, but when it does you tailing and greping the hell out of it.

[Siddarth Ramaswamy @siddrt]

Platform teams need to build the common sense and empathy to give production level staging / uat environments to internal / external customers.

The cost of figuring out if an API is malfunctioning due to infrastructure, data or system issues is very expensive to customers.

[Siddarth Ramaswamy @siddrt]

Every company ever during performance management reviews

Engineer - I am doing X so I should get a bonus and get promoted
Manager - But isn’t X your default responsibility!!
Engineer - Oh but I did it overtime
Manager - 🙄

[Siddarth Ramaswamy @siddrt]

One job that needs to be paid most and is the need of the hour
- capturing minutes
- reminding ^ n exactly what needs to be done
- doing follow ups
- reminding stakeholders you can’t define a deadline and hold someone accountable

[Siddarth Ramaswamy @siddrt]

@Airtel_Presence you are so nonchalant about customer privacy :)

[Siddarth Ramaswamy @siddrt]

Hippos are among the most dangerous animals in Africa. Conference rooms too. - Jonathan Rosenberg

[Prukalpa ✨ @prukalpa]

Today, we launched @AtlanHQ's native integration with @ApacheAirflow 🎉 Time for a story 👇

https://t.co/wKc9Wa1SYZ

[Siddarth Ramaswamy @siddrt]

@bit_fury @amazonIN Had this issue with mainly non m1s. Not to sure with m1

[Siddarth Ramaswamy @siddrt]

At @SundaySoulSante, come say hi if you around

[Cindy Sridharan @copyconstruct]

Another little secret: a lot of what most “developer influencers” say is fairly aspirational.

Their own companies don’t necessarily do things as smoothly as they preach to others.

This is especially true at larger companies where the culture might vary vastly between orgs/teams

[Adam Jacob @adamhjk]

This is great advice from ⁦@fishmegs⁩ - this is a great process, thoughtfully laid out. “Cut Out Time Estimates on Roadmaps: Get Into a Product Delivery Rhythm” https://t.co/dWIbEsHIPX

[Vivek Veeramani @vivek_veeramani]

We are looking for product managers at Nivoda, a B2B marketplace revolutionising the way the global diamond industry operates.

https://t.co/Uf1GDaRAwv

[Adam Jacob @adamhjk]

Let’s just have a think, yes? Let’s say @gitpod open sources *all* of Gitpod. Full free software product play. They run a saas, they take partner workloads, they let you build a derivative and ship it (but can’t call it Gitpod)

[Siddarth Ramaswamy @siddrt]

“Definition of Done” is the most under utilised tool in product engineering.

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

Since time immemorial, when a CEO asks a PM at Product Review, “what do you need to 10X users/revenue?”, “what will make you go faster?”, etc the PM steadfastly responds “We need [N] more engineers”. The Eng Mgr nods approvingly.

A story thread, with some hard truths to swallow:

[Siddarth Ramaswamy @siddrt]

@ponnappa The same way all product & engineering people write “user stories” without talking about user

[Charity Majors @mipsytipsy]

Another great point that many of us struggle with.

First of all, sure, there *should* be no bad jobs, but that injustice is likely to exceed your personal capacity to resolve. 🙃