Building systems that didn't have names yet. Fraud detection AI before fintech. Big data before Hadoop. NLP for healthcare before GenAI. Now leading AI strategy at the frontier.
Called Sri one of the best directors, engineers, and DBAs he's worked with. System designs are end-to-end the right level of completeness — and his aggressiveness is "pure virtue in a startup."
One of those rare gems — a supremely good individual software engineer in his own right, and an outstanding manager and leader. Any problem, anywhere — Srinivas will solve it.
Witnessed Sri build a productive engineering team, re-architect a hastily built codebase, and establish solid processes. A consummate mix of vision and pragmatism.
'Highly recommended' is not a strong enough phrase. Called him a role model — noted the ability to handpick and grow a high quality technical team from scratch.