# Aravind Ramanathan

> Eng lead for Global Payouts

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aravindramanathan

I love building web applications. And they have come in many shapes—traditional web sites, embedded UI components, cross platform mobile apps. At different points in my career I have spent time at different points in the web stack: from low level JavaScript counting bytes to configuring large data pipelines to building rich charts, lists, and reports. I help teams ship great stuff that users love by being a tech lead, mentor, and sometimes the one who nitpicks to achieve greater reliability and polish.

## Work Experience
### Engineering Manager @ Stripe
Jan 2024 – Present

### Staff Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
- Led a rewrite of the UI lists from online DB to Elastic search: add a 9 of reliability, 5% faster writes from fewer indexes in online DB, richer product with more filtering and sorting
- Shipped a new payouts product on a wholly new Stripe stack: full stack design of a system from csv upload to backend batch orchestration, feedback/influence platform teams rewriting the stack
- Tech lead of a team of 10-30, setting technical strategy, mentoring eng across the company, partnering with product during early ambiguous shaping
- Uplevel incident response: a new greenfield stack implied a different way of leveraging incidents to urgently improve reliability posture based on user feedback. Also wrote incident reports for gnarly incidents that drove deep changes in Stripe's roadmaps

### Senior Software Engineer @ Twitter
Jan 2013 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Tech lead, Publish Platform - tools for news publishers using Twitter
- Built the framework and new widgets for embedding Twitter on millions of websites, seen by billion users monthly.
- Built the front-end for publish.twitter.com (a new React web app) to help publishers get html code for embedding Twitter widgets on websites. Also built the Finatra based Scala backend.
- Built the data pipeline for widget analytics—designed and wrote Hadoop jobs using higher level frameworks such as Twitter's Scalding. 
- Intimately involved in the devops for all the web projects my team owns - e.g. CI, deploy.

### Senior Mobile Software Engineer @ Rearden Commerce
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Foster city, CA
- Migrated native Android and iPhone apps to hybrid web apps built using latest HTML5 features
- Building an open source integration testing tool to test mobile apps on actual mobile devices (https://github.com/indianburger/roombajs)
- Set up continuous integration scripts to run unit tests and build app binaries on every commit
- Ran a performance audit to measure load time issues and improved load time by ~50% using webkit developer tools

### Graduate Research Assistant @ Georgia Tech
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
- Capture and replay of a javascript application 
- Used program analysis techniques and code instrumentation
- Used Google closure compiler for AST analysis and instrumentation

### Web Developer @ Georgia Tech
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
- Backend development (PHP)
- Database management (MySQL)
- Requirement Analysis of new projects

### Programmer Analyst @ Cognizant Technology Solutions
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 | Chennai Area, India
Writing java beans and servlets when that was a thing.


## Education
### MS in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology

### B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering
Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aravindramanathan

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Last updated: 2026-04-12