# Chandrika Iyer

> Engineering Leader at Retool

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chandrika

## Work Experience
### Engineering Lead @ Retool
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Engineering Lead for the Automations team at Retool - Platform that enables customers to design and deploy agentic workflows to automate and scale their business processes.

### Engineering Leader @ Motive(Formerly KeepTruckin)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Led multiple engineering teams across three key product areas—Equipment Monitoring, Device
Experience, and Fuel & Sustainability—scaling product revenue with 30% YoY growth.

- Spearheaded the launch of a new Equipment Monitoring vertical by aligning cross-functional
teams around technical strategy and roadmap execution.

- Drove strategic planning and resource allocation. Notably
launched Device Hub within 6 months, enhancing fleet device visibility and control.

- Improved engineering quality through architecture reviews, code standards, and incident
response processes 

- Fostered a high-performing culture through mentorship, goal setting, and actionable feedback—
successfully promoted multiple engineers across levels

- Integrated GitHub Copilot into the engineering review pipeline to surface initial suggestions, freeing senior engineers to focus on architectural and domain-critical logic

- Boosted adherence to coding standards and improved developer productivity across three teams

### Staff Software Engineer @ TESLA MOTORS LIMITED
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Fremont, California
- Modernized Accounts Payable systems via automation and scalable microservices, boosting
deployment agility and increasing feature delivery rate

- Built a robust invoice approval state machine using MassTransit and RabbitMQ, reducing error
rates by over 20%.

- Mentored senior developers and strengthened engineering rigor through code and design
reviews, reducing post-production issues

### Senior Software Engineer @ Renovate America
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Diego, California, United States
- Developed AngularJS-based web applications for underwriting platforms with 100% unit test
coverage.

- Migrated document storage from SharePoint to AWS S3 using Lambda and API Gateway,
reducing costs by 20%.

- Built and maintained microservices with C# Web APIs; integrated third-party decisioning
systems to improve development speed by 20%

### Senior Software Developer @ Bridgepoint Education
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014
Collaborated within a team to create a highly interactive online assessment system called Waypoint, encompassing a feature set that includes multi-tenancy, course building, rubric and criteria creation for assessments, student submission, grading, and reporting.

- Engineered robust front-end single-page applications using .Net MVC, JQuery, AngularJS, UI Bootstrap, and Unity.
- Developed services utilizing NHibernate as the Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) tool to interface with the SQL Server backend.
- Managed AngularJS integration with REST web services, ensuring seamless communication and functionality.
- Contributed to a building block that leverages Java for integration with Blackboard.
- Orchestrated the entire feature pipeline, steering it from inception to completion in a dynamic Agile environment.
- Provided mentorship to junior developers, resolving cross-browser issues, and conducting thorough code and design reviews.
- Engaged in pair programming sessions with other developers in the team, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing.
- Implemented Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices using NUnit and Moq for comprehensive unit testing.


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chandrika-iyer-7059a523

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Last updated: 2026-04-11