Summit Labs

As a Fractional CTO I help transform teams that are struggling to deliver results. I start with simplifying the processes and the platform to get results. 

I help companies to scale by:
1. Adding users
2. Adding features
3. Adding developers

As a seasoned technical product builder and startup advisor, I have been at the forefront of helping early-stage companies bring their ideas to life by building cutting-edge software products. With extensive experience in software development and a deep understanding of the startup ecosystem, I specialize in advising startups on the right technical decisions to make, helping them navigate through the complex process of product development, and providing strategic guidance on how to build successful and scalable products. 

Whether it's working with founders to identify the best technology stack for their product or leading development teams to build high-quality software, I am committed to helping startups achieve their goals by providing the technical expertise they need to succeed.

Fractional CTO | Principal Technical Advisor

Katilyst

Katilyst is leading the charge with products and services focused on shifting company culture toward security best practices through engaging security champion programs.

Investor and Advisor

ByDesign

As a technical advisor for ByDesign, I provide critical guidance and support to help the company navigate the complexities of the technology landscape and achieve their ambitious goals.

Through a collaborative and hands-on approach, I am able to help guide the development of  customized solutions that align with the ByDesign's specific needs and goals. Thanks in part to my guidance and support, the company continues to achieve significant success, rapidly scaling their platform and expanding their offerings.

Primary Venture Partners

As an Expert, I provide strategic advice and guidance to Primary and their portfolio network. Experts enjoy access to early-stage businesses, emerging trends and technology, and an expanded network of exceptional leaders, and resources through a top-tier seed-stage firm.

Primary is New York City’s premier early stage venture firm working alongside founders to build unicorns like Alloy, Chief, Electric, K Health, Slice, and many more.

Advisor / Expert

Techstars

As a technical mentor to early stage startups, I have had the privilege of working with some of the most innovative and exciting companies in the technology space.

My role has been to provide guidance, support, and advice to these startups as they navigate the challenges of building a successful business, with a particular focus on their technical strategy and execution.

Through a collaborative and hands-on approach, I have worked closely with the founders and their teams to help them develop the technical skills and knowledge they need to build robust and scalable technology solutions.

This has included providing mentorship and coaching on a range of technical topics, from software engineering best practices and architectural design to cloud computing, data science, and emerging technologies.

One of the things that sets me apart as a technical mentor is my ability to tailor my approach to the specific needs and goals of each startup. I take the time to understand their unique challenges and opportunities, and work closely with them to develop customized solutions that meet their needs.

Through my experience as a technical mentor, I have gained a deep appreciation for the unique challenges and opportunities that early stage startups face in the technology space. And I am committed to using my skills and expertise to help these companies succeed and thrive in a highly competitive and rapidly evolving landscape.

Mentor

goLance

At goLance we're leading the industry with technical innovation bringing together the right talent with the right clients.

As the Chief Technology Officer for a dynamic marketplace platform, I am instrumental in steering the technology direction and software development to bring together clients and freelancers. My role encompasses leading a talented tech team, enhancing our platform to meet and exceed user expectations, and driving innovation to ensure our technology stays ahead of the curve.

With a keen eye on the evolving tech landscape, I navigate through technological advancements to incorporate cutting-edge solutions that elevate our service. My approach is hands-on in solving technical challenges, ensuring our platform remains robust and reliable. I excel in demystifying complex technical concepts, ensuring seamless communication across teams and with our stakeholders, thereby fostering a collaborative environment that propels our platform forward.

My mission is to create a marketplace that not only meets the current demands of our users but also anticipates future needs, making it a go-to platform for clients and freelancers alike. Through strategic planning, technological innovation, and a commitment to excellence, I am dedicated to enhancing our platform's impact and success in the marketplace.

Chief Technology Officer

Calendly

At Calendly we're making scheduling easy.

As an application architect, I play a critical role in helping the organization design, build, and deploy complex software applications that meet their unique needs.

Through a deep understanding of software engineering best practices, application design patterns, and modern technologies, I have been able to develop scalable, reliable, and maintainable software architectures that support business growth and drive innovation.

Some of the key areas in which I have provided value include:

* Guiding the implementation of a microservices-based architecture for improved scalability and flexibility
* Designing and guiding development cloud-native applications for enhanced reliability, availability, and cost-effectiveness
* Advising on software engineering best practices and emerging technologies to keep applications current and competitive
* Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with business goals and objectives

Application Architect

WealthForge

As application architect for WealthForge, a fintech startup, I was responsible for designing and implementing cutting-edge solutions for the Altigo platform. With my deep expertise in software engineering, cloud computing, and financial technologies, I was able to deliver innovative solutions that simplified the overall architecture that allowed for better scalability and security.

My role involved working closely with our development teams to design and implement solutions that are scalable, reliable, and secure. Whether we were developing new features, optimizing existing applications, or building integrations with third-party platforms, I ensured that our solutions are aligned with our business objectives and meet the needs of the business.

Capital One

At Capital One, we're Changing Banking for Good. As a Master Software Engineer I have developed applications to improve visibility of key financial metrics. I have developed and continually contributed to inner sourced application frameworks that have decreased development time by 80% while improving application security and resiliency. As an AWS Solutions Architect, I have reduced cloud costs by 66% while increasing application resiliency.

As a trainer and teacher I have developed and lead training courses in Threat Modeling, Application Development, and Application Security.

Master Software Engineer

Provider Resources, Inc.

Application Developer

CTO at goLance • Making software simple • Startup Mentor

Building and scaling your product feels unpredictable and frustrating.

Now, imagine if you could:
- Have a clear roadmap for your tech decisions
- Build a system that supports consistent, scalable growth

You know there’s a better way to operate.

This is where I come in...

For startups and scale-ups, I offer Technical Advising Services:
- I provide high-level strategic advice, along with hands-on guidance to ensure execution aligns with your business goals.
- With over 15 years in the field and experience leading teams through high-growth phases, I specialize in helping companies avoid costly mistakes and create tech systems that scale.
- My frameworks have helped companies transform messy tech stacks into well-oiled machines, ready to scale.

I offer a limited number of advising slots to ensure each client gets personalized attention.
  
If you’re ready to take your technology to the next level, send me a message or schedule a call using the link in my profile.

Brian Childress

ACV Auctions

Senior Engineering Manager

Self Employed

Coach (Create Value) for engineering team of high traffic platform offered to large enterprises. 
•	Product engineering , includes Design Review, Code Review and Planing milestones
•	Drive DevOps actions  in multi- cloud (GCP,Azure)  to ensure  compliance and optimal costs
•	Drive  SRE actions with primary objective of no down-time

Fractional Leader (SaaS )

Vayana Network

SCF platform enables corporates/SME to receive supply chain finance in digital mode from Indian banks

The journey started with legacy monolithic application and newly developed micro-services  platform that implemented CQRS & Event Sourcing patterns to integrate with banks/corporate in unique way.

Own and Drive  development (Business As Usual) 
•	Own integrations with bank and production support. 

Own and Drive New Integrations (along with business team )
•	Own requirements to on-board new banks (security audit) 
•	Own requirements  to on-board new enterprises (create/reuse/extend).

Lead  and Drive execution of migration activities  (along with business team)
•	Develop monolithic features in new platform, specific to migration of specific customers. 
•	Drive migration of customers (bank, enterprise) from monolithic  app to micro-service(V2).

Engineer  - SVP

Decision Resources Group, part of Clarivate

Insights, healthcare content platform, enables analysts to publish medical content, leveraged by pharma & MedTech (B2B) used by medical researchers and pharma researchers ( from top 50 medical and pharma related firms)  and influences their  plan and strategy 

Drive and Manage  team (20+) that, includes architect, principal engineer, engineers, business analyst. 
The  journey started inheriting  20+ member PHP-Drupal team, as part of Clarivate acquisition of Decision Resources Group. I enabled team to seamlessly navigate new transition , ensure continuity and momentum in  development,  influence adoption of new practices to align with central technology teams.

Contributed to create upcoming road-map. Owned execution of current road-map  including 
1. Own AWS production  environment 
2. Pioneer Java based API integration development with data science teams & Clarivate teams. 
3. Drive hands-on to implement GDPR  solution for insights platform and  data applications 
4. Jump -start & Drive development of automation and security tests as part of continuous releases.
5. Own platform support including  legacy Apps and approach to re-engineer legacy applications.

Senior Manager - Technology

Jump-start Sahay, a  platform to enable mental well- being, along with Sochara, played the role of Digital architect to setup helpline configuring exotel services, on-boarded 40  psychiatrists, set up jugaad process using Zoom and Google Sheets  and enabled 100+ lives sessions to happen.

Jump-start a platform  to conceptualise idea and plan  at strategic level. create product backlog with priorities, facilitate collaboration with UI/UX designers, arrive at estimates, milestones and budget. 

Facilitate product development- technical review, brainstorm,  feedback , evaluate integration APIs, streamline dev practices , on-board Tech Lead, jump-start technical webinars for user engagement

Facilitate  software development  team - interviews, agile coaching, design and execute learning program for identified freshers .

Platform Architect

Indian Data Center Firm

Senior Architect Role in sales team

Customer and Sales Focus
•	Actively involved  to conceptualise large scale deals with customers at government and public sector.
•	Worked with sales team to respond to RFPs and business opportunities.  Created proposals, identify potential risks, propose solution design and tentative execution plan
•	Enabled training for sales team to gain nuances about  emerging technology

Solution, Risk and Execution Focus
•	Drive requirements gathering for government project to achieve digital transformation of  judicial system in African country and proposed end-to-end solution for execution
•	Researched for open source solutions, evaluated their feasibility. Drive development team to build  quick prototypes, to validate some proposed solutions.

Senior Architect

Accion Labs

Created and Delivered  engineering teams (15+) for multiple US startups [ from grounds-up] . 
For 2 startups, I successfully delivered playing  roles of both Technology Owner and Product Engineering Owner  

Merchant Credit Assess Protection,  B2B Lending platform for MSME and SMB in  US market, to enable business entity (the funders) to lend to business entity (MSME, SMB), facilitated by  brokerage firms.
o  Owned end-to-end loan life-cycle including (a) application to secure the loan (b) recommendations of qualified loan plans (c) loan processing by the funder, includes “underwriting” (d) tracking/follow-up for loan repayments & renewals.
o  Responsible to develop and deploy platform in AWS, including architecture, UI design, API, UI layer, 
o  Drive mobile application development of Android and iOS apps, integrated with MCAP APIs.
o  Hands-on for develop  end-to-end platform integration with 3rd party APIs to obtain credit score and online digital bank statements, perform digital signature & integration with enterprise Salesforce.
o  Lead development of AI solution (jointly with IBM vendor)  to read scanned financial reports & scanned bank statements.

myKala, alternate retail platform for US marketplace, enables buyers to place orders via conversational UI and allows retailer’s to place bids to match buyer’s demand and buyer can choose a bid suiting  his requirements and  start e-commerce transaction.
o Drive development of end-to-end retail workflows, API integrations for payments, tax calculation, and delivery.

o  Drive organisation efforts to build competency in emerging technology. I also created and successfully executed   “Day 2 productive” learning program for fresh college engineers, across 2 years

o Jump-started and executed successfully 2 block-chain MVP engagements, first  in  lending space to address challenge of lending data governance and  second in supply chain to identify counterfeit assets, and prove authenticity of the asset.

Director

Meridium, from GE Digital

Lead in V4 Asset Performance (APM) SaaS development team (~150) developing web, mobile (iOS, Android), connector interfaces and server components hosted either on WS2012 or AWS or Azure

Development Team Lead

MobiSir Technologies Pvt Ltd

Co-Founder and Builder. Own & Execute “New product development “ road-map in learning and skill development space. Failed to hit Product Market fit.

Jump-started  development teams for 2 start-ups, AhaGuru learning platform, ButterFlyFields mobile apps.

mXams - MobiSir
o  Build SaaS multi-tenant portal to create content and mobile application to distribute learning content.
o  Lead Content engineering to create, encrypt, package and publish learning (text, audio, video) content in MobiSir Content format.  
o  Head – Products for mXams. Launch and Drive field efforts to adopt the platform. Nurture/explore new business possibilities with Nokia, Samsung and BB. Drive outreach to 5000+ students and establish partnership with 10+ Indian educators

Business Accounting Process (BAP) - ArthaVidhya
o  Build virtual accounting engine solution to enable commerce students to learn.
o  Conceptualise and develop MVP, jointly owned first launch and successful delivery of BAP course.
o  Head - Product Marketing for ArthaVidhya (NSDC partner). Hustler for outreach to colleges and enterprises.
o  Conceptualise F & A skills (SGAP) assessment to enable (DIY) students to self-identify their own skill gap.

Co-Founder

Proteans Software Solutions( Symphony Teleca)

Builder  to develop 2 technical initiatives from scratch. Own technology, customer and delivery
•	Lead development team for Microsoft Certification suite of tools
•	Lead development team to develop file transfer solutions

Technical Delivery Manager for 3 outsourced U.S ISV teams managing 20 member team 

Advocate to create learning culture in organisation

Technology Project Manager

Human Being | Builder | Platform | Engineering

I am a hands-on platform builder. I specialise in seamlessly integrating technology, product vision, and user perspectives.  

Built, grown and led teams in a mix of fast-paced environments - startups, mid-size & large companies. 
Startup Founder of MobiSir

Results oriented technology executive with a track record of  building and managing high performance teams and delivering several successful enterprise-class products. 

Spearheaded and Delivered successful execution of 6 platforms/products, each built  ground up. 

Learn emerging technical paradigms and  new programming languages. Current learning interests include block-chain, AI/ML, micro-services and privacy.

My people mantra is to develop a team culture that is  end-user focused, continuous learning, a growth mindset, with a commitment to delivery quality value. 

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Past roles include (Reach me at srinivasan.gsvasan@gmail.com) 

I have been actively involved as active volunteer with technical meetups and non-profits in Bangalore

2023 Been exploring as Trusted Advisor for https://www.titlechain.world/ Pro Bono

2020. Successfully completed a hands-on program, "Extensive Vision AI – Basics and Applications" in Python, covering  data collection, data transformation, model creation, training data, loss adjustment, and testing data. 

2018- 2019. As a Product Architect, I played a pivotal role to develop and deliver two blockchain MVPS,  in the  loan and transparency sectors. Crafted solutions  using Ethereum, Smart  Contact using Solidity,  Sawtooth,  Fabric and docker..

2016-2018  Embarked on new venture focused on payments and trade finance, to facilitate better credit access for businesses. Setup Private Limited company as Indian Director. Jump started  engineers  for  development. From grounds-up, I was involved with banks to obtain APIs and with enterprises to position solution.

2011-2014. As Product Manager for mXams at MobiSir, I played a central role to steer  product's direction, forged and nurtured partnerships with mobile OEMs.  I owned product marketing activities for  BAP course at ArthaVidhya. To generate cash,  I jump-started development offering  to setup and build small development teams for  Indian startups.

2003- 2005.  While working in USA,  I received a jump-start into learning and being part of Agile-Scrum model, arriving at estimates, planning milestones and also in code build and release process

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