MEERA SRINIVASAN
Bridgewater,USA
Summary
Engineering leader with 20+ years of experience scaling platform, compliance, observability, and cost engineering organizations. Proven track record of building high-performing teams, modernizing engineering practices, and delivering multi-million-dollar efficiency, reliability, and compliance improvements. Operates at the intersection of technical strategy, organizational leadership, and business outcomes, with expertise in global scale, governance, and cloud cost optimization. Known for transforming ambiguous problem spaces into scalable, measurable, and repeatable systems.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Engineering Manager
Datadog
04.2023 - 10.2025
- Built and led the Compliance Engineering organization responsible for continuous compliance, automated controls, and global certification readiness.
- Leadership & Impact
- Built and scaled a 12-person (and growing) Compliance Engineering organization, establishing operating rhythms, OKRs, and career pathways.
- Cut audit readiness time by 50% through continuous compliance pipelines, automated controls, and operational dashboards.
- Tripled control coverage while reducing manual evidence collection by 30%, driving major productivity gains.
- Accelerated global certifications (ISMAP/IRAP) by 6+ weeks using AI-driven control mapping and gap analysis.
- Partnered with Security, Product, Legal, and GTM to enable faster region expansion through automated compliance analysis.
- Established a long-term technical strategy for scalable compliance services supporting Datadog’s rapid global growth.
Senior Engineering Manager / Product Area Lead
Spotify
07.2019 - 04.2023
- Led the Operational Health product area, covering observability, reliability, SRE tooling, and cloud cost engineering across Spotify’s engineering org.
- Leadership & Impact
- Built and led 4 teams (30 engineers) across observability, reliability, and cost domains; shaped hiring, org structure, and culture.
- Bootstrapped the Operational Health product area, defining its long-term charter, strategy, and technical roadmap.
- Led Cost Engineering and delivered the Backstage Cost Insights plugin, scaling cost visibility across thousands of engineers.
- Partnered with product and infrastructure leadership to improve cost attribution, recommendations, and alerting.
- Drove $13M+ in annual cloud savings through engineering advisory boards and optimization initiatives.
- Modernized engineering practices, elevated technical standards, and improved overall org health across the tribe.
Vice President
JPMorgan Chase
01.2006 - 01.2019
- Directed multiple engineering teams across Corporate Tech and Risk Finance.
- Impact
- Led delivery of platforms supporting global FFIEC reporting, automated regulatory data flows, and executive mobile revenue reporting.
- Transformed MIS into an Agile organization, improving delivery speed by 50%.
- Directed multi-team programs supporting growth in Prime Brokerage and Risk initiatives.
Vice President, Core Trading Services
Goldman Sachs
01.2000 - 01.2006
- Engineering leader in a mission-critical, high-frequency trading environment.
- Impact
- Delivered OMS systems for NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, and CBOE with high availability and low latency.
- Architected Equities–FICC integration and led delivery of PWM, derivatives, and futures trading systems.
Education
B.S. - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Government College of Technology
IndiaSkills
- Builds teams from the ground up and scales orgs with clear mission, OKRs, and talent pathways
- Drives cross-functional alignment with Product, Security, Compliance, and Executive stakeholders
- Known for clarity, structure, and building healthy, engaged cultures
- Platform, Compliance, SRE, Observability, FinOps/Cost Engineering
Organizational Leadership
Technical & Strategic Leadership
- Cloud governance, compliance automation, controls engineering
- Large-scale technical migrations & infrastructure modernization
- Program governance, portfolio management, risk management
- Incident management, reliability, global readiness
- Driving measurable operational efficiency and financial impact
Execution & Operational Excellence
Timeline
Senior Engineering Manager
Datadog
04.2023 - 10.2025
Senior Engineering Manager / Product Area Lead
Spotify
07.2019 - 04.2023
Vice President
JPMorgan Chase
01.2006 - 01.2019
Vice President, Core Trading Services
Goldman Sachs
01.2000 - 01.2006
B.S. - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Government College of Technology