Sri Chandrasekaran
Hopkinton,MA
Summary
- Lead Product Manager with 20+ years of experience building platform products that enable engineering organizations to operate more safely, efficiently, and consistently at scale. Experienced defining platform strategy, AI-enabled workflows, governance capabilities, developer productivity systems, observability platforms, and metrics-driven decision frameworks. Proven track record partnering with engineering, data, security, and operations teams to build scalable internal platforms that reduce operational risk while improving customer experience.
- Public speaker at global and regional conferences, including KubeCon and the Test Automation Summit. Program Committee member/reviewer for BackstageCon and Platform Engineering Day (2026), and author of multiple blog posts on developer experience and platform health.
- Approved EB-1A (Extraordinary Ability) immigrant petition holder for sustained, nationally recognized contributions in platform product leadership and developer experience.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Product Manager – Platform
FanDuel
Hopkinton, MA
03.2026 - Current
- Responsible for defining the platform strategy for self-service infrastructure, deployment automation, developer workflows, observability, and governance capabilities supporting hundreds of engineering users.
- Established measurable platform health indicators, adoption metrics, service quality KPIs, and operational dashboards used to prioritize investments and reduce engineering friction.
- First Product Manager hired within FanDuel's Platform Engineering organization, responsible for Vision,Product strategy, Roadmap, and execution across Platform Experience, Infrastructure, Observability, CI/CD, and Developer Experience.
- Own the vision for FanDuel's Internal Developer Platform, treating the platform as a product with measurable customer outcomes, adoption metrics, and engineering productivity goals.
- Established a metrics-driven product operating model, defining platform KPIs, adoption metrics, platform health indicators, and developer productivity measurements to guide investment decisions.
- Partnering with engineering teams to integrate AI-assisted workflows and intelligent automation into the Internal Developer Platform to improve engineering productivity and knowledge discovery.
- Lead product strategy across developer onboarding, software delivery, infrastructure provisioning, observability, deployment automation, and engineering self-service.
- Drive roadmap alignment across Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, Developer Experience, and Engineering leadership.
- Coach and mentor Product Owners across the Platform organization, introducing product discovery, customer research, prioritization frameworks, and outcome-based planning.
- Champion platform thinking by treating internal engineering teams as customers and continuously improving developer workflows through research, feedback, and measurable outcomes.
- Collaborate closely with engineering teams building platform capabilities using Backstage, Acuity, cloud infrastructure, observability tooling, and in-house services to deliver a unified developer experience.
Senior Product Manager – Platform Developer Experience
Spotify
11.2022 - 01.2026
- Led product strategy for Spotify's engineering governance platform used to define, measure, and continuously improve engineering standards across more than 10,000 software components.
- Owned product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Soundcheck, an internal developer platform used by Spotify’s engineering organization and external enterprise users to standardize software health and accelerate delivery from onboarding to production.
- Background includes multiple years as a hands-on automation and infrastructure engineer before transitioning into product management.
- Experienced in working with data-heavy platforms, defining metrics, feedback loops, and quality signals to guide user behavior and automation
- Experienced integrating LLM-based assistants into developer platforms to automate knowledge access, reduce cognitive load, and improve developer efficiency
- Drove adoption of developer tooling through clear documentation, standards, and workflows, partnering with engineering managers and principal engineers to embed Soundcheck into day-to-day development practices
- Acted as product lead for internal developer tooling, partnering closely with engineering, SRE, and platform teams to identify workflow bottlenecks, prioritize fixes, and drive adoption across a rapidly growing engineering organization.
- Scaled Developer Experience impact across org sizes-Smaller organizations (~100 micro-services) achieved up to 20% improvement in code quality .Delivered 30%+ improvements in developer productivity and delivery throughput through reduced build failures, faster feedback loops, and improved incident resolution.At Spotify's scale (10,000+ components) Soundcheck enforced consistent engineering standards across a rapidly growing ecosystem, resulting in Increased delivery velocity: Each percentage-point improvement in pass rate enabled up to 7 additional deployments, improving release throughput at scale.Improved reliability and operations: Squads maintaining upto 85% pass rates saw ~20% fewer build failures and ~25% fewer high-urgency incidents, with incident resolution ~1.5 hours faster per 10-point improvement (Up to 5 hours saved per squad per month).Boosted developer efficiency and satisfaction- Reduced PR build/test wait times by up to 46% (~35 FTE hours saved), cut local build times by up to 56% (~8 FTEs saved), and increased developer satisfaction from 50% to 75%.
- Users of Soundcheck like Pager-Duty continue to use Soundcheck to strengthen security and operational practices and actively reference it in webinars and blog posts
Principal Product Manager
Alert Innovation (Acquired by Walmart)
01.2022 - 11.2022
- Drove product strategy and roadmap across robotic and diagnostics platforms, enabling grocery fulfillment systems that processed orders ~35% faster than competitors and delivered 20%+ ROI for enterprise customers, including Walmart.
- Promoted from Principal Automation Engineer to platform and product leadership roles based on impact in large-scale DevOps transformation.
Principal Automation Engineer / Lead
Alert Innovation (Acquired by Walmart)
01.2021 - 01.2022
- Established end-to-end automated testing for the Robotic Control System, accelerating release cycles, improving 24×7×365 up-time, and reducing time to resolve critical issues.Led API and UI automation strategy; built Jenkins-based CI pipelines, reducing environment setup to near-zero. Defined automation best practices and trained the QA and engineering team
Principal Automation Engineer → Platform Product Manager / Engineering Lead
HealthEdge
- Led Dev-Ops and platform automation transformation across the organization, reducing environment provisioning from 50 hours to 6 hours per engineer and enabling the delivery of 200+ environments in one month. Improved upgrade efficiency by 25% (2 days → 1.5 days) across 21 customer environments.Contributed to 30% revenue growth, 25% new customer acquisition, and record-breaking delivery in 2019 through scalable platform engineering
QA Automation Engineer
ACI Worldwide (EMEA) Ltd
Waltham, MA
01.2013 - 08.2015
- Designed and implemented comprehensive test plans for software applications to ensure quality standards.
- Led cross-functional teams in identifying and resolving critical software defects, enhancing product reliability.
- Developed automated testing scripts using Selenium, improving testing efficiency and reducing manual effort.•
- Conducted regression testing to ensure system stability after updates and new feature implementations.
QA Test Engineer
Wipro Technologies, Datasys Consulting
04.2004 - 04.2013
- Developed and executed automated test scripts using Selenium and Java to enhance testing efficiency.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve software defects during development cycles.
- Implemented continuous integration processes using Jenkins to streamline deployment and testing procedures.
- Analyzed test results and provided detailed reports to stakeholders, ensuring clarity on software performance.
Education
Executive MBA - Business Administration And Management
Quantic School of Business And Technology
Washington, DC02-2022
PG Program - Cyber Law
Asian School of Cyber Laws
01-2007
Bachelor Of Engineering - Computer Science
University of Madras
01-2004
Skills
- Developer Platform & Infrastructure: CI/CD, testing infrastructure, DevOps, internal tooling
- Platform Product Management: Vision, roadmap ownership, stakeholder alignment, SaaS & enterprise platforms
- AI & Intelligent Platforms: AI-enabled Product Strategy,Intelligent Automation,Knowledge Assistants,Decision Support Systems,Platform Analytics and Metrics Frameworks
Timeline
Lead Product Manager – Platform
FanDuel
03.2026 - Current
Senior Product Manager – Platform Developer Experience
Spotify
11.2022 - 01.2026
Principal Product Manager
Alert Innovation (Acquired by Walmart)
01.2022 - 11.2022
Principal Automation Engineer / Lead
Alert Innovation (Acquired by Walmart)
01.2021 - 01.2022
QA Automation Engineer
ACI Worldwide (EMEA) Ltd
01.2013 - 08.2015
QA Test Engineer
Wipro Technologies, Datasys Consulting
04.2004 - 04.2013
Bachelor Of Engineering - Computer Science
University of Madras
PG Program - Cyber Law
Asian School of Cyber Laws
Principal Automation Engineer → Platform Product Manager / Engineering Lead
HealthEdge
Executive MBA - Business Administration And Management
Quantic School of Business And Technology