Summary
Thirunavukkarasu Muthusamy is a pragmatic technology leader and architect with over a decade of experience building and scaling engineering organisations across pre-seed startups and large enterprises. He blends hands-on engineering with principle-driven leadership, focusing on lean team design, developer experience, and architectures aligned to a company’s stage. At BYJU’S he scaled engineering from a handful to 300+ engineers and built multiple enterprise B2B/B2C platforms; at startups like Kalvium and Mantys he prioritised high-impact small teams, modular monoliths, and data-first stacks to accelerate product velocity. He has modernised analytics platforms using BigQuery, dbt and Medallion patterns, and shipped practical GenAI/RAG solutions for Customer360 and developer tooling. Known for recruiting and mentoring interns into SDE roles and for concrete trade-off decisions (e.g., moving from fragmented microservices to a modular monolith), he optimises for maintainability and rapid iteration. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs a web-development curiosity with deep experience in system design, data platforms, and developer productivity.
12 years of coding experience