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    Sriram Krishnan

    Professional based in San Francisco Bay Area

    Sriram Krishnan is an experienced engineering leader currently serving as the Head of Engineering, Platform at Benchling, a company focused on building cloud platforms for life sciences R&D.1 He joined Benchling in September 2020 and has held various senior leadership roles within the organization, including Head of Data & Applications Engineering and Head of Data & Machine Learning.1

    Career Highlights

    At Benchling::

    • Leads the Platform Engineering team
    • Grew his team from less than 10 to almost 100 members over a couple of years
    • Hired Principal-level engineers and Director-level managers
    • Contributed to significant company growth and valuation increase

    Previous Roles::

    • VP of Engineering, Einstein Platform at Salesforce (October 2017 - September 2020)
    • Senior Engineering Manager, Head of Data Platform at Twitter (February 2014 - August 2017)

    Expertise and Skills

    Sriram has a strong background in:

    • Distributed Systems
    • Data & Machine Learning
    • Cloud Computing
    • Scalability
    • Software Engineering
    • Big Data technologies like Hadoop

    Notable Achievements

    At Salesforce, Sriram led the Machine Learning Platform for Einstein, scaling it to handle more than 10 billion predictions per day.1 At Twitter, he managed the Data Platform team, which processed billions of events per day in real-time and tens of petabytes daily in batch.1

    Sriram Krishnan is known for his expertise in building and scaling large-scale distributed systems and data platforms, making him a valuable leader in the tech industry.

    Highlights

    Nov 29 · Business Insider
    From Marc Andreessen to Sriram Krishnan, these are all the Silicon Valley leaders linked with Elon Musk's DOGE
    Nov 28 · Business Insider
    Sriram Krishnan is leaving Andreessen Horowitz and is reportedly in talks to join Elon Musk at DOGE

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    Experience

    Benchling

    Education

    Indiana University Bloomington

    Location

    San Francisco Bay Area