Shivkumar Krishnan

Leading transformation of engineering culture and scaling global teams across Consumer, SME, and Enterprise platforms. Drove sustained high growth, scaled platform performance, and led Agentic AI initiatives.

Seed investor and hands-on technical advisor to multiple seed and Series A startups, focusing on GenAI-first product design, Agentic workflows with HITL safety patterns, and scaling platforms.

Built full-stack technology teams for digital real estate portals in Singapore and Indonesia. Drove 60% revenue growth, 100%+ user growth, and maintained 99.93% uptime across 5 portals.

Led Enablement Platforms team spanning Growth, SRE, DevOps, and Automation Tools Engineering. Rapid prototyped and launched new ecosystem products and supported expansion to Taiwan and Australia.

Early engineering hire who built high-impact teams and developed resilient distributed systems. Built Grab Automation Platform used by 500+ developers and Grab Ride Simulator achieving 400+ bookings per second.

Established CI/CD and Automation platforms enabling daily release pipeline with over 90% automated tests. Drove native App usage from 5% to 20% of transactions and grew Net GMS by 15%.

Pre-sales to bring in clientele from startups in the Bay Area. Mobile app development and deployment pipelines, and automation framework development.

iOS & Android Mobile App development and testing. Automation Framework development in Robot Framework.

Led the transition to a Quality Engineering culture on the Product Discovery and Checkout experiences teams.

Worked across Windows Server and Windows Live/Hotmail teams on Infrastructure Scaling, Automation Deployment & Testing platforms.

Pursued a Master of Science in Computer Science, with a journal publication on anonymous file sharing systems.

Completed an Integrated Masters in Technology Management at BITS Pilani, ranked #3 in India.