Engineering Leadership · Platform Engineering · Developer Productivity
I'm Krishna Dey, an Engineering Manager at SpotDraft leading Integrations and Platform.
I work across enterprise architecture, developer platforms, integrations, reliability, engineering productivity, AI-assisted software development, and people development.
I stay close to architecture and code while I manage the org. Most of the underlying systems are ones I have designed or reviewed. The goal is not to become the critical path. It is to create better platforms, better engineering mechanisms, and stronger engineers.
Platform work is the foundation product teams should not have to rebuild: reliability, shared automation, identity and access, and the primitives that make enterprise and AI features possible. Repeated pain should become a reusable capability, not another one-off.
I work on the systems around how engineers build software, not just the software itself. I led SpotDraft's agentic software development lifecycle — agent-ready codebases, a spec-to-PR workflow, and adoption across teams — and I care whether those systems actually improve engineering outcomes.
An engineering manager's job is not to make every important decision. It is to develop engineers who can make increasingly important decisions themselves. Led promotion of 7+ engineers.
Recurring friction should become infrastructure, tooling, documentation, automation, or a better default. That includes public APIs, the Developer Portal, internal workflows, and two years of company hackathons as a mechanism for experimentation.
Promotion cases from explicit growth plans, stretch ownership, and evidence against next-level expectations. The packet is not the work. The work is a decision space the person can occupy without me covering fire.
Recognized with SpotDraft's Excellence Award for going above and beyond as an engineering manager, with specific recognition for impact in leveling up the PED function and the product.
Worked on moving integrations away from bespoke customer-specific implementations toward reusable primitives and a generic trigger-condition-action automation model. One example was choosing a reusable Reverse Sync architecture rather than optimizing only for the fastest Salesforce implementation, so later CRM, Slack, and access-control automations could reuse the same underlying system. Salesforce and HubSpot native integrations have each had more than $1M in revenue impact.
The platform job is to take reliability out of heroics: stop using the primary database as a queue, remove single points of failure in routing, and make the product feel live instead of stale. Dashboards, ownership, incident follow-through, and on-call are how that operating system stays inspectable. The most important shift was from treating reliability as a sequence of incidents to treating it as an engineering system.
Auth, access, tasking, automation, search, bulk operations, and shared UI should be foundations product teams consume, not puzzles they re-solve. I am pushing the org toward that golden path: explicit tenant ownership, modular frontend platforms, and shared services so adding an audit log, a search index, or an AI tool takes minutes instead of a custom project.
A configurable reverse-sync system for pushing contract and workflow data back into Salesforce, shaped to be extensible across triggers, conditions, object mappings, and future automation use cases.
An internal 2024 hackathon project focused on structured legal-request intake, built with Sanket Mishra and Punit Batra, awarded third prize, and later shaped into a shipped product surface led by me.
A product-systems arc that started with self-serve questionnaire setup for template workflows, was extended to third-party paper on the same foundation, and then evolved into the current Workflow Manager.
A widely shared LeetCode discuss post that has crossed 4.6M views and became a durable interview-prep reference for a large number of engineers.
A public GitHub repository for company-wise LeetCode questions that has grown to 19.3k stars and 5.5k forks.
A public resume template on Overleaf that many people have used as a starting point for their own resumes.
Krishna Dey