Bio
Hari Krishnan has over two decades of experience in building high-performing teams, designing scalable systems, and driving technical strategy for large enterprises and high-growth startups across industries like finance, telecom, logistics, and retail. He has led enterprise-wide initiatives in architecture, developer experience, test automation and AI adoption. His areas of interest include distributed systems, AI-native products and exploring how AI can be leveraged to rethink software delivery and next-gen developer experience.
Hari has spoken at several premier international conferences. Hari contributes to several open source projects and is an ambassador and technical steering committee member for AsyncAPI.
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Rexy Josh Dorado
Zero to $100m+ in lifetime funding, revenue / kumu co-founder / building and investing in Filipino media / writer of Maharlika comic
"The day we started working with Hari, we got a flood of full-page testimonials from our developers saying how happy and inspired they were by his insight and leadership—and their ability to grow with his help. Hari has great technical chops, that much is obvious—but more importantly, his ability to inspire and energize his teammates by working with them as a partner is something special. Highly recommend working with him if you are ever lucky enough to get the chance!"
Crystal Widjaja
Startup Advisor | Gojek | Reforge
"Hari is a joy and pleasure to work with! He can take complex, broad, and non-specific business problems and create detailed and organized project roadmaps. It is always a relief to have him working as part of a team to tackle our ongoing data and functional issues. Meetings with Hari and his team consistently result in a clear understanding of the project's status and ongoing development which I can use to update relevant parties. Extremely professional, dedicated, principled, and thorough developer and designer! Highly recommend."
Arief Fadillah
Co-Founder & CTO of MAKA Motors
"Worked with Hari for several tech solutions that could help my team to execute things related to Ops. All requirements that we requested always very well received, moreover he usually came up with some awesome ideas that obviously make our life in Ops easier. Found out he also has a good personality skills and attitude. Really enjoyed my time to work with him."
Ardelia Apti
Director of SOZO Skin (7Retail)
"I worked with Hari during his time consulting GO-JEK, specifically on the scope of Driver and Finance Portal; the technologies that we use day-to-day to manage our Driver operations from onboarding, data editing, financial processes and programs, etc. He was the Tech Lead and I was the Business Owner. Working with Hari was such a joyful and rewarding experience given the personal relationship that we manage to build as well as the professional learning I've gotten from him. I started the role with 0 background in tech, and Hari was the single person who taught me the most about my tech fundamentals and framework. His ability to dumb-down the tech framework to be easily digestible is a true testament of how he is the perfect combination of masterful engineer as well as business thought leader. We managed to deliver projects within short time-frame, with changing scope; all thanks to Hari's willingness to grasp the business context, embrace the urgency, and manage the team super efficiently. I totally recommend anyone looking for not only a master in engineering and tech solutions but also powerful business interventions to work with Hari. Definitely the best owner-tech lead relationship I've ever had to date."
Abhishek Dadoo
I believe in products and narratives | Fintech @ Hopper Technology Solutions (HTS)
"Hari has delivered a few projects for me. His teams delivery capability is top quality, but what's most impressive is that Hari is always involved in advising on the product road-map. He will tell you things like 'This is an ambitious feature at this stage of your company. It will bloat your budget. Is it the best bang for your buck?'. He wants to add immediate value to your tech product and has a very iterative and professional approach to project delivery."
