Hey, I’m Murali
Software engineer · Founder · CTO
Murali Krishnan A - I love building intelligent systems that scale.
I design and run the systems underneath products that serve 2.5 billion API calls a month - and build the teams that keep them boring.
Who
I build the systems underneath products people use every day - search, onboarding, payments.
Right now I am building at HighLevel - Twilio's third-largest customer, serving around two million companies worldwide on roughly 2.5 billion API calls a month. The scale is enormous, interestingly we call a DB small DB if it has 100 Million or less records!
Where
Technical Engineering Manager
Apr 2025 - now · 1 yr 3 mo
HighLevel · Dallas, TexasCurrent
Co-Founder & CTO
May 2023 - now · 3 yr 2 mo
Monkey Science · Bengaluru, IndiaCurrent
Software Engineer
Mar 2023 - May 2023 · 2 mo
Open Financial Technologies · Bengaluru, India
Co-Founder, CTO & Chief Product Architect
Jan 2022 - now · 4 yr 6 mo
Scriptyl · Kerala, IndiaCurrent
Application Dev. Engineer
Aug 2021 - Feb 2023 · 1 yr 6 mo
Unisys · Bengaluru, India
Technology Architect
Aug 2019 - Jun 2024 · 4 yr 10 mo
Humaid Badir Marine Shipping Est. · Dubai, UAE
B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering
2017 - 2021
APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University · India
What shipped
Open any one for the problem, the approach, and what it bought.
Stack
- Languages
- JavaScript / TypeScriptNode.jsGoPythonJavaKotlin
- Data & storage
- PostgresMongoDBRedisVector databasesRAGPub/Sub
- Infrastructure
- DockerKubernetesAWSGCPGit
- Foundations
- Data structures & algorithms
Also built
Personal and hobby projects.
Cypax
2021–2022
Natural language to Python, built before ChatGPT existed. Aimed at school students: describe the idea in plain English, then read the code it generates and learn the pattern.
First prize, Hackerflow by SurveySparrow
- NLP
- React
Project Python - borewell rescue robot
2019–2022
Genrobotics
Technical lead, volunteering. Rescue robotics for children trapped in borewells: sensor integration, real-time control, and fail-safes for a confined space where a second attempt is not an option.
- Arduino
- ROS
Competitive Coding Step by Step
2019–2021
NSSCE
Founded and ran a year-long mentorship program for Tier 2 and Tier 3 engineering colleges. Pattern-based training, mock interviews and contests for 100+ students. Participating colleges doubled their placement rates.
- Mentoring
- Competitive programming
Blockchain consent management for airports
2019–2021
Unisys Cloud 2020
A Hyperledger Fabric private chain that lets a traveler control what airport service providers can see. Contact details are masked, and every access is logged so the traveler can audit who read what.
Top 5 nationally, Unisys Cloud 2020
Building a consent system for airports on Hyperledger Fabric
- Hyperledger Fabric
- Blockchain
Virtual agent assisted VR shopping
2020–2021
NSSCE
Multi-user collaborative shopping, in-headset product customization and a virtual showroom.
- Unity
- AR
Rendezvous - VR conferencing
2019–2020
NSSCE
Conferencing on low-cost VR headsets, paired with a sensor wearable that tracks each joint in the body.
- VR
- Mixed reality
Hedge
2017–2019
Digital Masala Challenge
Browsing-activity monitoring for public internet spaces such as cafes and college hubs, scoring potential extremist activity, with a privacy warning shown before monitoring starts.
Won the Digital Masala Challenge; built on a productization grant from Facebook and Youth Ki Awaaz
I rewrote SSL in my first year of college. Here is what it taught me.
- Network security
- SSL
Play
You are a request on the path. Jump the 5xx, duck the timeouts.
You are a request. Space to jump a 5xx, ↓ to duck a timeout. Click the screen first - the keys only work once it has focus, so the page still scrolls normally.