About

I'm Srinath Reddy, an engineer and founder based in India. I build Hawzu — a test management platform organised around a single question: is this release ready to ship?

That question is the reason the product exists. Most test management tools are, underneath, a database of test cases with reporting attached. They record what happened. They can't tell you whether it was enough. The interesting problem isn't storage — it's turning scattered evidence into a decision someone is willing to put their name against.

How I think about testing

Software is uncertain by nature. Testing doesn't remove that uncertainty; it reduces it enough for people to decide. Which means no single metric answers the shipping question. Confidence gets assembled — coverage, executions, defects, risk — until the pieces point the same way, and then a person judges. A tool's job is to make that assembly fast and honest, not to invent a number that pretends the judgement isn't happening.

How I work

I build systems end to end. I'd rather understand the whole thing than assemble it from parts I can't reason about. Hawzu is one codebase spread across an API, a web application and a handful of static sites — all of it mine, which means every decision in it still has a reason I can explain.

The decisions I care most about are the ones that stop data from lying. Freezing a release's analysis at sign-off so the numbers can't drift afterwards. Making a permission layer reject any route nobody declared, so a forgotten endpoint fails closed. Storing timestamps in UTC and formatting at the edge. Unglamorous choices, but they're what makes the output trustworthy. I've written a few of them down as principles.

Elsewhere

I write about testing, release decisions, and the engineering systems underneath them — deployment pipelines, caching, distributed work. It's collected under Writing, and some of it lives on the Hawzu blog. My work history is on the resume page, and what I'm doing right now is on Now.