Kavindu Narathota
Work

Professional work · Jobber Inc

Home for Attachments: From Platform Foundations to Product Delivery

How customer needs, roadmap trade-offs, and storage modernization came together to enable a better way for service providers to manage job-related files.

Year
2026
Role
Staff Technical Product Manager - Backend Foundations
Focus
Platform foundations, storage modernization, cross-team delivery
Milestone
Showcased at Jobber Now, October 2026
Technologies
Ruby on Rails, ActiveStorage, Amazon S3, GraphQL

01 · Context

The problem

Photos, documents and other attachments associated with jobs were spread across the product experience. Creating a unified place for service providers to find and manage those files required the underlying storage foundations to evolve as well.

02 · Responsibility

The role

Kavindu connected the customer-facing opportunity with the platform work needed to make it possible: investigating backend dependencies, reviewing the remaining storage migration, and working with senior leadership and engineering management to establish a viable delivery path within an already committed roadmap.

03 · Decisions

The approach

Discovery showed that storage modernization was a critical dependency. Kavindu aligned the work to the customer outcome, prioritised the models needed by the feature first, and separated the launch-critical path from the longer work of migrating historical data and retiring legacy code.

04 · Execution

What Kavindu led

  • Established a phased plan connecting the storage migration to the product milestone.
  • Created clear ownership and progress tracking across attachment-owning models.
  • Aligned engineering capacity and dependencies with feature-team timelines.
  • Coordinated adoption work across backend, frontend and mobile stakeholders.
  • Communicated delivery risks and the remaining retirement work transparently.

05 · Impact

The outcome

The platform work unblocked the feature team to deliver Home for Attachments, giving service providers a unified experience for job-related files. The experience was showcased at Jobber Now in October 2026.

  • The launch-critical platform dependencies were addressed.
  • New attachment writes were consolidated onto the modern storage platform, according to internal program reporting.
  • Remaining legacy-client retirement was tracked separately rather than described as fully complete.