About

Chinni Chaitanya is a self-taught programmer and occasional gamer who is passionate about discussing ideas, philosophy, and technology. With almost 5 years of relevant experience, he is currently working as a Senior Project Scientist at the Centre for Research on Start-ups and Risk Financing (CREST), where he is solving problems related to information extraction, semantic search, and building scalable machine learning models. Chinni's previous experience includes working as the Chief Technology Officer at YNOS Venture Engine, where he led the entire technology activities of the company ranging from infrastructure, product development, and intelligence. He also worked as the Lead Data Scientist at Foodstreet.in, where he formed and led a team of motivated individuals passionate about solving problems through data-driven methods. During his time there, he built novel production-ready algorithms for recommendations, time-series predictions, search, and sentiment analysis. He even established proof of concept for calculating the tidiness-index of a kitchen, close to real-time. Chinni's educational background is impressive, having completed his Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) and Master of Technology (M.Tech) dual degree program in Electrical Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. His tech stack is diverse and includes Research Scientist, Senior Software Engineer, ML, NLP, Search, infra, Data Scientist, and Sentiment Analysis. Chinni believes that great things are a beautiful combination of small things built in a great way, and he is committed to building products for early-stage entrepreneurs.