About

Chaitanya Varier is a Software Engineer at Aspect Build Systems, where he contributes to Bazel and builds products to simplify its adoption. He is a graduate of the University of Waterloo's prestigious Software Engineering program, with six co-ops in the areas of CI infrastructure, backend development, and mobile development at companies such as Snapchat, Yahoo, and CoreLogic. Chaitanya is an avid saxophonist and pianist, with over 12 years of experience studying, arranging, and performing. He has played for live audiences at events such as the Montreal International Jazz Festival and the MusicFest Canadian Nationals. Currently, Chaitanya is working as a Software Engineering Intern at Alphamantis Technologies, where he developed a sports event timing application for Android (Alphamantis EventWatch), featuring real-time broadcasting of events over Wi-Fi/LAN, event geo-tagging through GPS, event storage via SQLite databases, and customized preferences. He also acquired grounding in software architecture and network protocols including TCP and UDP. In the past, Chaitanya has worked as a Computational Fluid Dynamics Intern at Dawson College, where he built a CFD application in Java which solves the Winslow partial differential equations. He also worked as a Software Engineer at Serind Labs, where he wrote and deployed OAuth secured REST endpoints for user authentication in Node.js and MongoDB, and developed and shipped features as lead developer for Pineapple and WRKS Android apps via Google Play. Chaitanya's education history includes a BSE in Honours Software Engineering from the University of Waterloo, a DEC (CEGEP) in First Choice Pure and Applied Science from Dawson College, and a Secondary School - IB Program (Enriched) from Lakeside Academy. Chaitanya's tech stack includes Software Engineer, test, Backend, SDET, infra, CI/CD, Kotlin, Integration, Mobile, Jenkins, SQL, Python, Android, Spring, and Search. He has 2.11 years of relevant experience.