About

Chakravarthy Varaga Pathangi is an ambitious and strategic engineering leader with over 17 years of experience in building products, services, data pipelines, and teams. He is a technically hands-on and passionate thought leader with a proven track record of success in building, growing, and leading teams that solve complex problems across domains and stacks. He is skilled in defining OKRs, building roadmaps, and translating business scopes into tech requirements and executing with teams. Chakravarthy collaborates and influences efficient, cost-effective, high throughput, large scale architectures on the cloud across teams and groups. He is a unique blend of engineering talent across Data Engineering, Distributed, and Backend systems. Chakravarthy is currently working as an Engineering Leader in Data Platform & Data products across the data lifecycle, Microservices for Gojek. He is currently building CRM Platform & Event Analytics from scratch and has hired and grown teams, built Clickstream from scratch, open-sourced, and had a revenue impact of xx $million. He has also built AdTech platform ingestion pipelines, overseen architecture, design, and managed software development through an external software vendor. Chakravarthy has also built A/B Tests, Experimentation platform, and Metric Analytics Platform. Chakravarthy has worked as a Staff Software Engineer in Applications & Data Platform for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where he enabled the Data Platform for HMH. He has also worked as a Lead Engineer in Platform & Data for Ericsson, where he led 6+ developers on development of SDKs, Tools, APIs for Open Architecture based cloud-agnostic, deployment-agnostic Big Data Analytics Platform, Delivery with in-source enabled contributions, Evangelised Analytics Platform to various business groups within Ericsson. He also led 3+ teams and designed architecture handling <100ms RTT in the cloud, a low-latency, distributed, scalable, real-time streaming solution. Chakravarthy holds a Master's degree in Computer Applications from IGNOU and a Bachelor's degree in Software Systems from Bharathidasan University. He is skilled in various technologies, including Go, Java, NodeJs, python, gRPC, Protobuf, SciPy, Kafka, Flink, Kubernetes, TIG stack, postgresql, Kapacitor, Terraform, Google Cloud Platform, and React. He is a firm believer in lean teams with rapid, iterative, impactful development and trusts the team and encourages