About

Chandan is a highly skilled and experienced engineering leader with a passion for solving complex problems end to end. With over 8 years of relevant experience, he has a proven track record of driving scalable solutions to data-intensive and optimization problems. Currently, he is working as a Senior Software Engineer at meta, where he is building a platform to accelerate the adoption of Commerce Ads. Chandan has extensive hands-on experience in developing large-scale concurrent and distributed fault-tolerant backend platforms and several business-critical products. He also has experience in real-time data aggregation platforms and systems that improve the applied ML ecosystem. His technical expertise includes Go, Python, and Scala, as well as Machine learning and Distributed Computing frameworks like Tensorflow, Keras, Kubeflow, Scikit-Learn, Flink, Spark, and Kafka. Before joining meta, Chandan worked as a Lead Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform at Grab, where he led several projects that involved building and improving the scalability and performance of real-time consumer systems and internal platforms. He has also worked as a Software Engineer at Works Applications, Singapore, where he was responsible for full-stack app development for new features as well as supporting and improving existing features for the Chat team. Additionally, he has worked as a Summer Intern at Goldman Sachs, India. Chandan holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra. He also has a strong educational background in Mathematics and Computer Science from Kerala Samajam Model School. Chandan is a Competitive Programming enthusiast who regularly participates in programming challenges like Facebook Hacker Cup, Google Code Jam, and has represented his college in ACM-ICPC, Asia Regionals '14 and '15. His diverse skill set and experience make him an ideal candidate for roles in Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Backend, AWS, and Product Management.