About

Chandra Sekhar Saripaka is a Senior Expert Engineer at Shopee with over 17 years of experience in the industry. With a background in financial, telco, CMS, and identity management, he is a product developer, big data architect, and Data Scientist. Chandra is an expert in data crunching at terabytes scale on graph and Hadoop, and has conducted research on image search indexing and retrieval. He has provided architecture on enterprise integration and portals, search engines, and framework for real-time streaming analysis of news. Chandra's specialties include real-time stream analysis using Flink, Spark Streaming, and Kafka, as well as middleware integration with AWS Cloud and Solr Search and Recommendations Engine. He is also experienced in Hadoop on Cloudera and MapR, Java, J2EE, and Oracle with product development and data analytics. Chandra is a data modeller for NoSQL stores, document stores, and graph stores, and has expertise in performance tuning, data modelling, capacity planning, and partitioning on Oracle. He is also skilled in probabilistic topic modelling and real-time topic inferencing, and is an expert in graph databases such as DEX, Neo4J, iGraph, and graph traversal algorithms. Chandra has created a real-time data ingestion engine using message-oriented middlewares like Kafka and ActiveMQ, and is experienced in geospatial APIs development and ethical hacking. He is also knowledgeable in microservices using Docker containers and has a deep understanding of big data computational frameworks like Spark and Flink. Chandra is a contributor for Apache Carbondata and an expert in instrumentation and observability for distributed systems. Prior to joining Shopee, Chandra worked as VP Site Reliability Engineering and VP Data Engineering at DBS Bank. He holds a B.Tech in Electronics and Communications from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University and completed his schooling at St. Joseph's School. Chandra's tech stack includes search, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, AWS, integration, Neo4j, big data, SRE, Java, Docker, research scientist, NoSQL, microservices, software engineer, infra, and data engineering.