About

Chetan Sharma is a highly skilled Software Engineer with over 6 years of experience in the industry. He is a graduate of Penn State University and holds an undergraduate degree from IIIT Hyderabad. His focus is on distributed systems and cloud computing, and he has a wealth of experience in this field. Chetan is currently employed at Google, where he works as a Software Engineer on Google Cloud. He has a deep understanding of programming languages such as C++, Python, Java, C#, SQL, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. He is also proficient in database systems such as MySQL, SQL, Redis, MongoDB, RocksDB, and Cassandra. Chetan has worked with cloud computing platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure Stack. He is also familiar with distributed computing frameworks like Apache Spark, MapReduce, and Kafka. Prior to joining Google, Chetan worked as a Software Engineer for Microsoft's Devices Supply Chain Engineering Group. He also worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at Penn State University, where he designed a new version of Apache Spark to run efficiently on AWS transient on-spot instances or background processes. This led to a 60% cost reduction. He also implemented a new technique for dynamic database backups and recovery for the log-structured merge-tree (LSM) based data stores using incremental backups and write-ahead logs. Chetan also invented new protocols to solve the problem of consistency during erasure coding for distributed systems. Chetan's education history includes a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Penn State University and a Bachelor of Technology Honors (BTech) in Electronics and Communications Engineering (Computer Engineering) from IIIT Hyderabad. He also attended DAV Public School in Dayanand Vihar. Chetan's tech stack includes a wide range of skills and expertise in software engineering, SQL, AWS, Spark, MapReduce, MongoDB, Redis, JavaScript, MySQL, Cassandra, Kafka, Azure, web development, Python, Java, and research science. With 9.03 years of relevant experience, Chetan is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer who is capable of handling complex projects and delivering results.