About

Chidambaram Muthappan is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer III at Nike, where he leads the development of serving capabilities to integrate content recommendations on nike.com. With almost 8 years of relevant experience in the software engineering field, Chidambaram is a seasoned professional who has worked on several projects that have helped him acquire a diverse skillset. At Nike, Chidambaram has brainstormed new features for the Data Science Platform, which has enabled faster model development. He has also migrated machine learning services to Kubernetes clusters, resulting in faster deployments and better scaling. Chidambaram has collaborated with data scientists and data engineers to establish best practices for pipeline development, which has helped streamline processes and improve efficiency. Prior to his current role, Chidambaram was a Senior Software Engineer II at Nike, where he was responsible for building and delivering microservices backed by machine learning models to consumer-facing apps. He developed infrastructure to serve and A/B test real-time inferences using Kubernetes, Flask, and TensorFlow serving. Chidambaram also edited and evangelized blog posts for the Nike Digital Engineering Blogs and developed CI/CD pipelines for machine learning models using Jenkins 2. Before joining Nike, Chidambaram worked as a Research Assistant at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, where he developed chatbots for social experiments in Facebook and built and conducted experiments through Amazon Mechanical Turk. Chidambaram holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Amrita University. He also attended TVSMHSS before pursuing his undergraduate degree. Chidambaram's tech stack includes software engineering, machine learning, Kubernetes, data science, CI/CD, testing, Jenkins, microservices, Flask, infrastructure, data engineering, and big data. He is a highly motivated and skilled professional who is passionate about his work and is always looking for new challenges to tackle.