About

Chinmay Acharya is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer II, currently working at Contentstack. With over 5 years of experience in the industry, Chinmay has a passion for seeing his products in the hands of users. He is primarily a backend developer who likes to go in-depth with the things he has learned and is always open to learning new technologies. Chinmay has experience in highly scalable backend development and designs his software with long-term goals in mind. He has worked on various databases, including MongoDB, MySQL, Elasticsearch, and PostgreSQL, and is proficient in cache technologies like Redis and Aerospike. He is also familiar with messaging systems like Kafka and RabbitMQ and has worked on frontend technologies like React. In his personal time, Chinmay has developed games like Tetris, Snake, and Space Invaders and has written chat servers using Node and SocketIO that are currently being used in production. He has a Master's degree in Computer Applications from Bhartiya Vidya Bhavans and a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from M.L. Dahanukar College. Chinmay has previously worked at BookMyShow as a Software Developer 1 and 2, where he built and owned the entertainment news feed platform Buzz and designed an event-driven, highly scalable, real-time reviews and ratings platform. He also introduced a micro-service that reverts offers in real-time based on events and built a discovery mechanism for offers that matches complex rules and serves under 10ms under high load. Chinmay was also part of the recruitment team for campus, SD1, and SD2 hiring. At Contentstack, Chinmay has worked on the Content Synchronization microservice, built a Multi-CDN Architecture and Cache Purging service, and made a central provider switchable, plug and play message-broker library. He focuses on cross-cloud/cloud-agnostic development and is proficient in technologies such as Docker, Node.js, Golang, Python, Dotnet, and Core. Overall, Chinmay Acharya is a highly skilled and passionate software engineer with a strong background in backend development and a keen interest in learning new technologies and building innovative products.