About

Chirag Kantharia is a system generalist with over 23 years of experience in the tech industry. He has a wide range of experience, from cloud computing to embedded systems. Chirag has built several products from scratch that are currently in production. He is passionate about exploring ways to make systems more efficient and productive, and he is a minimalist who is fanatic about code quality and readability. Currently, Chirag works at Workspan as an SRE Lead. He is responsible for leading SRE initiatives for infrastructure used by nearly 1000 companies across 160+ countries for their partner management system needs. Prior to his current role, Chirag worked at Zededa as a Software Architect. Being one of the first engineers, he contributed to nearly all aspects of Zededa SaaS platform. He contributed to microservices powering the Zededa platform, CLI utility to manage customer deployments, orchestration layer, infrastructure as code, customer data management, monitoring, alerting, and logging. The tech stack used Golang, Python, Docker, Kafka, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Kibana, Hashicorp Vault. For infrastructure provisioning, they used terraform and ansible. Chirag also co-founded Korero Systems, where he worked as a Software Architect. He was responsible for product design and infrastructure. Chirag holds a B.Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Chirag's tech stack includes SRE, infra, Senior Software Engineer, test, Ansible, Terraform, Redis, Docker, Cassandra, Elastic Search, Kafka, Microservices, Python, Golang, and product designer.