Software engineer · Los Gatos, California

Developer platforms
and the products
built on them.

I'm Chaitanya, a software engineer with 15 years of experience, the last ten at Netflix on studio and content-production systems. Most of my recent work starts with a gap that slows several teams down and ends as shared infrastructure other engineers can build on.

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15 yrsbuilding software
10 yrsat Netflix
~200apps on a UI platform I contributed to
300K+files in a single upload, handled reliably

Selected work

A few things I've built, and what happened to them after.

  1. 01

    A paved path for desktop apps

    Netflix had a well-worn path for shipping web apps and none for desktop. I built the build, code-signing, notarization and auto-update pipeline for Electron, generalized it with peer teams, and turned it into a 16-package framework behind a single scaffolding command. It's now a standard application type in the company's project CLI, with four teams building on it.

    ElectronCI/CDDeveloper experienceFederated GraphQL
    2023 – now
  2. 02

    Dependable large-file transfer

    Re-engineered browser-based upload in Content Hub for multi-terabyte assets and single submissions of more than 300,000 files, one of the platform's most failure-prone workflows, used by production teams and partners.

    AsperaReactReliability
    2018 – 2023
  3. 03

    Typed interfaces for orchestration pipelines

    Delivered GraphQL schema generation, publication and validation, so pipeline interfaces are typed and verifiable instead of based on convention. Earlier, built Mailbox, a multi-step workflow mechanism that preceded the orchestration pipelines now owned by a platform team.

    GraphQLSchema toolingWorkflows
    2018 – now
  4. 04

    Vendor asset delivery

    A desktop application that delivers assets to vendor facilities automatically by asset and workflow type, replacing manual downloads that could take hours of someone's day.

    ElectronNode.jsS3
    2023 – now
  5. 05

    Netflix's first in-house subtitling tool

    Built the first version, which supported localization during Netflix's international expansion and has since been carried forward by other teams.

    LocalizationProduct UI
    2016 – 2018

Experience

Owning problems end to end, from requirements to long-term support.

2016 – Present

Netflix

Senior Software Engineer · Los Gatos, CA

Studio Orchestrator 2023 – Present

  • Designed and maintain an internal Electron framework: SSO, federated GraphQL client, telemetry, structured logging, type-safe IPC, auto-updates and signed cross-platform builds.
  • Contributed to an application platform that lets product teams build, version and deploy UI apps; about 200 run on it today.
  • Migrated a legacy settings app onto the platform with AI-assisted tooling in considerably less time than planned; it became a reference example for the platform's maintenance model.

Content Hub 2018 – 2023

  • Content operations platform used by a few thousand people monthly. Worked on large-file upload, Mailbox, and the requests workflow that brings partner content into the studio pipeline.

Across teams

  • Conducted 50+ technical interviews; designed the UI problem-solving exercise and rubric, and keep recalibrating them for AI-assisted work.
  • Mentored new engineers; on a team with no dedicated designer, defined requirements and made product and UX decisions directly.
2011 – 2016

BloomBoard

Engineering Manager · Senior Software Engineer · Palo Alto, CA

  • Led engineering for teacher observation and evaluation tools used across multiple U.S. states and districts.
  • Guided the migration from PHP/AngularJS to Node.js/React, and designed the engineering hiring process.
  • Earlier, built evaluation tooling, marketplace data systems, and APIs for data export and third-party integrations.

Tools

What I work with.

Languages & runtime

TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js

Frontend & desktop

React, Electron, Vite, design systems, cross-platform packaging

APIs & data

GraphQL (federation, Apollo, schema tooling), REST

Platform & delivery

CI/CD, AWS S3, code signing & notarization, auto-updates, npm monorepos

Education & recognition

M.S., Computer Science

Software Engineering
University of Missouri–Kansas City

B.Tech., Electronics & Computer Engineering

Nagarjuna University

Recognition

Yellow Pages Developer Award · TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon, Sponsor Prize · Toyota Connected Vehicle Hackathon, Winner