Shishir Chandra

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable distributed systems.
Strong leadership in engineering management roles.
Proficient in cloud technologies and data engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack engineer with expertise in distributed systems and cloud technologies.

Contact

shishirsastra@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringDistributed SystemsEngineering ManagementComputer Science

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAirflowAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache FlumeApache KafkaApache SparkApache Spark StreamingBig DataCassandraCloud ComputingDesign PatternsDockerElasticSearchGolangHadoop

About

Experienced Engineering Lead with a demonstrated history of working with distributed systems, transactional systems and cloud technologies. Skilled in development and automation technologies Java, Linux, shell, flume, goblin, docker, test ng, Jenkins, hdfc, performance benchmarking, Kafka, Cassandra, redis, Postgres, elastic search, spark streaming, real-time data processing, Oracle, MySQL, http rest, thrift. Strong engineering professional with a B.Tech focused in Computer science

Experience

Google

Engineering Leader

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Target

3 roles

Director Of Technology - Distributed Platform Engineering

Promoted

Dec 2022 – Dec 2024 · 2 yrs

Building and scaling smart distributed data processing platform decoupled from execution engine and underlying infrastructure. Low latency and high processing throughput is the core of it.

Apache KafkaCloud ComputingBig DataAirflowDockerDistributed Systems+19

Director of Engineering

Nov 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

Engineering leader heading platform charter of building stable scalable and resilient distributed systems.

Engineering ManagementComputer ScienceData Engineering

Senior Engineering Manager - Data Platforms

Feb 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

Leading engineering initiatives of building scalable low latency distributed data systems to enable and empower Target's complex inventory management supply chain systems.

Engineering ManagementComputer Science

Scaler academy

Technical mentor

Jan 2020 – Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Working with a group of experienced engineers to excel in their technical careers and improve their in depth understanding on building scalable systems, system design, data structures and algorithms. A handful of them are have now moved to companies like Microsoft, amazon and some reputed startup’s.

Computer Science

Adobe

Senior Computer Scientist

Jul 2019 – Feb 2020 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Leading the effort on some of the end to end initiatives for applications and platforms in multicloud environment under adobe cloud platforms org

Computer Science

The apache software foundation

Contributor

Jan 2019 – Mar 2025 · 6 yrs 2 mos

ElasticSearchLuceneData Engineering

Apple

Senior Software Engineer-4/ Staff Engineer

Feb 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Data team in ad platforms engineering team. Working on the design and architecture of the new data reporting and data processing pipelines with a goal of highly scalable and distributed processing system. Hands on experience in technologies like, Kafka, Cassandra, Flume, Redis, Zookeeper, spark streaming, airflow, oracle, postgres, hive, solr, elastic search. Also, hands on in automating the system and pipeline. Hands on with platforms like data ingestion platform, data processing platform, real-time processing systems.

Computer Science

Cohesity

Member of Technical Staff

Jan 2018 – Feb 2018 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Computer Science

Inmobi

3 roles

Technical Lead

Feb 2014 – Jan 2018 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Distributed computing, Kafka, elastic search, IAM and SSO applications , RBAC, rate limiting, rest apis, redis, event notification system, framework development and performance metrics and benchmarking, distributed tracing systems

Computer Science

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2013 – Feb 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

Role: Owning end to end a ad relevance module of InMobi ad network from development and automation prospective.
Technology: Java, iBatis, HDFS, Shell scripting, Hadoop, webdriver, postgres, hibernate

JavaComputer ScienceAmazon Web Services (AWS)Web ApplicationsDesign Patterns