Chaitanya Narra

Engineering Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India14 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Built diverse engineering teams from scratch.
  • Led successful migration of enterprise customers.
  • Architected scalable platforms for high-demand applications.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech engineering leader with expertise in team development and backend systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementTeam DevelopmentBack-end Web DevelopmentSystems Engineering

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)C (Programming Language)CollaborationGrafanaMongoDBNode.jsPlatform ArchitectureProduct DevelopmentPrometheus.ioRecruiting

Experience

Notion

2 roles

Site Lead

Nov 2023Nov 2025 · 2 yrs · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

  • Responsible for active communication & building trust with stakeholders in the US across departments like Engineering, Product, Human Resources, Recruiting & Finance, to ensure a healthy working environment for teams based out of India.
  • Helped grow the Hyderabad site into a diverse team of 55 members. Responsible for building Notion's recruiting brand in India, by conducting recruiting events, talking about Notion Hyderabad's culture and work, and hiring senior engineering talent.
  • Built 4 Engineering teams from 0 -> 1 in Hyderabad across Product, Infrastructure & AI.
Team DevelopmentEngineering Management

Engineering Manager

Nov 2021Nov 2025 · 4 yrs · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

  • Responsible for migrating many of Notion's Enterprise customers from their existing tools like Confluence, Asana, Monday, Evernote and Trello by collaborating with GTM stakeholders across regions.
  • Worked with cross-functional stakeholders, and cross-site Engineering teams to help reduce friction in users onboarding journey into Notion.
  • Matched technical investments based on the pricing changes of the company's competitors by collaborating with Sales & Marketing leaders across regions.
Back-End Web DevelopmentAmazon Web Services (AWS)

Automate.io (acquired by notion)

Head of Engineering

Mar 2020Oct 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

  • Served as the Engineering point of contact for the company's acquisition and was responsible for the integration of the company's engineering team into the acquiring company.
  • Helped architect the platform v2.0 to handle scale, delayed job executions, deduplication of events, and to speed up building of the integrations.
  • Led the Engineering effort at the company, contributing majorly to the platform, and was responsible for the design and development of features and enhancements.
  • Directly responsible for the uptime, security, observability and scalability of the complete infrastructure.
  • Drove visibility and accountability by implementing a project-management tool and helped optimize the Engineering and QA process to help the team ship faster.
  • Managed and coached a team of 12 developers, contributing to code-reviews, technical discussions and scrum planning.
  • Responsible for upholding the InfoSec policy of the company, in my capacity as the Data Security Officer.
Engineering ManagementC (Programming Language)

Accpre software technologies private limited

CTO & Technical Lead

Dec 2015Jan 2020 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

  • Served as the Engineering and Product point of contact for the acquisition of the Restaurant POS product by Moneris, a fintech company based in Canada.
  • As part of the acquisition was responsible for collaborating & building trust with the Canadian team, was responsible for design and delivery of the product for the Canadian market.
  • Led the Engineering effort at Banyan, contributing majorly to the backend code, responsible for the design, development, delivery, support & testing for all Banyan features.
  • Drove the product roadmap by collaborating with our customers & the Sales & Marketing team.
  • Drove the integration strategy and was the technical point of contact for integrating the product with other players in the restaurant ecosystem including but not limited to loyalty partners, payment gateways, online ordering aggregators and hardware providers.
  • Responsible for the hiring, onboarding, coaching & career planning of the entire engineering team of 6.
  • Spearheaded investments in developer productivity by setting up CI/CD. Drove implementation of project management tool for bug tracking, feature development, among the Engineering and Customer Success teams.
Engineering ManagementBack-End Web Development

Hewlett packard enterprise

Systems Engineer

Jul 2011Nov 2015 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Part of a team that worked on the transaction log for Distributed file systems using Consensus algorithms.
  • Implemented features on the HP File system's Transaction Log which was one of the most complex features of the file system.
  • Responsible for the end to end delivery of the Audit Log feature, collaborating with the QA contractor team, and Engineering team in Brazil and US.
  • Experience coding in C and collaborating with team members spread out across US and Brazil.
C (Programming Language)Systems Engineering

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Electronics & Communications Engineering

Aug 2007May 2011

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