Chinmay Barve

VP of Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States17 yrs 3 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable AI systems.
Proven leadership in engineering and product development.
Strong background in data infrastructure and analytics.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Leader with expertise in AI and data systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software EngineeringCloud Computing

Other Skills

HadoopJavaDistributed SystemsPHPMapReduceScalabilityRESTWeb ServicesSpringAlgorithmsEclipseProgrammingScalaSoftware Development

Experience

17 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Nooks

Vice President of Engineering

Sep 2025 – Present · 8 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

We are building an exceptional team. Message me if you want to:
Build entirely new AI products with and for our extremely passionate users and invent differentiated human-in-the-loop workflows and data systems.
Work on the cutting edge of low latency, high accuracy audio/voice AI systems that have to support well over a million voice calls per day.
Scale systems and data infra: Terabytes of analytics/ML data, billions of objects imported/exported, thousands of DAUs, with users spending several hours in the product per day. And all these numbers will be outdated by the time you read this 🚀
Scale our UX: As the platform grows, we need to manage complexity, keep the UX intuitive and easy to use. Ton’s of interesting frontend/UX engineering challenges here.
Scale our codebase and development processes: Our team is growing fast, and we are shipping a lot!

HadoopJavaDistributed SystemsPHPMapReduceScalability+10

Mixpanel

5 roles

Senior Vice President of Engineering and Support

May 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

SVP responsible for Engineering (Product, Infra, Data, Growth, AI, R&D) and Customer Support. Also managed Product, Product Marketing, and Perf Marketing at various points.

Vice President Of Engineering

Promoted

Jul 2020 – May 2024 · 3 yrs 10 mos

I lead the engineering team at Mixpanel.

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Jan 2019 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

Responsible for Analysis product - Analytical capabilities, dashboards, user experience of core product and web and query infrastructure. Engineers, Product Managers and Designers work closely in autonomous pods, focus on customers, innovate and push the boundaries of product analytics.

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs

Responsible for Mixpanel’s core analysis functionalities (Cohorts, Segmentation, Funnels, Retention, Flows, etc). Team works on all layers of the tech stack - web, apis, as well as query engine and storage.

Tech Lead and Manager

Mar 2016 – Jan 2017 · 10 mos

Tech Lead and Manager for the Notifications Infrastructure team at Mixpanel.

Forbes technology council

Member

Jun 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Self.

Angel Investor

Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

Investing in stellar founders working on exciting problems - Kapa.ai, PencilSpaces.com / Spacebar.ai, Uberduck.ai

Twitter

Staff Software Engineer

Jul 2012 – Mar 2016 · 3 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Tech Lead for Direct Messages (DM) Infrastructure. Most recently, I led the Group DM effort. Previously worked on the Tweet Service which serves all the tweets (the core tweet object) on Twitter.

Yahoo

Tech Lead/Engineering Manager, Yahoo Search

Jun 2010 – Jul 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Engineering Manager
Designed and developed a hosted vertical web crawler for use on Yahoo properties. Powered by Hadoop MapReduce

Office of information technology, georgia tech

2 roles

Research Assistant

Aug 2009 – May 2010 · 9 mos · Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Worked with the Entertainment Intelligence Lab at Georgia Tech under Dr. Mark Riedl. Developed a game engine for the iPhone for playing geo-location based games that require people to walk (uses iPhone GPS). A game written for one location can be converted into game for another location using the intelligent browser-based tool that uses map data.

Web Developer

Jan 2009 – May 2009 · 4 mos · Atlanta Metropolitan Area

PHP/MySQL/AJAX development on Gatech's Linux servers.

Electronic arts

Software Engineer Intern

May 2009 – Aug 2009 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Worked with EA's Global Online Studio on Blaze, a game server used by several EA games. Worked mainly on the Outbound HTTP component of the server. Added HTTP 1.1 Chunked Transfer Encoding Support to Blaze. Also, integrated libcurl in the out-bound HTTP framework of Blaze to provide full HTTP 1.1 support. All my work was shipped!