Krish Chainani

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States14 yrs experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable data infrastructures.
Led development of Airbnb's real-time streaming platform.
Strong background in cloud computing and database management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on data infrastructure and cloud solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingData InfrastructureData AccessStreaming PlatformsData FrameworksReservation SystemsDatabase ManagementDatabase SolutionsCloud ApplicationsStartup OperationsTechnology SolutionsBusiness TechnologyData Management

Other Skills

Leading Development TeamsBatch ProcessingAI EnablementData Access SimplificationMySQLKafkaSparkFlinkGraphQLDatabase Schema RemodelingCachingQuery OptimizationView MaterializationSQL Language TranslatorApp-Level Replication Service

Experience

14 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs

Current Experience

Figma

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Jun 2024 – Present · 2 yrs · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote

Leading Data Infrastructure at Figma across ingestion, warehousing, batch processing, and AI enablement.

Cloud ComputingLeading Development TeamsData InfrastructureBatch ProcessingAI Enablement

Airbnb

3 roles

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Aug 2023 – Jul 2024 · 11 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Simplifying data access for product teams at Airbnb.

Data Access SimplificationData Access

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2020 – Aug 2023 · 3 yrs · San Francisco, California, United States

Tech Lead on the Data Frameworks team building Riverbed - Airbnb's streaming platform to build near real-time materialized views to improve performance and product agility by decoupling host and guest product surfaces.
Technologies: MySQL, Kafka, Spark, Flink, GraphQL etc

MySQLKafkaSparkFlinkGraphQLStreaming Platforms+1

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2018 – Aug 2020 · 2 yrs · San Francisco, California, United States

Worked on the Reservation system (and other core services) primarily on scaling challenges including database schema remodeling, caching, query optimization, view materialization etc.

Database Schema RemodelingCachingQuery OptimizationView MaterializationReservation SystemsDatabase Management

Salesforce

2 roles

Lead Member Of Technical Staff

Jun 2015 – Aug 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Worked on various parts of the core salesforce application to support a new database for a public cloud offering - SQL language translator, app-level replication service, instant cloning of tenant data, data export and import tools, sync/async background job scheduler, comparator tool for databases.
Technologies: Postgres, LSM Store

SQL Language TranslatorApp-Level Replication ServiceData Export and Import ToolsBackground Job SchedulerDatabase SolutionsCloud Applications

Software Developer Intern

May 2014 – Aug 2014 · 3 mos · San Francisco, CA

Technology DevelopmentPayment IntegrationMarketingStartup OperationsTechnology Solutions

Carnegie mellon university

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Aug 2014 – Dec 2014 · 4 mos · Greater Pittsburgh Region

Teaching assistant for 18-842 Distributed Systems - distributed algorithms, clock synchronization, distributed agreement, mutual exclusion, replication, high-availability, peer-to-peer systems.
Responsible for holding office hours, answering student questions on the class forum, grading assignments and labs.

Deloitte

Business Technology Analyst

Jan 2012 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos

Database remodeling, dashboards, self-service reports, multidimensional cubes, Salesforce migrations.

Soundtrot

Co-Founder

Apr 2011 – Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Our mission is to bring community together through music festivals by providing a unique and connected travel and stay experience. Acquired by RoomnHouse (https://shorturl.at/ksA36)
I worked on various aspects including technology (php based web app, payment integration, async text messaging/email marketing flows), operations, marketing etc

Database RemodelingDashboardsSalesforce MigrationsBusiness TechnologyData Management