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Staff Engineer at Chalo

About

I make buses findable. Staff Engineer at Chalo, where I architect the real-time geo-spatial systems behind India's largest public transit platform. 200M+ GPS points/day, processed through stream pipelines that turn noisy sensor data into passenger experience. Previously designed ride-hailing systems at Shuttl, and built search, recommendations, and cloud infrastructure at HealthifyMe. 11 years of making messy real-world data behave.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

codex

opencode

Work experience

Staff Engineer at Chalo, Oct 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Identifying high-leverage foundational problems through data-driven analysis, building platform-level solutions, and driving org-wide adoption. - Traced route misclassification to fragmented geo-spatial logic across 4 services. Designed and shipped a unified SDK — now the standard. - Shipped probabilistic map-matching (99% fewer routing anomalies), H3-based spatial search (p99: 80ms → 5ms, +32% visibility) and several other revamps and improvements to improve passenger experience. - Partnered cross-functionally to close schedule prediction gaps — bus on-time arrival went from 87% to 91%. - Drove observability strategy across event-driven microservices: Sentry, Datadog, structured alerting.

Staff Engineer at Shuttl, Jan 2021 - Sep 2021 · 9 mos, - Diagnosed a double-booking problem in the seat reservation system caused by missing exclusivity guarantees during midnight booking spikes. Designed a range-aware reservation flow using distributed locks to enforce seat exclusivity across multi-stop trip segments (lock hold p99 < 300ms). Eliminated double-booking incidents. - Led architecture and end-to-end delivery of Tuktuk, a ride-hailing vertical from system design through launch. Hired and mentored a 4-person engineering team.

Senior Software Engineer at Shuttl, Nov 2019 - Dec 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos, - Designed MultiCache, a multi-key caching library (cache-aside) adopted across services to reduce redundant compute. - Contributed to the notifier service handling 10K+ msg/sec with delivery guarantees across push, SMS, and email channels. - Scaled the trip management system from capacity bottlenecks to 30K trips/day through targeted performance tuning.

Tech Lead at HealthifyMe, Jun 2017 - Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, - Built Food Search, a TRIE based search and auto-complete service. - Created Food2Vec, useful for food similarity, recommendation and clustering. - Built Coach Metrics, an elasticsearch based time series analytics platform. - Built StreaksV2, a fast and generic backend to keep track of activity streaks. - Anomalisa, an in-house anomaly detection service. - Built a realtime knowledge graph using users and their activities. - Containerized many services that were otherwise running like apps from 2010s. - Built in-app-advertisement backend.

Software Developer at HealthifyMe, Nov 2015 - Jun 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Smart Reminders, a probabilistic model to remind users to log a food they might have eaten - Group Chat, a chat platform for coaches to connect with users along with dedicated analytics - Built a machine learning model that recommends coaches to users based their language and health preferences - Built a load balancer for coaches that distributes users evenly across coaches based on availability and workload - Contributed in moving the HealthifyMe infrastructure to AWS - Built a slots based consultation booking platform

Project Engineer at Wipro, Sep 2014 - Nov 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Wrote a Java tool to pull and visualize Google Analytics data. Created and maintained a Django app to aggregate and monitor stats from a cluster of servers.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, VSSUT, Burla