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# Alok Tripathy on Tal

## Headline

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

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