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Chitwan Awasthy

Tech Lead @ Cleartrip | Technical Leadership, Software Design

Bengaluru

9+ years of work experience

Cleartrip
Oct 20251 yr 2 mosPresent

Hybrid

Lead a team of engineers building large-scale, low-latency hotel search, discovery, and payments platforms, owning estimation, HLD, and LLD for all team projects. • Designed the search result experience end to end, delivering map search, multi-dimensional filters, loyalty-aware results, and a coupon engine. • Led a major payments overhaul, with a smooth production rollout. • Designed an extensible rewards module for a large hotel chain integration across multiple teams. • Authored the engineering deep dive on our hotel search architecture: https://cleartrip.tech/behind-the-scenes-crafting-the-hotel-search-experience-9375c823a744 • Mentor and grow the team through 1:1s, bootcamps, and hiring.
Cleartrip
Sep 20232 yrs 2 mosOct 2025

Bengaluru

• Led the redesign of the hotel search platform (v3 and v4), significantly improving latency and scalability. • Designed a high-throughput promotions platform from scratch, with a large cut in latency and a multi-fold increase in throughput. • Architected cross-vertical hotel recommendations and ranking models in collaboration with multiple teams. • Built a business-controlled hotel slotting system for dynamic merchandising. • Drove JVM and GC tuning that substantially reduced infrastructure footprint and performance alerts. • Improved API performance and strengthened security practices.
Cleartrip
May 20221 yr 5 mosSep 2023

Bengaluru

• Led design of the rate and inventory serving system, optimising query performance and scaling Kafka, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch. • Led an on-time migration of the search service from Node.js to Java and built cancellation and refund flows. • Prepared services for peak sale traffic through JVM tuning, caching optimisation, and load testing. • Introduced code quality tooling, testing guidelines, and interview question banks.
CoreValue Technologies
Jul 202110 mosApr 2022

• Designed an end-to-end microservices pipeline for an e-commerce content platform, from client onboarding to customised storefront pages, with workflow orchestration and cloud-based async processing.
CoreValue Technologies
Dec 20208 mosJul 2021

• Built event-driven microservices for an IoT platform covering energy insights, asset health monitoring, and predictive maintenance, using device telemetry and streaming.
DeCurtis Corporation
Aug 20204 mosNov 2020

Bengaluru

Worked on an enterprise guest experience platform for international cruise lines. • Built core features including authentication, voyage search, document scanning, multi-lingual content, and a full booking system. • Standardised event contracts across microservices using Avro and a schema registry. • Led microservice consolidation to reduce resource footprint and built shared libraries. • Developed batch integrations with third-party reservation, property management, and F&B systems.
DeCurtis Corporation
Jul 20182 yrs 2 mosAug 2020

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

DeCurtis Corporation
Feb 20171 yr 6 mosJul 2018

Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

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Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science

Institute of Engineering and Technology,alwar

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Headline

Tech Lead @ Cleartrip | Technical Leadership, Software Design

About

As a Tech Lead at Cleartrip, I lead a dynamic team of engineers in developing robust, low-latency hotel search, discovery, and payments platforms. My responsibilities span end-to-end design, estimation, and implementation of high-level and low-level designs for key projects, including search experience enhancements, payment overhauls, and rewards systems. I am skilled in technical leadership, software design, and backend development. My career is built on a commitment to delivering innovative solutions and mentoring team members through consistent guidance, bootcamps, and hiring initiatives.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

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codex

cursor

n8n

Work experience

Tech Lead at Cleartrip, Oct 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Hybrid, Lead a team of engineers building large-scale, low-latency hotel search, discovery, and payments platforms, owning estimation, HLD, and LLD for all team projects. • Designed the search result experience end to end, delivering map search, multi-dimensional filters, loyalty-aware results, and a coupon engine. • Led a major payments overhaul, with a smooth production rollout. • Designed an extensible rewards module for a large hotel chain integration across multiple teams. • Authored the engineering deep dive on our hotel search architecture: https://cleartrip.tech/behind-the-scenes-crafting-the-hotel-search-experience-9375c823a744 • Mentor and grow the team through 1:1s, bootcamps, and hiring.

Software Development Engineer III at Cleartrip, Sep 2023 - Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, • Led the redesign of the hotel search platform (v3 and v4), significantly improving latency and scalability. • Designed a high-throughput promotions platform from scratch, with a large cut in latency and a multi-fold increase in throughput. • Architected cross-vertical hotel recommendations and ranking models in collaboration with multiple teams. • Built a business-controlled hotel slotting system for dynamic merchandising. • Drove JVM and GC tuning that substantially reduced infrastructure footprint and performance alerts. • Improved API performance and strengthened security practices.

Software Development Engineer II at Cleartrip, May 2022 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, • Led design of the rate and inventory serving system, optimising query performance and scaling Kafka, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch. • Led an on-time migration of the search service from Node.js to Java and built cancellation and refund flows. • Prepared services for peak sale traffic through JVM tuning, caching optimisation, and load testing. • Introduced code quality tooling, testing guidelines, and interview question banks.

Software Development Engineer II at CoreValue Technologies, Jul 2021 - Apr 2022 · 10 mos, • Designed an end-to-end microservices pipeline for an e-commerce content platform, from client onboarding to customised storefront pages, with workflow orchestration and cloud-based async processing.

Software Development Engineer at CoreValue Technologies, Dec 2020 - Jul 2021 · 8 mos, • Built event-driven microservices for an IoT platform covering energy insights, asset health monitoring, and predictive maintenance, using device telemetry and streaming.

Senior Software Development Engineer at DeCurtis Corporation, Aug 2020 - Nov 2020 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Worked on an enterprise guest experience platform for international cruise lines. • Built core features including authentication, voyage search, document scanning, multi-lingual content, and a full booking system. • Standardised event contracts across microservices using Avro and a schema registry. • Led microservice consolidation to reduce resource footprint and built shared libraries. • Developed batch integrations with third-party reservation, property management, and F&B systems.

Software Engineer at DeCurtis Corporation, Jul 2018 - Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Associate Software Engineer at DeCurtis Corporation, Feb 2017 - Jul 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Institute of Engineering and Technology,alwar

Public links

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