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title: "Raghav Chitkara - Senior Software Engineer in India | Tal"
description: "Meet Raghav Chitkara, Senior Software Engineer @ Cloudera | AI Inference & LLM Infra | Kubernetes | Cloud-Native AI based in India. AI stack includes claude code, cursor, and vLLM."
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# Raghav Chitkara on Tal

## Headline

Senior Software Engineer @ Cloudera \| AI Inference & LLM Infra \| Kubernetes \| Cloud\-Native AI

## Location

India

## AI stack

claude code

cursor

vLLM

## Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at Cloudera, Feb 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Working on on\-premises and Private Cloud Cloudera’s AI Inference platform, building infrastructure for scalable and high\-performance inference of generative AI and large language models\. Building and improving AI inference and model\-serving infrastructure using Go, Kubernetes, KServe, Knative, vLLM, and related cloud\-native technologies\. Working on LLM inference optimization\. Designing distributed systems for low\-latency, high\-throughput inference workloads\.

SDE 2 Backend at ShareChat, Dec 2021 \- Feb 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Associate Software Engineer at Amdocs, Aug 2020 \- Nov 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Data Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Intern at Fujitsu India, Jan 2019 \- Jun 2019 · 6 mos, Pune/Pimpri\-Chinchwad Area

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Punjab Engineering College

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