Chandra Chowdaiah

At Brane, my work centered around NSL platform projects, a next-gen no-code platform enabling the development and execution of solutions through Natural Solutions Language (NSL). I served as both a Group Solution Leader and Architect.

https://www.braneenterprises.com/platform

Key Responsibilities

• Led a team of 20+ high-performing engineers in delivering platform projects, with a strong emphasis on quality through comprehensive unit and integration testing.
• Working with the SAAS team to understand the requirements, gaps in the implementation, and change requests.
• Conduct initial research and conceptualize technical requirements and ideas, collaborating with stakeholders to ensure alignment with business goals.
• Develop detailed design documents and technical specifications, then break down features into stories and tasks for distribution among the team.
• Monitor team progress, providing technical guidance, reviewing code, and overseeing the merging process to ensure quality and efficiency.
• Coordinate with Release Management, QA, PSR, and Infra teams for seamless feature deployment.
• Manage team development through recruiting, performance reviews, goal-setting, and training, and collaborate with the sustenance team to resolve customer issues.
• Implementing frameworks and debugging critical issues as and when need arises.

Projects Managed

• Metadata Versioning
• DB layer Tenant Isolation
• Distributed Job Handler
• Integration Adapters
• CMS Integration
• Workflow Builder
• MonoRepo
• Slot Management and Rostering

Notable Contributions

• Addressed a long-standing Kafka pileup issue by optimizing various parameters.
• Conducted a performance analysis to replace Athena with Postgres and MongoDB with S3, resulting in a 30-50% improvement in query efficiency.
• Developed a custom constraint in MongoDB to prevent duplicate versions at different vantage points.
• Built a framework for the NSL platform using Apache Camel, allowing integration with hundreds of adapters and reducing adapter development time to just a few days.

At Oracle, I have designed and developed solutions across various domains, including Integration Cloud Service, Managed File Transfer, SOA, and Adapters, serving as both an Individual Contributor and Architect.

Key Responsibilities

• Conducted requirement analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, performance engineering, and sustenance of applications.
• Created and managed Helm charts and deployment scripts for efficient application deployment.
• Developed scripts for the Infra team to provision the necessary infrastructure for tenant onboarding.
• Collaborated with Release Management, QA, and PSR teams to coordinate seamless deployments.
• Code review and mentoring junior members.
• Constant client interaction to resolve critical issues.

Products worked

• Integration Cloud Service
• Managed File Transfer
• File Server
• Adapters
• SOA

Notable Contribution

• Exposed a SFTP based Fileserver instance serving a hundreds of tenant by exposing a range of ports and exposing a k8s service per port.
• Created a filesystem backed by Object Storage and adapted it into an SFTP server.

At Unibiz, I designed and developed solutions for Rental, Work Order, and POS domains, catering to the entertainment and construction industries, while serving as an Individual Contributor.

https://www.unibiz.com/products/r2.html

Key Responsibilities

• Design, Develop and Test features. Work with support team to resolve production issues.
• Led a team of 4 engineers and managed the monthly release of the CR2 product for 3 years.
• Code Review and Mentoring junior members.

Products Worked

• R2
• CR2
• R2Web

Notable Contributions

• Developed a framework for generating a Swing UI and RTF-based documents from a flat file metadata.
• Resolved a memory leak issue, which was pending for over a year, in a specific customer use case caused by an external library.