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RUSHABH CHALKE

Bengaluru

Summary

At Thinking Balloon I lead manufacturing and operations to ship controllable, long-duration stratospheric balloons that deliver real-time, assimilation-ready upper-air data. Earlier at Info Edge I scaled the Reporting & Insights service as a full-stack engineer.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Co-founder & CEO

Thinking Near Space Pvt. Ltd. (Thinking Balloon)
09.2025 - Current
  • Building a near-space sensing platform: controllable, long-duration stratospheric balloons that deliver assimilation-ready upper-air profiles (pressure, temperature, humidity, winds) to weather models in near real time.
  • Lead manufacturing & operations: vendor development, materials selection, flight procedures, QA, and field ops.
  • Own product roadmap, partnerships, fundraising, and regulatory interfaces.

Senior Software Engineer

Info Edge (Naukri) — Zwayam
02.2021 - 09.2025
  • Scaled and maintained the Reporting & Insights service for an enterprise recruitment automation platform used by large Indian enterprises.
  • Full-stack with backend focus: Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs; collaborated with UI teams to deliver end-to-end features.
  • Built event-driven pipelines using Apache Kafka & ActiveMQ to orchestrate jobs, applications, and notifications reliably at scale.
  • Owned CI/CD and cloud deployments across AWS and Azure; improved observability (logs/metrics/dashboards) and optimized cost/performance.
  • Mentored interns/juniors; promoted to Senior Software Engineer after two years based on impact and ownership. Intern → SWE → Sr SWE

Education

B.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering

Presidency University
Bengaluru, India
09-2021

Skills

  • Manufacturing & Operations: Vendor development, materials/BOM, production planning, QA/SOPs, field ops, regulatory
  • Languages/Frameworks: Java (Spring Boot), Python, SQL, MongoDB
  • Messaging & Data: Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ, REST APIs
  • Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Docker, Git, CI/CD, Linux
  • Web: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
  • Other: System design, observability/monitoring

Timeline

Co-founder & CEO

Thinking Near Space Pvt. Ltd. (Thinking Balloon)
09.2025 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

Info Edge (Naukri) — Zwayam
02.2021 - 09.2025

B.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering

Presidency University

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