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Hello,

I'm Chaitanya

Data & software engineer · Boston, MA

I build the systems behind the software—and sometimes the software itself. I’m a Senior Data Engineer at Gopuff with 10+ years of experience. Outside work, I build open source tools and write about engineering.

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Projects

JSON Semantic Diff interface showing a comparison of JSON documents

JSON Semantic Diff

An open-source developer tool for reviewing meaningful JSON changes without noisy diffs.
Electron and Angular desktop app starter preview

Electron + Angular

A type-safe Electron foundation that eliminates fragile IPC boundaries
NodePad editor preview

NodePad

A sandboxed Node.js scratchpad for testing scripts without setup overhead.

Experience

Gopuff

Dec 2022 — Present

Senior Data Engineer

Led a self-service, contract-driven data platform adopted by 10+ teams establishing data contracts, schema governance, and standardized deployment workflows.

Stripe

May 2021 — Nov 2022

Software Engineer

Built Spark and Iceberg pipelines for a financial data warehouse, supporting financial reporting, enabling GAAP-compliant reporting and critical financial decision-making.

McGraw-Hill Education

Aug 2016 — Apr 2021

Software Engineer → Senior Software Engineer

Built analytics pipelines for learning products used by millions of students and teachers. Improved event processing and moved microservices to streaming pipelines.

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Writing

Why JSON array diffing is harder than it looks article cover

Why JSON array diffing is harder than it looks

dev.to · 2026
Type-Safe IPC Between Angular and Electron article cover

Type-Safe IPC Between Angular and Electron

Hashnode · 2026
Spark structured streaming with HTTP REST endpoints serving JSON data article cover

Spark structured streaming with HTTP REST endpoints serving JSON data

Medium · TDS Archive · 2020
Handling Late Arriving Dimensions Using a Reconciliation Pattern guest blog post cover

Handling Late Arriving Dimensions Using a Reconciliation Pattern

Databricks · Guest engineering blog · 2020

Research

Technical Skills

Data platforms
Spark · Kafka · Airflow · dbt · Dagster · Databricks · Snowflake
Cloud, infra & observability
AWS · Azure · Kubernetes · Terraform · Helm · Docker · Prometheus · Grafana · Datadog
Software engineering
Python · Scala · Java · TypeScript · Go · Node.js · Angular · Electron
Datastores & formats
Postgres · Delta Lake · Apache Iceberg · MongoDB · Elasticsearch · Parquet
And whatever the problem calls for...

Education

MS, Computer ScienceUniversity of Massachusetts Dartmouth

BE, Computer EngineeringUniversity of Mumbai

Connect

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