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I'm Chaitanya

Data & Software Engineer · Boston, MA

I build the systems behind the software—and sometimes the software itself.

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Chaitanya Chandurkar

Projects

Featured

JSON Semantic Diff

An open-source developer tool for reviewing meaningful JSON changes without noisy diffs.

Site GitHub

Electron + Angular

A type-safe Electron foundation that eliminates fragile IPC boundaries.

GitHub

NodePad

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

Site

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

dev.to · 2026

Why JSON array diffing is harder than it looks

 Type-Safe IPC Between Angular and Electron article cover

Hashnode · 2026

Type-Safe IPC Between Angular and Electron

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

Medium · TDS Archive · 2020

Spark structured streaming with HTTP REST endpoints serving JSON data

 Handling Late Arriving Dimensions Using a Reconciliation Pattern guest blog post cover

Databricks · Guest engineering blog · 2020

Handling Late Arriving Dimensions Using a Reconciliation Pattern

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

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