Adhityaa Chandrasekar
CEO And Co-Founder at Subtrace (YC W25)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAdhityaa Chandrasekar is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building developer tooling and backend infrastructure, currently leading Subtrace (YC W25) to create Chrome DevTools–style observability for backends. He combines hands-on engineering from roles at Google with startup leadership, bridging product vision and low-level systems work. His open-source contributions to coala show a focus on code quality, tooling ergonomics and documentation, while early backend and database schema work on Commento highlights practical experience designing data integrity and triggers. Trained at IIT Madras and the University of Waterloo, he blends strong academic foundations with production-scale execution. Based in San Francisco, he brings a rare mix of full-stack fluency, SRE experience, and founder-level product instincts to developer-facing infrastructure problems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasMaster's in Computer Science, Master's in Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Stackoverflow
179reputation
3kreached
2answers
1question
Github Skills (27)
postgresql10
back-end-development10
python10
schema-design10
code-analysis10
trigger10
lint10
sql10
database-design10
db-schema10
database-schema10
backend10
schema10
documentation10
testing9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
adtac/commento
Apr 2017 - Feb 2021
A fast, bloat-free comments platform (Github mirror)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Database Engineer
Backend Developer & Database EngineerContributions:9 releases, 578 commits, 143 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Adhityaa contributed to the Commento platform's backend by adding the initial PostgreSQL schema and setting up database triggers for managing comment scores and thread locking. The user's work involved defining the database tables, their relationships, and the triggers responsible for maintaining data integrity. This fundamental work established the database structure and functionality for the comment platform.
commentsmarkdowngithub-mirror
coala/coala-bears
Mar 2016 - Jul 2017
Bears for coala
Role in this project:Backend Developer & Technical Writer
Backend Developer & Technical WriterContributions:2 releases, 18 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Adhityaa primarily contributed to backend code improvements and documentation updates within the coala-bears repository. They addressed a bug in the PerlCriticBear by modifying configuration and updating test files. Further, they updated the README and RELEASE_NOTES to reflect the latest release (0.8.0), and made consistent changes to replace "coala-analyzer" with "coala" across the documentation and codebase. Their work demonstrates a focus on code quality, maintainability, and project documentation.
linterpythonbearsgenericlanguages
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.