Summary
Adithya Chandra is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of experience building high-performance, distributed systems and scalable infrastructure from San Jose. He currently focuses on Kafka scalability and performance at Confluent, bringing deep expertise in streaming systems and production tuning. Previously at Amazon he led cluster management for Open Distro for Elasticsearch and contributed to the storage engine and global database features for Amazon Aurora, driving availability, cost, and partition-placement improvements. His early work at Adobe on Dreamweaver reflects a long-standing interest in shipping widely used products. He holds advanced engineering training from MIT and a B.Tech in Computer Science from NIT Karnataka, combining rigorous academic grounding with hands-on production experience. Colleagues would note his knack for translating complex distributed-system tradeoffs into pragmatic, measurable improvements that scale to millions of users.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Study Program, Engineering, Advanced Study Program, Engineering at M.I.T.
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
English, Kannada, Hindi