Summary
Aditya Chadha is a Staff Software Engineer based in Berlin with 12 years of deep, hands-on experience designing and scaling information retrieval and semantic search systems. He has led end-to-end architecture and delivery of high-throughput, multi-tenant search platforms at TomTom, HERE, Zalando and earlier at Naukri, combining expertise in Lucene, Vespa, distributed systems and ML-driven relevance. Known as a "search guy" on GitHub, he blends practical engineering—event-sourced, eventually-consistent architectures and low-latency pipelines—with research-minded interests in learning-to-rank, sequence tagging and natural language interfaces. Colleagues rely on him for technical leadership, mentoring and translating complex IR research into production-ready solutions that operate at web scale. An uncommon strength is his consistent focus on operational SRE considerations and pricing/market strategy for search-as-a-service products, not just algorithms.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Morehouse College
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
AISSCE, AISSCE at Modern School, Barakhamba Road