Arighna Chakrabarty
Senior Software Engineer (L5) at Google
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Summary
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Top SchoolArighna Chakrabarty is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building high-performance networking and cloud systems, currently at Google after impactful engineering roles at Microsoft on Azure's Application Gateway. A Python enthusiast and former GSoC contributor to the widely used SymPy project, he brings both deep systems engineering chops and meaningful open-source contributions, including work on symbolic math and quaternion operations. He has driven performance and reliability improvements—reducing CI build times by 80% and cutting daily support cases through proactive observability—and led dataplane efforts and critical feature launches like runtime DNS and gRPC support. Trained at IIT Guwahati in ECE, he combines competitive coding rigor with a passion for deep learning and community-driven open source, often surfacing subtle documentation and algorithmic fixes that improve long-term maintainability.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiISC, ICSE, Science, 97 %, ISC, ICSE, Science, 97 % at Don Bosco School, Bandel
English, Hindi, Bengali
Github Skills (6)
math-functions10
computer-algebra10
math10
python10
maths10
documentation9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sympy/sympy
Dec 2017 - Aug 2019
A computer algebra system written in pure Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:138 commits, 72 PRs, 328 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Arighna primarily contributed to the documentation and implementation of the `collect_const()` function, focusing on clarifying the parameters and usage within the `sympy/simplify/radsimp.py` module. Further contributions were focused on modifying docstrings, removing and adding whitespaces, and other minor changes. The user also worked on code for computing negative powers of a quaternion, and fixing and modifying test cases related to quaternion and other mathematical functions.
mathpythonsciencecomputer-algebra-systemalgebra
ArighnaIITG/DS-AL
Dec 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:10 PRs, 52 pushes, 8 branches in 8 months
pythoncppalgorithms-and-data-structurescompetitive-programmingdata-structures
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