Summary
Chaitanya Desai is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Jose with eight years of experience building enterprise and web applications across HR tech and e-commerce domains. He has delivered features and microservices at scale using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Elasticsearch, MongoDB and REST/SOAP integrations, and currently contributes to UKG’s HCM product. Known for rapid learning and prototyping, he’s been expanding into Big Data (Hadoop, Spark), Scala and Kafka beyond his day-to-day work. His background includes hands-on legacy-to-modern platform work at Verizon and Hotwire, giving him a practical appreciation for production stability and iterative feature delivery. Colleagues would describe him as inquisitive and engineering-focused—someone who pairs feature design with pragmatic implementation to add measurable business value.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
San José State University
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology, First class with Distinction, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology, First class with Distinction at K. J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information Technology
English