Chandan Jhunjhunwal is a seasoned senior lead software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack, enterprise-grade SaaS and product platforms. Based in California, he has led teams and shipped major modules at Coupa—designing contract and supplier collaboration systems, Pub/Sub-based CSM, and robust background job reliability with strong DB performance focus. As a former CTO and founder, he brings product instinct and hands-on experience across architecture, backend, frontend, and operations, having scaled teams up to 28 people and delivered across industries from education to e-commerce. He combines deep systems knowledge from early RDBMS work at IBM with practical cloud-era engineering at Fab.com and multiple startups. Comfortable wearing multiple hats, he’s known for organizing internal technical training and improving observability and performance across stacks. Notably, his background blends electrical engineering rigor (IIT Madras) with entrepreneurial grit, giving him a rare mix of theoretical grounding and product-first execution.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors & Masters of Technology, Electrical Engineering (Power Electronics), Bachelors & Masters of Technology, Electrical Engineering (Power Electronics) at IIT Madras
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Chandan Jhunjhunwal - Senior Lead Software Engineer at Coupa Software