Summary
Chander Raja is a principal-level software engineering leader with over 20 years of experience and 11 years in senior management roles, currently leading software engineering at ST Engineering iDirect from Bethesda, MD. He combines deep embedded and networking expertise (C++, Linux, VxWorks) with a track record of architecting high-availability satellite networking stacks and modular product frameworks that cut customer costs and deployment times dramatically. Known for mentoring Agile teams and championing pragmatic reuse of boilerplate, he has driven migrations to modern tooling (protobufs/gRPC) and cross-platform UIs (Qt) to boost scalability and maintainability. His background spans real-time VoIP, multimedia systems, and pro-video recorders, where engineering tradeoffs yielded measurable revenue and operational improvements. Colleagues describe him as a technical leader who surfaces practical wins—like enabling static IP multicast auto-commissioning—that are easy to overlook but deliver outsized customer value.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
St. John's Senior Secondary School
P. S, Senior Secondary School
M.S. Computer Engineering, M.S. Computer Engineering at Louisiana State University
English, Tamil, Hindi, French, Spanish