Summary
Chandra Sanapala is a Staff Software Engineer based in Hyderabad with over 6 years of focused experience building storage software, file systems, and distributed systems using C++. His career spans roles at Sundeck, EPAM, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise after MapR’s acquisition, reflecting deep domain expertise across enterprise storage products and large-scale system integrations. He has roots in low-level systems work dating back to Veritas/ Symantec and smaller file-system-focused startups, giving him a rare blend of protocol-level understanding and production engineering experience. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and technical leader, he consistently ships robust storage features for demanding, distributed environments. Trained at IIT Kanpur (M.Tech) and Andhra University, he pairs academic rigor with practical delivery, often surfacing subtle reliability and performance trade-offs early in design.
6 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B Tech, Computer Science, B Tech, Computer Science at Andhra University
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
+2, +2 at Vikas
English, Telugu