Chandra Sanivarapu is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale backend and platform systems, currently leading the backend for AI-powered news products at SmartNews in Tokyo. He architects microservices that integrate LLMs to generate explainable news summaries and has driven real-time event platforms serving millions during major sports and global events. Previously he led a 2000+ node Hadoop datacenter migration and productionized Spark and Prometheus infrastructure at Yahoo! JAPAN, demonstrating deep expertise in distributed systems and operational reliability. Comfortable across Java/Kotlin, Quarkus, Spring Boot and FastAPI, he blends platform engineering with pragmatic ML/AI integration to ship production features with human-in-the-loop workflows. Colleagues rely on him to reduce operational burden through clean service boundaries and zero-downtime migrations, while his early work spans Android, full-stack and campus-scale systems. He brings a rare mix of hands-on systems optimization and product-minded technical leadership that accelerates both developer velocity and user-facing reliability.
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Chandra Sanivarapu - Senior Software Engineer at SmartNews