Summary
Chethan Thipperudrappa is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing secure, low-latency backend systems and AI-driven cloud platforms for companies including AWS, Tableau, and LinkedIn. He specializes in distributed systems, Kafka autoscaling, Kubernetes, serverless AWS services, and scalable data stores such as DynamoDB and Redshift, and has a track record of cutting incidents by 90% while driving cost optimizations. At Tableau he led AI-driven insights and cross-channel notification platforms that increased adoption and collaboration, and at LinkedIn he’s driving Kafka cost-efficiency and ownership attribution for company-wide initiatives. Comfortable in both hands-on engineering and technical leadership, he mentors teams, codifies operational best practices, and runs brown-bag sessions to onboard engineers. His background in hardware and research (FPGA networking and handwriting analysis) gives him a pragmatic systems perspective that informs robust, measurable designs. Based in the Bay Area, he’s eager to connect on cloud architecture, backend engineering, and scaling mission-critical platforms.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at North Carolina State University
12th, 12th at Expert PU Science college, Mangalore
High School, High School at National Convent School, Davanagere
Bachelor’s Degree Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electronics and Communications Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Kannada, English, Hindi