Chirag Salian
Full Stack Engineer at Expensify
United States
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Top SchoolChirag Salian is a Full Stack Engineer with a decade of experience building reliable web and backend systems, currently driving engineering efforts at Expensify since 2017. He combines database and backend expertise with front-end experience from earlier roles, enabling end-to-end ownership of features and platform reliability. Notably, he has contributed to Expensify's Bedrock distributed database—adding job requeueing, improving job management, and writing tests—demonstrating comfort with distributed systems and low-level C++/database plumbing. Holding a Master's in Computer Science from RIT, he blends solid academic training with practical production experience and a knack for refactoring and reducing system complexity.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at PES UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of TechnologyNational Junior College
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Github Skills (8)
c-language10
sqlite10
cprogramming-language10
database-design10
testing9
sql9
database-administration9
git5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Expensify/Bedrock
May 2019 - Dec 2022
Rock solid distributed database specializing in active/active automatic failover and WAN replication
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:39 releases, 31 reviews, 29 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Chirag contributed significantly to the `bedrock` database project, implementing features related to job management and database interactions. They added support for requeueing jobs and updating job names, which involved modifying the `Jobs.cpp` plugin. Additionally, the user wrote tests for the requeue job functionality and refactored code to move the `isValidSQLiteDateModifier` function to the `libstuff` library. Further contributions include merging code and removing redundant retries.
rockdistributed-databasedatabasefailoverreplication
chiragsalian/javascriptExercises
Jul 2016 - Dec 2022
Basic javascript exercises for beginners
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 branches, 205 comments in 6 years 6 months
javascript-exercisesjavascriptfor-beginnersjs
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