Gautham Chandra
Technical Lead at Bilt Rewards
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGautham Chandra is a Technical Lead based in New York with over a decade of experience designing and shipping high-scale distributed systems and full-stack applications. He has led engineering teams across fintech, real estate, and media—driving architecture, performance tuning, and cross-stack delivery from Kotlin and Java backends to TypeScript/React frontends. Known for mentoring engineers and building operational excellence, he has run hiring, onboarding, and on-call practices while rolling out large features to production. He also contributes to open-source projects like Habitica, improving front-end UX and accessibility by addressing JavaScript-disabled states and internationalization. Comfortable moving between infrastructure, search, and product code, he combines hands-on implementation with strategic technical leadership. His background in building automated stress tools and re-architecting legacy systems hints at a pragmatic focus on reliability and measurable performance gains.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Colonia High SchoolBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology
English, Kannada
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Github Skills (19)
css10
front-end-development10
ssl9
amazon-web-services9
nsurlsession9
javascript8
html7
vue-jsx6
ios-simulator6
error-handling6
keychain6
vue6
iphone6
pki6
typescript6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
HabitRPG/habitica
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
A habit tracker app which treats your goals like a Role Playing Game.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 25 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Gautham primarily contributed to the front-end of the Habitica application. Their work focused on modifying and updating the CSS, with changes to the sprites to update the user interface. Additionally, the user improved user experience by addressing a Javascript-disabled state, adding a helpful message and including a translatable string.
trackerexpressvuereactjsrole
gauthamchandra/fireflybot
Jun 2015 - Dec 2021
a Slack bot that specializes in injecting Firefly references into your life
Contributions:1 PR, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
pythonasynciobotslack-botslack
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