Summary
Kishan Chaitanya is an engineering manager specializing in quality assurance with over a decade of experience designing automation strategies and reliability practices for microservices-driven systems. Currently leading QA at Applied Intuition, he mentors distributed teams to deliver high-performance software for autonomous vehicle development while previously driving dramatic improvements in automation coverage, test speed, and incident reduction at fintech and product companies. He combines hands-on skills in automation frameworks, front-end tech (HTML/CSS/JavaScript), and platform migrations with a data-driven approach—launching code coverage analytics and QE monitoring dashboards that raised unit test coverage and build efficiency substantially. Notable behind-the-scenes wins include shrinking test data generation from 25 to 3 minutes, running thousands of API and UI tests in tight windows, and enabling 100% automation of demand environments. With masters-level software engineering education and an EM leadership boot camp from UC Berkeley, he blends technical depth with systems-level process transformation.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
San José State University
Anna University, Chennai
Engineering Manager Boot Camp, Engineering Manager Boot Camp at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
English, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi