Koushik Chitta
Engineering Manager at Apple
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKoushik Chitta is an engineering leader with 8 years of experience building and operating highly distributed, five-nines availability systems for hyperscale cloud and search platforms. He has led teams at Microsoft to design foundational Azure compute primitives—NoSQL stores, distributed pub/sub and streaming platforms—that power core services across Azure, Storage, Bing and Exchange, and now works as an Engineering Manager at Apple. Known for turning infrastructure challenges into scalable platform building blocks, he focuses on low-latency, high-availability services that run across global datacenters. His background spans hands-on SDE work in Bing and Azure through principal-level management, giving him deep technical credibility alongside delivery and reliability ownership. Based in Redmond, he pairs an IIIT Hyderabad master’s in CS with a track record of shipping platform services that enable other teams to move faster. A less obvious strength is his pattern of scaling niche backend systems (maps ingestion, Autopilot OneFleet) into broadly reusable infrastructure components.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University HyderabadMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at IIIT Hyderabad
English
Github Skills (27)
kafka-producer10
kafka10
librdkafka10
producer10
apache-kafka10
c-library10
high-performance10
apache9
azure-cosmos-db9
confluent9
nuget9
kafka-consumer9
confluent-cloud9
cpp9
api8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/kafka
Apr 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:5 reviews, 16 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 8 months
kafkajavaapache-kafkaapache
confluentinc/librdkafka
Feb 2018 - Sep 2021
The Apache Kafka C/C++ library
Contributions:32 comments, 16 issues in 3 years 7 months
apache-kafkacppkafka-consumerc-libraryc-plus-plus
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