Krishnan Chandra
Principal Software Engineer at SixAI
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKrishnan Chandra is a Principal Software Engineer and serial founder with 12 years building large-scale data infrastructure and NLP-driven products, currently shaping technical strategy at Ramp and advising SixAI. He co-founded ResearchRabbit and SixAI, architecting AI-powered discovery and a finance-focused AI analyst that leverage LLMs, graph tech, and scalable Python backends to serve institutional clients including a UK private investor and the DOJ. His background spans high-throughput pipelines at Reddit and Optimizely, billing and microservices at Confluent, and hands-on systems work in Go, Scala, Python, and Kubernetes. An active open-source contributor to the Pants build system, he improves Python tooling and build integrations—showing a focus on developer ergonomics as well as production reliability. Comfortable moving between product vision and low-level engineering, he combines founder-level product intuition with deep systems expertise and a taste for exploring new domains. Outside work he recharges hiking, travel, music, and soccer, often bringing practical curiosity into technical problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignPhillips Academy
Hindi, Spanish, Tamil, English
Github Skills (5)
build-system10
python10
ruff10
pytest9
build-tools9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pantsbuild/pants
May 2023 - Mar 2025
The Pants Build System
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:120 reviews, 41 PRs, 201 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Krishnan's commits primarily address issues within the Pants build system, focusing on Python code. They fixed a venv path issue when running Pyright, ensuring correct operation of the type checker. The user also enabled code formatting using Ruff, integrating it into the build process, and updated the default Pyright version. Further contributions included validating file content types and allowing Ruff to format BUILD files, indicating a strong understanding of the build system's inner workings and Python code quality.
pythonprotobufaws-lambdapantsshell
researchrabbit/amplitude-python-sdk
Apr 2021 - Dec 2023
Client for the Amplitude HTTP V2 API
Contributions:12 reviews, 27 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 years 7 months
apiamplitude
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