Lalit Chandnani
CTO VP Of Technology at Urban Ladder
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolLalit Chandnani is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 13 years of hands-on engineering and 15+ years of strategic technology experience driving scalable, cost-efficient systems from Bengaluru. At Urban Ladder he progressed from technical lead to CTO, spearheading microservices, platform reorganization and cloud modernisation that cut costs up to 40%, improved uptime to 99.95%, and reduced production issues substantially. He combines startup grit—co-founding UneeCart and shipping a lean marketplace in three months—with enterprise-grade discipline in testing, observability and team structures that shortened initiative turnaround by 20%. A pragmatic back-end engineer by training, he has contributed to open-source Django payment integrations, improving eWay gateway reliability and recurring payments. With an IIT Guwahati MS and a track record of scaling teams and systems across product, revenue and operations, he blends technical depth with measurable business impact.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki VishwavidyalayaMaster's Degree Computer Science & Engg., Master's Degree Computer Science & Engg. at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
English, Hindi
Github Skills (5)
apim10
payment-gateway10
api10
python10
django10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
agiliq/merchant
Jan 2013 - Apr 2013
A Django app to accept payments from various payment processors via Pluggable backends.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Lalit primarily focused on developing and modifying features within the eWay payment gateway integration for the Django-based merchant application. Their contributions included implementing direct payment functionality, updating the eWay API client, and fixing recurring payment implementations. The user also made debugging and refactoring efforts, removing debug code and adding comments to improve code readability and maintainability.
paymentspythonprocessorsdjangoaccept-payments
urbanladder/ozonetel
Nov 2016 - Nov 2017
Ruby client for Ozonetel APIs
Contributions:3 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
api-clientapiruby-clientruby
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