Navraj Chohan
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNavraj Chohan is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 14 years of experience building scalable, distributed systems and leading engineering teams. As CEO of UpMortem he created Haly, an AI chatbot for Slack, and previously co-founded AppScale, an open-source PaaS for running App Engine applications on any infrastructure. His technical work spans backend systems, datastore design, and transaction management—contributions to AppScale’s datastore demonstrate deep expertise in key-value storage, composite indexing, and reliability engineering. Navraj has held senior leadership roles at Teladoc Health and InTouch Health and brings academic rigor from a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. Based in Santa Barbara, he combines product-focused engineering with community leadership—running the local Slack community—and unexpected social impact through his nonprofit feeding homeless children organic meals. This blend of entrepreneurial, technical, and civic commitments makes him a pragmatic builder who ships production-grade systems while keeping tangible community outcomes in view.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Enginnering, Ph.D., Computer Enginnering at UC Santa Barbara
English, Punjabi
Stackoverflow
16reputation
202reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (10)
unit-testing10
key-value-pair10
key-value-database10
distributed-systems10
key-value-store10
indexing10
python10
key-value10
nosql9
google-app-engine6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
AppScale/gts
Jun 2012 - May 2015
AppScale is an easy-to-manage serverless platform for building and running scalable web and mobile applications on any infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1033 commits, 51 PRs, 113 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Navraj primarily contributed to the datastore server, adding unit tests and support for various functionalities within the AppScale platform. Their work focused on enhancing the system's reliability, including handling transaction management and error conditions. The commits indicate a strong understanding of distributed datastore design and implementation, particularly around key-value storage and data indexing. The user also implemented features for creating composite indexes.
mobile-applicationserverless
nlake44/UserInfuser
Jul 2011 - Jul 2015
Gamification Platform
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years
djangogamificationgamification-platform
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