Nikhil Chinthapallee
Senior Software Engineer (SDE-4) at GoDaddy
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolNikhil Chinthapallee is a Senior Software Engineer (SDE-4) with 11 years of experience building Java-based web services and cloud-native applications, currently driving engineering at GoDaddy from the Greater Seattle Area. He combines strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and design patterns with hands-on AWS expertise and an Oracle Certified Java Programmer credential. Past roles at Amazon and Pegasystems gave him deep experience in large-scale backend systems, distributed services, and enterprise BPM platforms. He’s contributed to open-source education tooling by refactoring core form and controller logic in the Expertiza project, demonstrating a focus on cleaner architecture and separation of concerns. Comfortable across JVM stacks and Rails, he blends pragmatic engineering with a track record of shipping maintainable code in both startups and Fortune-scale environments. Collected academic rigor from an MS in Computer Science (3.78 GPA) underpins his methodical approach to solving complex system design problems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, 3.78, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, 3.78 at North Carolina State UniversityB.E, Computer Science, B.E, Computer Science at Osmania University
Hindi, Telugu, English
Github Skills (11)
activerecord10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
mvc-architecture9
peer8
databases8
database8
peer-to-peer8
rspec7
rubocop5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
expertiza/expertiza
Nov 2014 - Nov 2015
Expertiza is a web application through which students can submit and peer-review learning objects (articles, code, web sites, etc). The Expertiza project is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Nikhil primarily focused on refactoring the `AssignmentForm` class and related controllers within the Expertiza web application. Their contributions included moving save logic and setup defaults to the form object, enhancing the separation of concerns. The user also refactored code used to update assignment questionnaires and fixed various routing and assignment-related issues. These changes indicate a focus on improving the application's architecture and data management within the Rails framework.
nationalpeer-reviewexpertiza-wikidjangoexpertiza
SoftwareEngineeringToolDemos/FSE-2012-ReImInfer
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 25 pushes, 2 comments in 2 months
javainferpurityvariables
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