Saikat Chakrabortty
Senior Data Platform Engineer
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolSaikat Chakrabortty is a Senior Data Platform Engineer with a decade of experience designing and operating production systems across AWS, Azure, and GCP, bringing a developer-first perspective to SRE and platform challenges. He progressed from backend development to platform engineering, currently building Backbase’s centralized release platform after four years designing GitOps pipelines and managing multi-cloud Kubernetes and observability stacks. His pragmatic engineering has delivered measurable impact—cutting deployment downtime by 95%, slashing cloud monitoring costs by $300K/month with an in‑house Grafana/Loki/Tempo stack, and accelerating ML training pipelines from 7 hours to under 1. He also maintains pm2-metrics, a widely used Prometheus exporter with 160+ stars and ~50K weekly NPM downloads, reflecting active open-source stewardship. Based in Amsterdam, Saikat blends operational rigor with developer ergonomics to ship resilient, cost-effective platforms at scale.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at Supreme Knowledge Foundation
Hindi, Bengali, English
Stackoverflow
2,590reputation
529kreached
40answers
12questions
mongodb
top-5%
mongoose
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
exporter10
marker10
cryptocurrency10
automation10
code-runner10
influxdb10
scheduler10
api10
data-science10
apache10
prometheus10
google-maps-api10
visualization10
python10
coredns10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
VolantMQ/helm
Apr 2020 - May 2020
The VolantMQ Helm chart
Contributions:35 commits, 17 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 month
charthelmhelm-charthelm-chartskubernetes
saikatharryc/loopback-bunyan-looger
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:31 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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