Saikumar Chintada
Software Engineer at Sundial
India
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSaikumar Chintada is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience focused on distributed systems, data infrastructure, and backend services, currently driving engineering work at Sundial. He has led data teams at Gojek and JioSaavn, shipping scalable microservices and database-backed pipelines that support high-throughput production workloads. An active open-source contributor, he improved plugin management and Airflow integration in the popular raystack/optimus workflow orchestrator, bridging DevOps and backend concerns. Trained at NIT Calicut, he combines hands-on coding with system design expertise and a knack for simplifying complex plugin and deployment flows—often surfacing subtle automation gains that reduce operational friction.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Compter Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree Compter Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology Calicut
English, Telugu, Hindi
Github Skills (19)
data-pipelines10
dataops10
workflow-engine10
workflow-automation10
go10
airflow10
golang10
argo-workflows10
data-pipeline10
elt9
yaml9
automation9
etl9
automations9
docker8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
raystack/optimus
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Optimus is an easy-to-use, reliable, and performant workflow orchestrator for data transformation, data modeling, pipelines, and data quality management.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:34 reviews, 30 commits, 31 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Saikumar primarily focused on enhancing the plugin management capabilities within the `raystack/optimus` repository, a workflow orchestrator. Their contributions included adding plugin manager functionality, supporting YAML plugin implementations, and simplifying plugin installation on the client-side. They also worked on integrating plugins into the server configuration and improving the overall plugin ecosystem, which is evident in code changes related to the init-container setup. Additionally, the user modified the Airflow scheduler integration with the aim of integrating the job run input into the pods' environment.
business-intelligencedata-warehousedata-integrityworkflow-orchestratorperformant
smarchint/SIL-Compiler
Mar 2015 - Dec 2019
Contributions:33 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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