Chandra Kolli

Senior Application Engineer

Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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Summary

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Samish Kolli is a seasoned software engineering manager with 13 years of experience building polished user-facing experiences across mobile and desktop platforms, currently leading engineering at Meta. He combines hands-on engineering instincts with team leadership, having progressed from individual contributor roles at LinkedIn, Facebook, and Meta to managerial responsibilities that focus on quality, performance, and usability. Samish has a pragmatic, user-feedback-driven approach to product refinement and a strong foundation in systems and code quality—evidenced by contributions to the widely used uncrustify code beautifier addressing tricky tokenization and formatting edge cases for C++ and Objective-C. Educated at IIIT Hyderabad and Stony Brook, he blends rigorous academic training with enterprise-scale delivery and a knack for improving developer tooling behind the scenes.
code13 years of coding experience
job7 years of employment as a software developer
bookBachelor's degree Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Bachelor's degree Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at Amrita Sai Institute Of Science & Technology
bookMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Northwestern University
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Github Skills (10)

objective-c10
code-standards10
c-language10
coding-style10
cprogramming-language10
beautifier10
data-format10
text-format10
file-format10
code-formatting10

Programming languages (5)

TypeScriptC++CSwiftClojure

Github contributions (5)

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uncrustify/uncrustify

Nov 2019 - Dec 2020

Code beautifier
Role in this project:
userSoftware Engineer (Code Beautifier)
Contributions:35 commits, 40 PRs, 54 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Chandra primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the `uncrustify/uncrustify` repository, a code beautifier project. Their work involved addressing issues related to tokenization, specifically concerning Objective-C and C++ syntax, such as handling `FUNC_CALL`, nested template syntax, and spacing within angle brackets. The user also made improvements to Objective-C property sorting and block indentation, ensuring correct code formatting.
beautifierbeautifycode-styleformatter
samishchandra/uncrustify

Nov 2019 - May 2026

Code beautifier
Contributions:526 pushes, 95 branches, 19 tags in 6 years 7 months
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