Saunak Chakrabarti
Senior Director at Spotify
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaunak Chakrabarti is a Senior Director and technology leader based in New York with nearly two decades of experience building low-latency trading systems and large-scale consumer infrastructure. He has led core infrastructure and operations at Spotify—owning service runtime, observability, storage and communication fabric—and now heads engineering for the Talk vertical, blending product-facing leadership with deep platform expertise. Saunak’s career spans high-frequency trading and hedge-fund tech to consumer services, giving him rare fluency in both microsecond-sensitive order/execution systems and systems that scale to hundreds of millions of users. His technical strengths include distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, microservice architecture and large-scale data processing, applied across finance and media domains. Known for building high-performance teams, he pairs rigorous engineering standards with pragmatic delivery, often optimizing for both latency and massive scale. An early background in computer science and philosophy informs his analytical approach to complex systems and trade-offs.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, Philosophy, B.S., Computer Science, Philosophy at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (6)
helios10
docker8
java8
docker-container8
container7
orchestration5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
spotify/helios
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Docker container orchestration platform
Contributions:2 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 day
containersorchestrationcontainer-orchestrationdockerdocker-container
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