Summary
Sharan Chandran is a software engineer with 11 years of experience who blends startup grit and research rigor, having left a PhD in Materials Science to found a product-driven company and later move into high-scale engineering roles. He builds full-stack web applications with Laravel, Tailwind CSS, Vue.js, and React, and has designed APIs that handled over a million image uploads per day. After leading development at his own startup and multiple senior engineering roles, he’s now at Apple, bringing production-grade systems thinking from both entrepreneurial and enterprise contexts. Comfortable across front-end and back-end domains, he thrives on building products from the ground up and learning new technologies rapidly. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs a strong academic background in materials science with hands-on experience shipping resilient, scalable services.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Discontinued), Materials Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Discontinued), Materials Engineering at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Master's degree, Materials Science, Master's degree, Materials Science at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli