Sumit Chachra
CTO & Co-Founder at candidate.fyi
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSumit Chachra is a seasoned technology leader and founder with nearly two decades of experience building scalable web and cloud-native systems, currently serving as CTO and Co‑Founder of CapeZero where he leads architecture and product delivery for clean energy finance. He co-founded and grew Tivix from an engineering consultancy into a global digital practice, later integrating into Kellton as global CTO where he led an 800+ person practice across Americas, Europe, and APAC. Hands-on across backend and infrastructure, his early work spans high-throughput Java systems, Python/Django platforms, and open-source contributions such as meaningful fixes and usability improvements to the django-cron project. An active angel/LP investor and advisor, he backs climate and energy-focused startups and mentors founders on product and go-to-market strategy. He combines academic research in distributed AI from his MS with practical startup execution, and often blends technical depth with commercial judgment when moving products to market. Based in San Francisco, he brings a rare mix of engineering craft, operating scale, and climate-focused mission.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaIndian Institute of Technology Roorkee
English, Hindi, French
Github Skills (6)
python10
django10
sa9
documentation9
software-design9
git7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Tivix/django-cron
Feb 2011 - Nov 2021
Write cron business logic as a Python class and let this app do the rest! It enables Django projects to schedule cron tasks, tracks their success / failures, manages contention (via a cache) etc. Basically takes care of all the boring work for you :-)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 10 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sumit primarily contributed to the Django-cron project by modifying the codebase and documentation. Their work involved updating the README file with installation and usage instructions, as well as fixing migrations and updating the Django and South dependencies. Furthermore, the user implemented a management command that enabled running specific crons. Several version updates were made to the library, along with optimizations and bug fixes.
pythondjangocron-taskscronschedule
Tivix/django-common
Mar 2011 - Aug 2018
Common things every Django project needs :-) It provides lot of helper functions, commonly used middlewares, context processors, custom email/auth backends, session helpers etc.
Contributions:34 commits, 2 pushes, 3 comments in 7 years 5 months
pythonprocessorsdjangocommonlylot
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