Vamsi Chitters
Head Of Engineering at Luminai
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolVamsi Chitters is a Head of Engineering based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 13 years of experience building and scaling production systems and distributed teams across startups and tech giants. He blends deep technical chops—MS in Computer Science (AI/ML track) and hands-on work on Google’s Knowledge Graph infrastructure—with product-minded leadership demonstrated as a Brex senior engineering manager and as a founder whose payments startup Elph was acquired by Brex. At Luminai he now leads applied AI initiatives and deployment engineering to automate mission-critical workflows, drawing on experience shipping high-throughput blockchain infrastructure and real-time indexing systems. Known for mentoring distributed ICs and aligning platform strategy with product outcomes, he pairs people-first management with a track record of taking 0-to-1 products into scale. An investor-backed operator comfortable with both research-grade ML and production reliability, he thrives at the intersection of engineering, product and ops.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyEntrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship at Y CombinatorHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Monta Vista High SchoolMaster of Science Computer Science (AI/ML Track), Master of Science Computer Science (AI/ML Track) at Stanford University
Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, French
Github Skills (22)
spark9
microservices8
data-analysis8
hadoop8
infrastructure8
oembed8
presto7
alluxio7
tensorflow7
dx7
protobuf6
backstage6
machine-learning6
elixir6
grpc5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vamsikc/cs162-proj1
Sep 2012 - Sep 2012
Contributions:4 commits in 1 day
elphnetwork/block-explorer
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
Block Explorer for the Elph Plasma Chain
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
azerothcoreblockchainchainblock-explorerplasma
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