Vinay Chella
Engineering Leader at DoorDash
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolVinay Chella is an engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling data platforms for high-growth, mission-critical products across Netflix, Microsoft, Expedia, and DoorDash. He led the creation and adoption of Netflix’s Data Gateway and higher-level data abstractions—growing a team from 0 to 14 and driving ~80% adoption—while orchestrating large cross-functional efforts like the Cassandra Thrift deprecation. A long-time Apache Cassandra committer who has contributed to Netflix/Priam and production-grade Cassandra tooling, Vinay blends deep distributed-systems expertise with pragmatic DevOps and cost-optimization wins that unlocked multi-region, active-active deployments. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he pairs a designer’s eye and prototyping instincts with a track record of shipping resilient, high-performance storage and caching systems used at massive scale. Notably, he has experience moving entire platform “engines midflight”—coordinating hundreds of engineers to change core data access without disruption.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Osmania University
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Github Skills (12)
javas10
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devops10
cassandra10
java10
cicd10
rest-api9
json8
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gradlew7
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/Priam
Aug 2015 - Feb 2019
Co-Process for backup/recovery, Token Management, and Centralized Configuration management for Cassandra.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 releases, 49 commits, 43 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Vinay contributed to Priam, a co-process for Cassandra, by implementing features and making enhancements related to configuring Cassandra startup parameters and environment variables. They added functionality to retrieve and set extra environment parameters, providing flexibility in Cassandra deployment. Further contributions included code modifications, bug fixes, and refactoring efforts. Additionally, the user worked on integrating Travis CI for building and releasing the project.
cassandraconfiguration-managementtokentoken-managementrestore
vinaykumarchella/Priam
Aug 2015 - Feb 2019
Co-Process for backup/recovery, Token Management, and Centralized Configuration management for Cassandra.
Contributions:2 PRs, 53 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 6 months
cassandraconfiguration-managementtokentoken-managementrecovery
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