Chandra Shetty, Developer in Chicago, IL, United States
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Chandra Shetty

Verified Expert  in Engineering

Software Developer

Location
Chicago, IL, United States
Toptal Member Since
February 10, 2016

Chandra has over 15 years of experience as a Software Architect and leader in product development in Silicon Valley, Chicago, and India. He has helped design and build software products for Cisco Systems as well as several startups, and is now trying to grow his own startup in the mobile space. Chandra's expertise is in cloud computing, security, and networking applications.

Portfolio

Tinkerix Technologies Pvt Ltd India
Amazon Web Services (AWS), PostgreSQL, Dropwizard, Android, Java
Sookasa Inc
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Redis, PostgreSQL, Heroku, Python
Cisco Systems Inc
High-Availability Linux, MySQL, SNMP, JMS, Linux, Java

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Bash, Python, Java, Vi, Emacs, OS X, Linux

The most amazing...

...thing I've designed and built is the Sookasa cloud access security service for Dropbox. It helps businesses use cloud services in a safe manner.

Work Experience

Co-Founder

2014 - PRESENT
Tinkerix Technologies Pvt Ltd India
  • Conceptualized the product and recommended prepaid mobile plans for consumers based on usage.
  • Created the business plan, product road-map, and raised funds.
  • Built and deployed Android app on Google Play.
  • Built and maintained back-end server API on AWS for transactions.
  • Managed an outsourced development team for mobile app development and design.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), PostgreSQL, Dropwizard, Android, Java

Software Engineer Founding Team

2012 - 2014
Sookasa Inc
  • Designed the security architecture of accessing files on cloud services, including key generation, key storage, and file encryption.
  • Created a REST API for mobile and desktop clients.
  • Designed and implemented the server back-end, API, background jobs, and poll infrastructure.
  • Was responsible for all server DevOps including Heroku and AWS.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Redis, PostgreSQL, Heroku, Python

Senior Software Engineer

2004 - 2011
Cisco Systems Inc
  • Was the founding engineer for Cisco's Physical Access Team. Built industrial IOT products for physical security. Responsible for all server architecture and software.
  • Member of messaging infrastructure team responsible of high performance processing of XML messages in Cisco routers (Application Oriented Networking ).
  • Member of network management team which implemented all management software for Storage Area Network switches (Cisco MDS 9000).
Technologies: High-Availability Linux, MySQL, SNMP, JMS, Linux, Java

Software Engineer

2001 - 2004
Andiamo Systems
  • Built network management products in Java for the Andiamo Storage Area Network (SAN) switches.
Technologies: SNMP, Linux, Java

TalkMore Mobile App

TalkMore is an Android mobile app for India. It recommends the cheapest prepaid mobile plans based on usage. The TalkMore engine aggregates mobile plans for all telecom providers in India.

Sookasa

Sookasa Cloud Access Security Broker - Sookasa is a cloud access security solution. It enforces security policies across all cloud services used by a team.

Languages

SQL, Java, Bash, JavaScript, Python

Platforms

Android, Salesforce, OS X, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Heroku

Other

GNU, Vi, SNMP, High-Availability Linux

Frameworks

Dropwizard, Django

Libraries/APIs

JMS

Tools

Emacs

Paradigms

Concurrent Programming

Storage

MySQL, Redis, PostgreSQL

1996 - 1999

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Indiana University - Bloomington, Indiana

1992 - 1996

Bachelor's of Technology Degree in Computer Science and Engineering

IIT Bombay - Bombay, India

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