About

Chaitanya Nalla is a seasoned Senior Software Development Engineer with over 10 years of experience in the tech industry. He is currently working at Uber in a senior position, where he is responsible for developing and implementing innovative solutions for the company's software development needs. Prior to joining Uber, Chaitanya worked at Amazon in various roles, including Senior Software Development Engineer and Software Development Engineer 2. During his time at Amazon, he was involved in several key initiatives, such as designing and implementing pricing promotion integration for private brands and building the backend integration with external carriers for Amazon Cable Store. Chaitanya is a highly skilled software engineer with expertise in AWS, ML, search, integration, and backend development. He has architected HardlinesMLFramework from scratch using AWS Services to accelerate the productization of machine learning algorithms used in various applications and services. He has also led teams for key initiatives such as LatestArrivals and TabularSpecview on search, and redesigned efforts to move to Native AWS to reduce cost and scale the systems. Chaitanya is a BarRaiserInTraining program nominee and has conducted around 145 interviews. He is a key member of org design review panel and has reviewed 40+ project designs, made 1500+ commits, reviewed 500+ CRs, certified code review bar raiser, and mentored 12+ SDEs to help them grow in their careers. Chaitanya holds a Bachelor's degree in Information Systems from BITS Pilani and completed his schooling at Sasi Junior College. He has participated in 10+ hackathons, won 3 hackathons, and partnered with teams to take several of these ideas from inception to delivery for private brands and comparisons in Consumer Electronics tech. Overall, Chaitanya is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions to complex problems.