# Aarthy K Chandrasekhar > Staff Software Engineer at Netlify Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/aarthykchandrasekhar ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Netlify Jan 2025 – Present - Worked with Leadership, Product, and was a key contributor for Netlify's AI Gateway feature - https://docs.netlify.com/build/ai-gateway/overview/. AI Gateway ranked #3 on product hunt the day it launched https://www.producthunt.com/products/netlify/launches/netlify-ai-gateway ### Senior Software Engineer @ Netlify Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 As a Senior Engineer on the Application Delivery Network team, I: - Worked cross-functionally with multiple teams such as Design, Product, Frontend - Worked on writing RFCs, reviewing them with the team and implementing the solutions (in Golang or Ruby on Rails, sometimes Terraform) - Tech lead or played a key role in designing the backend for: - Site protection: https://docs.netlify.com/security/secure-access-to-sites/site-protection/#protect-your-site-with-netlify-team-login - Firewall and Traffic rules: https://docs.netlify.com/security/secure-access-to-sites/traffic-rules/#app - Ratelimiting rules: https://docs.netlify.com/security/secure-access-to-sites/rate-limiting/#app - Worked on improving the reliability of our edge network by implementing DDOS mitigations and building tools that allow on-call engineers respond to incidents ### Senior Software Engineer @ Mapbox Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Senior Software Engineer - Release Engineering As a Senior Engineer on the Release Engineering team, I work on building tools to improve developer and CI/CD experiences across Mapbox. Examples include: * Working on building tools written entirely in Golang that support release workflows such as deploying services using AWS cloudformation, Mobile SDK releases, NPM releases etc. * Working on building tools that enable our developers to run tests and benchmark performance before releases * Working on building tools that manage AWS permissions across Mapbox that support specific developer needs ### Senior Software Engineer @ Mapbox Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States Senior Software Engineer - Core Search As a Senior Engineer on the Search team I worked on Carmen (https://github.com/mapbox/carmen), our in-house search engine. I worked on multiple projects that drastically improved the Search infrastructure and results. Examples include: * Refactoring Carmen and porting over computationally expensive spatial and ranking algorithms from Javascript to Rust (https://github.com/mapbox/carmen-core) * Led the work to improve developer experience and reduce costs associated with running the Search Infrastructure * Worked as a Senior Engineer to build out new Search APIs powered by multiple engines written entirely in Rust, containerized and running on AWS * Worked on multiple improvements to our in-house Search Engine to improve search ranking and relevance * Led and worked on multiple improvements to the search infrastructure, making it possible for the search service to be able to scale to handle 10M req/min ### Software Engineer @ Mapbox Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States The Search team builds Mapbox's location search and manages the data that powers it. We expand coverage, find data, run benchmarks, squish bugs, and launch features. Our team has built everything from sophisticated server infrastructure and mobile apps to tiny, useful open-source libraries. Our team has to balance building for the future, concrete customer needs and the messiness of real world data. It's a fascinating set of problems. ### Software Engineer @ Mapbox Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | India Software Engineer - Platform ### Ingersoll @ Sanshray Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 ### Product Development @ Dion Global Solutions Limited Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Worked on the product Differentia as a web developer and worked on an update tool for the same product. ### Mentor @ Make A Difference Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 ## Education ### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science Vellore Institute of Technology ### High School Bombay Scottish School (Powai) ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarthykc - Website: https://github.com/aarthykc --- Source: https://flows.cv/aarthykchandrasekhar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/aarthykchandrasekhar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05