# Adithya Chandra > Software Engineer at Confluent Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/adithyachandra I want to build products used by millions of people across the world and I enjoy working on distributed systems. ## Work Experience ### Principal Engineer @ Confluent Jan 2020 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States Kafka scalability and performance ### Senior Software Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto Leading cluster management initiatives in open distro for Elasticsearch. https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/performance-analyzer https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/performance-analyzer-rca ### Senior Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Seattle Worked on the storage engine that powers Amazon Aurora. Worked on * Global databases. * Availability and load balancing improvements. * Cost improvements. * Performance improvements with better partition placement. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 I helped start, build and operate Amazon Elasticsearch Service. ### MTS @ Adobe Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 I helped add features to Adobe Dreamweaver which continues to be used by people across the world to build beautiful websites. ## Education ### Advanced Study Program in Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology ### Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science National Institute of Technology Karnataka ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adithya-chandra-874bb920 --- Source: https://flows.cv/adithyachandra JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/adithyachandra/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12