# Amruta Chitnis

> Principal Software Engineer at Salesforce

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/amrutachitnis

I am a Software Engineer with expertise in end-to-end systems, working both, with teams and as an individual contributor. I'm skilled at the full life cycle of software development, including prototyping, system design, product development, testing, and continued maintenance.

My colleagues describe me as “able to deliver on projects where she was assisting a lead, and then took over technical leadership because she knew more than the lead”, “has proven she learns new technologies quickly and properly and applies them to work appropriately”, “I appreciate her ability to balance projects with necessary interruptions and distractions”.

I'm excited to work with creative teams on projects that challenge me as a technologist to ship quality deliverables.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Salesforce
Jan 2017 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ CoreOS
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Tectonic is the secure, automated, and hybrid enterprise Kubernetes platform

Tectonic Console (lets the user manage their infrastructure from top to bottom)
๏ Implemented and owned the UI for seamlessly upgrading Kubernetes, Container Linux Update Operator, various Tectonic components such as etcd, to support self-driving infrastructure.
๏ Worked closely with the backend team on various auth-related changes including token revocation and worked on the server side/ui implementation and cert expiration.
๏ Built the multi cluster demo for CoreOS fest which was well received during CoreOS Fest 2017.
๏ Implemented UI for creating/editing/viewing of several Kubernetes resources as well as etcd and Prometheus

Tectonic Installer (graphical installer that installs a highly available Kubernetes cluster)
๏ Experimented with Nightwatch.js for E2E tests and wrote the first round of E2E tests which was later used by QE to develop E2E tests for Installer.
๏ Successfully acted as a rotating release manager for multiple bi-weekly/monthly Tectonic releases

### Lead Software Engineer (Front-end) @ Rackspace, the #1 managed cloud company
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
๏ Rackspace Intelligence (RI): RI is an interface that allows Support Rackers and Rackspace customers to configure the monitoring of their hosted servers and provides insightful visualizations for monitoring real-time performance data. It is built on the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS and Node.js) and uses flot.js / glimpse.js for visualizations.
๏ Responsible for building the Rackspace Intelligence Dashboard which provides a holistic view of a user’s infrastructure and for setting team direction.
๏ Championed writing extensive JavaScript unit– and integration tests using Jasmine.
๏ glimpse.js (github.com/racker/glimpse.js): One of three core developers of glimpse.js, an open source JavaScript
library built on top of D3.js to build reusable visualizations with a simple API. I coordinated the launch of graphs in
Rackspace Cloud Control Panel to show time-series graphs of monitoring metrics data using glimpse.js.
๏ Rackspace Control Panel (mycloud.rackspace.com): Rackspace Control Panel lets customers manage their Rackspace
Infrastructure. I developed and maintained monitoring features in Rackspace Cloud Control Panel.
๏ Mentored 2 engineering interns and was responsible for on-boarding 3 new team members.

### Senior Software Engineer (IGN Prime) @ IGN Entertainment
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco
๏ Prime: Prime is a video-gaming-related subscription service powered by IGN. Single-handedly integrated Vindicia (Billing SaaS provider) with Prime under a strict 8-week deadline. I re-wrote the entire subscription site using a new stack of technologies (PHP / MySQL & HTML / CSS / JavaScript) and integrated with a new set of authorization / authentication services. I managed front-end development for numerous promotions and Beta programs, including minor design work in Photoshop.

### Software Engineer (Digital Distribution) @ IGN Entertainment
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 | Costa Mesa
๏ CMS (direct2drive.com): Designed and implemented a Content Management System to enable the Operations team to update dynamic content across the website. (C# & HTML / CSS / JavaScript)
๏ Endeca integration: I integrated Endeca (an enterprise search application that allows to process, store, manage, search and analyze structured and unstructured information) to implement search, guided navigation, and type-ahead search on direct2drive.com. Faceted search and guided navigation provided greater access to the entire D2D catalog and increased conversion rates by 24.4%. (C#)
๏ ClickandBuy: Integrated ClickandBuy (an online payment service provider) to allow overseas customers to use ClickandBuy for their purchases and which resulted in a 3.9% increase in UK/EU sales. (C#)

### Web Developer / Database Admin @ NTCH, Inc. dba CLEAR TALK
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008
๏ I performed the full spectrum of web-related tasks, including rapid prototyping, design and layout, server-side programming, and testing for company website and internal admin site. (Perl, MySQL & HTML / CSS / JavaScript).
๏ I was responsible for designing, developing and maintaining the administration management site for effective user management, Dealer Point of Sale Interface which facilitated online sales, transaction management system for Jacksonville market, historical/financial reporting tool for generation of performance and product-related parameters. (Perl & HTML / CSS / JavaScript).
๏ Worked on integration of QuickBooks POS with the website via the QuickBooks Web Connector (QBWC) application. (Perl).

### Software Intern @ ProSites Inc.
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
ProSites creates custom websites or allows customers (medical and dental professionals) to select from their pre-designed styles.
๏ Worked on several front-end and back-end bugs for the .NET based website publishing engine. (C# & HTML / CSS / JavaScript). Integrated the VeriSign API for credit card authorization (C#)
๏ Assisted in the development of logical and physical specifications for the Accounting System (C#)
๏ Created a prototype which created PDF documents on the fly from web-forms using Acrobat SDK (C#)


## Education
### Bachelors in Computer Science
University of Mumbai

### M.S. in Computer Science
University of Southern California


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/amrutachitnis

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Last updated: 2026-04-12