# Chai Gangavarapu

> Software Engineer

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chaigangavarapu

Software Engineer, with a specialization in backend and data driven development.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Valon
Jan 2026 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Kiosk
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States
• Built TypeScript backends with GraphQL APIs for blockchain applications including an NFT Farcaster client and today.fun's token distribution platform, integrating with EVM smart contracts and optimizing query performance
• Engineered real-time blockchain indexing pipelines using Kafka and Debezium CDC, processing on-chain events with sub-second latency
• Architected and built a real-time AI agent system with multi-provider inference handlers (OpenAI, Anthropic, LiteLLM), featuring streaming Server-Sent Events, tool orchestration, and automatic context compression for mobile-optimized content feeds
• Implemented end-to-end observability with OpenTelemetry tracing, Prometheus metrics, and Grafana dashboards; built custom LiteLLM callbacks for AI inference monitoring across multiple providers
• Built a FastAPI backend with async PostgreSQL (SQLModel/SQLAlchemy), Redis-backed conversation persistence, and Temporal for background refresh jobs and streams

### Software Engineer @ Polygon.io
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York City Metropolitan Area
• Developed a Snapshot API (in Go) taking in a parameter of any ticker (Crypto, Indices, Stocks), and retrieving data from Redis, which was powered by real time Kafka streams.
• Onboarded the entire Indices Market Type, including any indices market and reference data. Included updating and adding new api’s to support this market, as well as ingesting new data sources (in Rust) serving Index Data.
• Helped Implement and optimize, many parts of our crypto ingestion and backfill pipelines, greatly aiding developer experience.
• Worked with the Stripe API, to create prototypes and metrics for new billing systems, based on API usage levels.
• Worked with Kubernetes for deployments and Prometheus, creating many time real-time analytics, metrics, alerting, and dashboards for our services.

### Software Engineer @ Goldman Sachs
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Working as a Software Engineer, on the Marcus Apple Card Data Team.
• Working with large data sets daily, and creating new ETL pipelines and workflows, while using tools such as Airflow, Pyspark, AWS, etc.
• Working Directly with multiple partners, in order to design build and deploy different ETL solutions,
which helped both business efficiency and productivity

### Software Engineering Intern @ Goldman Sachs
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Jersey City, New Jersey
• Implemented a rest service for on demand Trace Route processing using Java and Spring
• Created Multiple rest endpoints for both submitting trace route requests and saving data to ElasticSearch
• Application alerts user, through the use of RabbitMQ, when the response becomes available after the request is submitted
• Additionally, checks ElasticSearch for a recent response before submitting a request
• Created a Kafka consumer to continuously process traceroute responses from Kafka Streams
• Pushes responses to ElasticSearch through the service above and pushes metrics from the data to an internal tool

### Software Engineering Intern @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Folsom, California
• Worked on prototyping windows driver framework drivers
• Wrote python scripts in order to parse through power management data from different systems and then summarize the data into one csv file
• Built a prototype windows service that enabled UWP (windows store apps) to be automatically launched from the service, and enable RPC communication to send data between the UWP app and windows service

### Software Development Intern @ Medium One
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Assisted with workflow development specifically in python. Worked on developing workflows on Medium One’s cloud platform and testing said workflows with Renesas RX231 boards
• Developed vibration workflow which tested vibration through RX231 board and then sent out relevant stats to the user
• Worked on testing certain parts of the Medium One Website with Selenium testing through python.
• Used Java robots in order to simulate data through Medium One API

### Engineering Intern @ Santa Clara University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Worked in the materials testing lab, on a project to create a more efficient and organic concrete mixture


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Informatics
University of Washington


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/chaigangavarapu
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Last updated: 2026-03-23