# Chandresh Kapadia > Staff Software Engineer @ Coinbase Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/chandresh ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase @ Coinbase Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Founding Engineer & Tech Lead | Prime Financing Currently, I lead a team of engineers, driving the technical strategy, design, and roadmap for our pod, continuously striving to deliver impactful, high-performance financial services As one of the founding engineers, I have been instrumental in taking Prime Financing from an early-stage venture bet to becoming a core pillar of Coinbase's institutional product offerings. With a focus on building robust and highly scalable backend services, I’ve played a pivotal role in launching a range of critical products and services: ■ Financing Admin Service ■ Credit Monitoring Service ■ Liquidation Service ■ Settlement Service Re-architecture ■ Prime Plus ■ Rehypothecation Workflows ■ Trader Tooling ■ Critical Performance Improvements ■ Multi Lender Agency Lending ■ INTX Margin Loans ■ Incident Management and more... In addition to leading the technical development, I’ve also mentored multiple engineers and interns. ### Engineering at Yelp @ Yelp Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Tech Lead | Ads Supply & Backend As a Tech Lead within the Ads organization, I led the design and development of key initiatives, including: ■ Daisy Chaining Ads Initiative ■ Themed Ads Initiative In addition to leading these projects, I played a critical role in mentoring engineers and actively contributed to the redesign of the Ads supply infrastructure, ensuring it is robust, scalable, and optimized for performance. ### Engineering at Datrium (Acquired by VMware) @ Datrium (Acquired by VMware) Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Tech Lead - Infra and ESX Platform (One of the first 30 employees) Infra Team: Responsible for developing several reusable infrastructure libraries that were widely adopted within the company and served as foundational elements for many product releases, including: ■ Configuration V2 ■ Log Management ■ Health Monitoring ESX Platform Team: ■ Led efforts to build a highly stable ESX platform, significantly reducing incidents and customer complaints. ■ Received praise from Co-Founder Hugo Patterson: "Thank you for all the hard work including all the many customer cases you jumped on. The server side is much more solid and customers are much happier as a result of all you’ve done. It was a big contribution." ### Senior Software Engineer @ Dell Technologies Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Greater Boston Area ### Software Engineer || @ Dell Technologies Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Greater Boston Area Selected as one of 10 participants from 8,000 applicants for the prestigious Leadership Engineering Accelerated Program. In this role, I was responsible for developing new features for CSX, a cutting-edge infrastructure that allows the creation of data path software components capable of running in both user and kernel space across commodity operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD. EMC Innovation Conference (Innovation Project) I proposed a new product for EMC at their Innovation Conference, collaborating closely with customers and the sales team to gather market requirements across different segments. I then developed the design and architecture for the new product, ensuring it met market needs and aligned with EMC’s innovation goals. ### Graduate Student Researcher @ Northeastern University Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 Dr. Peter Desnoyers - Solid State Storage Labs Research Project: Implemented support for Hadoop (a Java-based map/reduce framework) Ty on the Triton ARM-based embedded system running Linux. Results were added to NSF proposal. ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chandreshkapadia - Portfolio: http://www.northeastern.edu/leap/ - Portfolio: http://www.northeastern.edu/nucret/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/chandresh JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/chandresh/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12