# Chetan Gowda

> Software Engineer - Interested in building large scale systems. Ex-Bolt, Ex-Facebook, Ex-Yahoo!

Location: Fremont, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chetangowda

Fighting spam.

Specialties: C, C++, PHP, Javascript, Golang.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Temporal Technologies
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Bolt
Jan 2016 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Early engineer. Played various roles as the company scaled.
Developed and owned features/services across the stack - Ex: ApplePay Integration, Async Job framework, DB interfaces, Fraud detection infra, Shopper Accounts product (auth, session management etc) and many internal developer tools.

### Engineering Manager @ Bolt
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led the Shopper account team of about 17 members.

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2009 – Jan 2016 | Menlo Park, California, United States
- Early team member of Site Integrity - FB’s spam and abuse fighting team. Built various tools that helped us improve our response time and remediation. Led the efforts of malware spam prevention on Facebook.
- Helped Parse (an acquisition) migrate to FB infrastructure. Rewrote JS applications in Go.
- Helped build the backend for custom push notification product for FB developers.

### Software Applications Engineer. @ Yahoo!
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009
Organized Yahoo! shopping feeds.

### Software Engineer @ Yahoo! India.
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
Collected stats on search keywords.

### Software Engineer @ Tata Elxsi
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006
Developed SIP stack for embedded phones.


## Education
### Bachelor in Engineeering in Information Technology
Visvesvaraya Technological University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chetan-gowda-6b0a9012

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Last updated: 2026-04-05