# Chirrag Nangia > Software Engineer at Meta | Ex-Lucid | Ex-Microsoft | NCSU Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/chirrag Areas of interest include Machine Learning, Web Microservices, Distributed Systems, Data Science Interested in exploring software engineering roles. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2023 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States ### Software Engineer II @ Lucid Software Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 ### Software Engineer Intern @ Lucid Software Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States ### Graduate Assistant @ North Carolina State University Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States Assisted Dr. Lokendra Pal in his research on Municipal Solid Waste Characterization. Developed a pipeline to build a data repository consisting of high spectral images and other sensory data (such as moisture, weight) on the cloud used for training ML models. Created a React Frontend Application with a Django backend service that leveraged IBM Cloud services like the Cloud Object Storage & Cloudant NoSQL Storage. Hosted the application code on NCSU Enterprise Github, created CI/CD pipelines using IBM Cloud Toolchains & used Kubernetes for orchestrating the deployment of containerized applications. ### Software Engineer 2 @ Microsoft Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 As part of the Special Clouds Engineering Team, conceptualised & designed a common buildout orchestration platform that automates the task of setting up a new cloud with a large number of Microsoft365 services (that use different deployment engines). This platform helped in scaling different cloud types - GoLocal, Sovereign, Air-Gapped Clouds in a region agnostic manner and reduced the cloud setup time from 3 yrs to 3 months. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Paytm Mall Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Noida Area, India As a part of the Product Selection Platform team, worked on improving the efficiency of the algorithms for recommending Popular, Similar and Frequently Bought Together products for the e-commerce platform. Worked on improving the click through rate of the products. Also developed RESTful microservices using Java and the Spring framework. ### Senior Software Engineer @ MakeMyTrip Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Gurgaon, India Responsible for integrating Amazon Pay SDK with the payments module of MakeMyTrip. Handled the problems of network drops and facilitated automated refunds. ### Software Engineer @ Livspace Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Bengaluru Area, India Developed a pipeline that uploads bulk images and scales them for different purposes to be used on the Company's website. Added support for sending personalized emails with the intelligence of tracking email open and click events. ### Software Engineer @ Autoninja Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Bengaluru Area, India - Built a task scheduler using Apache Airflow that determines the execution order using a DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) of tasks and optimizes performance by asynchronous execution of independent nodes. - Developed a CSV parsing engine for validating bulk data using custom criteria. It checked for mandatory fields, verified format, and ensured column values met specific requirements before injecting validated data into tables. ### Teaching Assistant @ Coding Blocks Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | New Delhi Area, India Taught and mentored around 50 students in Data Structures, Algorithms and OOP concepts. ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science North Carolina State University Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 ### Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Electronics and Communications Engineering Delhi College of Engineering Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ### Manav Sthali School Jan 1998 – Jan 2012 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chirragnangia --- Source: https://flows.cv/chirrag JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/chirrag/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22