# 🦋 Saran Chockan

> Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/saran

I have been developing software with experience in backend, distributed systems, real-time streaming, and full-stack development. Worked with technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Python, React, Apache Beam, Postgres, and Amazon Web Services.

Aside from work, I love playing racket sports (table tennis, pickleball, badminton), competing in online blitz chess, and reading post-modernist philosophy. 

Feel free to reach out if you want to chat!

## Work Experience
### Member of Technical Staff @ Anthropic
Jan 2026 – Present

### Forward Deployed Engineer, Tech Lead @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | New York, New York, United States
Delivered forward-deployed, customer-critical solutions at the edge of product, re-architected a $100M+/yr enterprise backend service for high availability and multi-node scalability, investigated / recovered ground-breaking data for Alzheimer’s ML Research, authored / implemented integration between native calendar applications (Apple, Google, Outlook) and critical Palantir scheduling applications for Hospitals, Finance, etc

Served as Technical Architect for developer platform experience (enterprise app development, release management); led architecture and hands-on development of a global Pricing Governance Engine (500+ users, 7K+ products, 120+ countries), a key driver in securing a 5-year, $XXM enterprise contract

Built an AI Coding Assistant prototype for Palantir’s Functions Builder and contributed to AIP Developer Assist’s context augmentation architecture, enabling high-quality LLM code generation with IDE integrations and test-driven development

Scoped and built zero-to-one LLM applications in Equipment Maintenance, Market Pricing, Legal, Procurement

Customer Verticals: Oil & Gas, Hospitals, Life Sciences

Technologies: Java, TypeScript, Python, GraphQL, LLMs, React, Git, DevTools

### Career Coach @ The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Austin, Texas, United States

### Engineer, Projects Director @ Texas Product Engineering Organization
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Austin, Texas, United States

### Software Engineer @ Lyft
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
Rideshare Pricing - Realtime Optimization

Python, Apache Beam

Built and implemented a platform for the seamless building and deployment of real-time data streaming pipelines 
Increased real-time data parity by 4x and cut down infrastructure cost by 50% by leveraging Kafka and Apache Beam 
Reduced pipeline development time from weeks to days for 10+ teams to aggregate supply/demand signals for Pricing 
Wrote 2,500+ lines of Python code with 93% e2e unit test coverage and implemented e2e observability with Grafana
Collaborated with staff engineers, stakeholders to come up with detailed technical design and conduct infra migration

### Software Engineer @ Privacera
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Fremont, California, United States
Center of Excellence

Python, SQL, Dagster, Superset, Docker, Jenkins

### Software Engineer @ Lyft
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States
Rideshare - Pricing Orchestration

Go

Wrote 3000+ lines of Go code to build a microservice-graph visualization tool to significantly improve code reliability and save weeks of engineering development of Pricing features
Collaborated with senior engineers and stakeholders to write out 15-page tech spec and execution plan

### Software Engineer @ PatchRx
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Antonio, Texas
Utilized AWS DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, QuickSight to setup data pipeline infrastructure that collects and displays data from medication devices for multiple pharmacy clients (H-E-B, Allen) to analyze daily medication adherence data of 1000+ patients 

Worked on 10+ React Native UI/UX and AWS API features such as profile picture functionality, settings UI update, buddy invitation bug, etc. in response to user-review feedback under tight time constraints to release app to users on schedule

Setup the entire mobile analytics infrastructure utilizing Firehose, QuickSight to gain KPI insights (Daily Active Users, New Users, Hours of Usage, etc.) and feature usage metrics (Medication Added, Buddy Added, etc.)

### Founder, Software Engineer @ Flexcel
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Flexcel is a strategizing software for competitive high school debaters at state and national level tournaments 

Deployed app on Apple and Microsoft Store, acquiring 25000+ downloads and 50,000+ hours of total usage 
Recognized by the #1 national debate institution (Premier Debate) as the fastest strategizing software for debate
Wrote out product specs by conducting user-research with several national debate institutions and top debaters to come up with disruptive innovative features such as autocompletion, side-by-side speech documents, custom templates
Wrote 3000+ lines of JavaScript to add several functionalities such as hotkeys, word-document integration, saving user preferences and data, etc


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin

### Clements High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29