Chaitanya Waikar
Software Engineer at Zalando SE
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolChaitanya Waikar is a pragmatic software engineer based in Berlin with eight years of hands-on experience building low-latency, high-throughput backends for e-commerce and security domains. He specializes in Scala/Akka microservices, streaming systems, and AWS/Kubernetes deployments, having operated mission-critical services for Zalando’s customer-facing flows like PDP, Cart and Checkout. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs event-driven architecture and observability (Nakadi, Elasticsearch, CloudWatch) with pragmatic DevOps practices to ensure availability during peak events such as Cyberweek. Prior roles at ThoughtWorks, Perseus, and Infosys show a consistent focus on concurrency, scalability and data-intensive systems, from IAM microservices to big-data POCs. Known for taking projects from ideation to production, he blends deep technical execution with clear stakeholder communication.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 9.07/10, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 9.07/10 at Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management
German, English, Marathi
Github Skills (17)
kotlin10
groovy10
build-system10
java10
android10
maven10
gradle10
scala-native9
jvm9
scala9
sbt9
functional-programming8
subprocess6
filesystem6
cats-effect2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chaitanyawaikar/chaitanyawaikar
Dec 2020 - Jun 2024
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
chaitanyawaikar/mill
Oct 2024 - Jun 2025
Mill is a fast JVM build tool that supports Java and Scala. 2-3x faster than Gradle and 5-10x faster than Maven for common workflows, Mill aims to make your project’s build process performant, maintainable, and flexible
Contributions:25 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
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