Chandrika Gole
Director Of Engineering, Developer Experience at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChandrika Gole is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling developer-facing teams and platforms across startups and Fortune 500s, now serving as Director of Engineering, Developer Experience at Meta in San Francisco. She has a strong track record of modernizing large products into cloud-native, microservices architectures and driving CI/CD, observability, and on-call practices for high-availability services. Chandrika blends hands-on engineering roots—early work in QA, DevOps, and tooling at StrongLoop/Red Hat and contributions to projects like the LoopBack MySQL connector—with strategic program leadership overseeing 60+ engineers and multi-team roadmaps. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic operator who coaches managers, streamlines processes with GitHub/ZenHub workflows, and focuses relentlessly on customer adoption and release quality. She holds a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of San Francisco and brings a rare combination of startup “wear-many-hats” agility and enterprise delivery discipline.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at University of San FranciscoEngineer’s Degree, Compute, Engineer’s Degree, Compute at University of Mumbai
Github Skills (5)
nodejs10
environment-variables10
mysql10
devops9
testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
loopbackio/loopback-connector-mysql
Aug 2013 - Nov 2015
Loopback Connector for MySQL
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Chandrika primarily focused on configuring the testing environment for the MySQL connector. They added environment variables for database credentials, including host, port, username, and password. Their contributions involved modifying the initialization file to read these environment variables and configure the test database connection. Furthermore, they removed console logs to improve code cleanliness.
loopbackmysqlloopback4nodejs
strongloop/openshift-cartridge-strongloop
Nov 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:39 commits in 9 months
suiteopenshiftcartridgestrongloop
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