Summary
Srikalyan Chandrashekar is a senior principal software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 13 years of experience building large-scale data and analytics platforms, currently leading engineering efforts at Apple. He has deep expertise in big data, ETL, and query-generation systems—shaping analytics for Apple Media Products and earlier driving advertiser reporting compilers and low-latency pipelines at Yahoo. His background spans backend infrastructure, distributed processing, and developer tooling from Oracle and Sun, where he built log-mining clusters, observability dashboards, and JavaFX runtime tooling. Known for turning complex requirements into practical, production-ready systems, he blends systems-level engineering with product-minded thinking and has a habit of building developer-facing tools and compilers that reveal hard-to-see operational insights. He holds an MS in Computer Science from USC and a BE in Electronics and Communication, bringing a rare mix of academic grounding and hands-on systems craftsmanship.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS, computer science, MS, computer science at University of Southern California
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad