Summary
  • Platform-focused backend engineer with ~5 years experience building large-scale integration and data processing systems.
  • Focused on observability, monitoring, alerting, and internal developer platforms.
  • Specializes in observability, alerting, and internal developer platforms that improve reliability and operational clarity.
  • Comfortable owning critical infrastructure end-to-end in production.
Experience
Product Development Engineer II @ Phenom May 2025 – Present
  • Took end-to-end ownership of monitoring and alerting for a complex multi-tenant integration ecosystem with versioned deployments.
  • Designed and managed Prometheus-based metrics, APM instrumentation, and custom mobile alerting systems.
  • Built a large internal visibility platform unifying dashboards, developer tooling, alerts, and runtime metadata into a single centralized application.
  • Defined error classification standards and customer-facing error mapping to improve signal-to-noise ratio and reduce alert fatigue.
  • Built intelligent agents that simplified complex workflows by abstracting intricate system interactions behind structured user inputs.
  • Support production stability, incident root-cause analysis, and onboarding services into the observability stack.
Product Development Engineer I @ Phenom Mar 2022 – May 2025
  • Built Apache NiFi and Apache Flink pipelines including custom NiFi processors for large-scale job synchronization.
  • Delivered high-complexity pipelines for customers with strict 15-minute SLAs for career site synchronization.
  • Designed and built an open-source Chrome extension that dramatically simplified NiFi flow discovery and navigation, saving thousands of developer hours.
  • Built internal automation tools and self-healing services that pushed platform success rates toward 99%.
  • Handled cross-team production incidents and issue triage.
  • Worked extensively with Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Docker, Java, Spring Boot, and FastAPI.
Systems Engineer @ Tata Consultancy Services Jun 2021 – Mar 2022
  • Automated complex ServiceNow reporting workflows using Python that previously required months of manual effort, enabling on-demand and scheduled report generation with email delivery.
  • Built validation pipelines spanning subscription management and ITSM modules.
  • Integrated external services into ServiceNow with emphasis on reliability and reducing operational friction.
Open Source & Contributions

networkx Contributed to networkx v3.3 (Python graph library)

github.com/networkx/networkx

RESP Parser Built a Redis RESP protocol parser & encoder in Java, published to Maven Central

mvnrepository.com/artifact/me.chiranjeevikarthik.resp/RESP

Self-Hosted Infrastructure Runs a personal infrastructure environment with Docker, Docker Compose, Dokploy, Caddy, Authelia, and Authentik across multiple servers with custom networking, reverse proxies, monitoring, and backups.