Chaitanya Chandolu (CSK)

Leading multiple engineering teams to reduce SMS based costs for Google, reduce spam in Google Messages and establish a phone number graph for all Google users'. Cost Reduction • Leading a Google wide effort to reduce cost of phone verifications. On track to save upwards of $1B by 2026. Already proven savings of more than $3xxM in 2024. • Created a vision for verifying & authorizing phone numbers without the need for SMSes. Partnering with Telecom industry to create an Android based interface directly with carriers (https://www.gsma.com/solutions-and-impact/gsma-open-gateway/). Spam Reduction in Google Messages • Created a broad vision & strategy & a team from scratch to detect and stop spammers from entering the Google messages (RCS) ecosystem • Partnered with myriad functions including Trust & Safety, Data Science and other spam experts to create a brand new AI based Trust model for classifying devices & phone numbers Phone number graph • Created the largest phone number graph (~3B) for various Android products to operate on (Google Messages, Anti theft of devices, Satellite 911, Quick Share, etc). • Created the largest phone number graph interconnected with Google identities (~2B) for various Google products to provide seamless operations between Google identity and phone number identity (Ex: Google Meet, G Pay, Photos, Youtube etc)

• Spearheaded the creation of a new revenue growth stream for Google Workspace by upselling Security products, resulting in an additional $XXXM ARR. • Streamlined processes across multiple organizations by integrating disparate systems, leading to a 30x improvement in "hot" lead generation.

• Led multiple teams to develop iOS & MacOS Endpoint Management solutions for Workspace Enterprise customers. (https://workspace.google.com/products/admin/endpoint/) • Collaborated cross-functionally to create a premium security product "iOS Data Protection" for Workspace SKU upgrades. (https://support.google.com/a/answer/6328700?hl=en#data_protection&zippy=%2Cdata-actions)

Multi-product owner of Bloomberg's buyside, and sellside, fixed income portal [TSOX] for orders, trading functionality and pre-trade analytics. Responsible for the highly available, mission critical trading software with trading volumes of around Trillion dollars per day. Envisioned, presented and got sponsorship from top management and business to build the next generation horizontally scalable, low latency and a high throughput fixed income trading system. Led and built several cross functional, cross country business initiatives from scratch including exchange trading in TSOX and pre-trade analytics [PEX] To execute on the vision, built multiple functional teams with a goal oriented approach, made strategic hires to fill the missing gaps on domain and technical expertise.

Product owner of Bloomberg's buyside trade data aggregation and reporting - to provide reporting needs on the client's P&L, positions, trades, audit, compliance, regulatory information over the past 7 years. Took charge to turnaround an at-risk product that had throughput and quality issues. Envisioned the need for a data scrubbing tool and created a new functional team that led cross country projects within the company to improve quality. Responsible for overseeing, growing and retaining 25+ individual contributors as well as engineering managers

Responsible for a mission critical, low-latency real time compliance and regulatory management system that ensures the traders and portfolio managers do not violate any regulatory and firm rules. Lead Architect to improve resiliency and to completely eliminate down time. Received a T-star award for my contributions to this team and product

Responsible for a low latency, deadline driven mortgage trading system. Lead architect to parallelize processing and improve throughput.

Software Developer

Worked in the newly formed Embedded Systems division in Satyam Computer Services Ltd.