Chhavi Kalra

Overview

I've spent 12 years on growth engineering - first at Axis Bank, now at Cairn Energy. Moved 65% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: Hindustan Unilever and Microsoft. Most at home with React and analytics. Learning to sail.

Answers in batches on Fridays

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Dec 2024 - Present
   Cairn Energy · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
   • Shipped 27 launches on the growth team without a rollback.
   • Cut p99 latency on the growth services from 693ms to 117ms.
2. Full-Stack Engineer

   Sep 2022 - Dec 2024
   Hindustan Unilever · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on growth by 21% in two quarters.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 30 minutes to under 3.
3. Full-Stack Engineer

   Dec 2020 - Sep 2022
   Microsoft · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
   • Brought on-call pages for growth down from 21 a week to 2.
   • Wrote the TypeScript service that now handles 49 million requests a day.
4. Full-Stack Engineer

   Oct 2017 - Dec 2020
   MakeMyTrip · 3 yr 2 mo · Contract · New Delhi, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 37 minutes to under 4.
5. Full-Stack Engineer

   Jun 2015 - Oct 2017
   Axis Bank · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 24 minutes to under 2.

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Education

1. IIT Roorkee

   B.Tech, Mathematics
   2010 - 2014