Damini Shikha Chawla

Senior Software Engineer at Tessel Cloud · Distributed databases · performance engineering, Rust

Tessel Cloud

Noida, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

5+ years experience

IIIT Bangalore

English, Hindi

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Based in Noida. I work on distributed databases at Tessel Cloud. Built the experimentation framework 16 product teams use to ship changes safely. Brought on-call pages for storage down from 20 a week to 4. Big believer in written communication.

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performance engineeringconsensusRustC++

Experience

Senior Software Engineer
Jul 2025 - Present
Tessel Cloud · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
- Grew the storage team from 4 to 20 engineers.
- Brought on-call pages for storage down from 39 a week to 3.
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 45 minutes to under 6.
Software Engineer
Jul 2023 - Jul 2025
Paytm · 2 yr · Full-time · Noida, India
- Shipped 13 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
- Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 855ms to 80ms.
Software Engineer
Oct 2021 - Jul 2023
ICICI Bank · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 22 minutes to under 6.

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Education

IIIT Bangalore
M.Tech, Information Technology
2021 - 2023
Manipal Institute of Technology
B.Tech, Information Technology
2016 - 2020

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