Chirag Thakkar

About Chirag Thakkar

I’m a senior software engineer who builds high-scale platforms and leads cross-org delivery across ambiguous problem spaces especially where correctness, compliance, and reliability matter as much as throughput. I’ve designed and shipped systems spanning:* AWS Billing/Metering: regionalization + governance enforcement patterns, incident prevention, and low-latency compliance mechanisms.* S3 Storage Management: a unified streaming task scheduler platform (fairness, rate-limiting, at-least-once execution) and large-scale data integrity verification workflows.* Performance/Latency: end-to-end latency visibility + architectural fixes across multi-team pipelines (e.g, speculative execution, caching, bottleneck attribution).* Data platforms & quality systems: mesh-oriented onboarding, schema-as-code, Iceberg-based analytics foundations, and deterministic validation/orchestration to reduce ambiguity and human toil.

Experience

1. Sr Software Development Engineer - Amazon Leo

   Amazon

   Jan 2025 — Present

   Led a self-serve AWS data platform/data mesh (Iceberg/Spark) with governance, PII guardrails, lineage, and reusable constructs to scale onboarding without a central bottleneck. Drove cross-org alignment on governance, PII handling, lineage, and operational readiness to scale adoption.

Education

• SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering

  2008 — 2012

• North Carolina State University

  Master's degree, Computer Science

  2012 — 2014