Chetan Gandotra

SWE at Google

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

About

Software Engineer at Google: Nov 2020 - Present Senior Software Engineer at Salesforce: Jan 2018 - Nov 2020 M.S. from UC San Diego (CSE with specialization in AI/ML): Sep 2016 - Dec 2017 Software Engineer at Informatica: June 2015 - Aug 2016 Not looking for any entrepreneurship opportunities.

Experience

  • Google (5 yrs 9 mos)
    • Senior Software Engineer
      Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos

    • Senior Software Engineer
      Mar 2024 - Mar 2026 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    • Tech Lead & Manager
      Mar 2023 - Mar 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Salesforce ()
    • Senior Software Engineer
      May 2019 - Nov 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

      - SME backend (Java) developer on the Essentials Adoption team. - Building data models and REST APIs for Salesforce's service use cases. - Delivered Google Email-to-case, a powerful feature to sync your Gmail support inbox with Salesforce cases, using Kafka, Message Queue, and OAuth. - Feature lead on 'One Touch Voice' a Twilio Voice integration solution for Salesforce's Service scenarios. - Making setup procedures (such as those for digital engagement, email-to-case, social integration, data import, etc.) simple for SMB customers so that they don't need to invest in hiring a Salesforce admin and can hit the ground running. - Built and shipped the backend for new Lightning Web Components based UI for SMB customers. - Worked on https://work.com Queue Management app, an effective digital waitlist to reopen businesses safely amidst Covid-19. - Subject Matter Expert and Teacher of Salesforce's CI/CD and JUnit best practices at the new hire Bootcamp program, having taught sessions in-person in the US, Canada, and Israel offices. - Engineering Best Practices mentor for a group of teams. - In addition to development, contributing to quality assurance tasks including but not limited to writing comprehensive test plans, unit (Java + JS) tests, and integration tests. - Mentored multiple new hires on-board to the team efficiently

    • Member Of Technical Staff
      Jan 2018 - May 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Full-stack hybrid engineer on the Essentials Setup/Experience teams. Transitioned into a backend role over time.

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant at University of California San Diego
    Sep 2017 - Dec 2017 · 4 mos

    Teaching Assistant for the graduate course DSE 203: Data Integration and ETL

  • Software Engineering Intern at Salesforce
    Jun 2017 - Sep 2017 · 4 mos

    SWE on Lightning Service Trials team - Developed new walkthroughs for the service trials experience - Worked on branding features for the trial experience - Contributed to team sprint stories/bug-fixes/test failure handling

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant at University of California San Diego
    Mar 2017 - Jun 2017 · 4 mos

    Graduate Teaching Assistant for the course DSE 220: Machine Learning with Prof. Volkan Vural. The DSE is a part of UC San Diego's Master of Advanced Study Degree wherein working professional engineers attend the Master's program being offered to them during weekend classes.