Chetan Dwarkani Resume ↓
Chetan Dwarkani

Hi, This is Chetan Dwarkani
Engineering Manager · Member of Leadership Staff, SurveySparrow · Chennai, IN

Technical Engineering leader for the agentic AI era.

An engineering leader with 9+ years of progressive experience spanning hands-on full-stack development and team leadership. I've architected scalable multi-tenant platforms, led the transformation of microservices into agentic AI-driven workflows (~5× velocity gains), and built high-performing cross-functional teams — equally comfortable setting technical strategy with leadership as I am pairing with engineers on critical system design.

01 · About

Behind the title.

I'm an engineering leader with 9+ years of progressive experience spanning hands-on full-stack development and team leadership — currently serving as Engineering Manager at SurveySparrow, where I thrive at the intersection of technical depth and organisational impact.

I operate with a strong IC engineering instinct while owning hiring, mentorship, and delivery across multiple squads. The range runs wide — full-stack product work, mobile, ML pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and multi-tenant platforms — and I'm equally comfortable setting technical strategy with leadership as I am pairing with engineers on critical system design.

Most of my current energy goes into agentic AI — orchestrating LLM workflows with LangGraph and LangChain, and rethinking how engineering teams ship in an AI-first world. A big part of that is making our codebases AI-ready: driving initiatives that upgrade documentation, conventions, and team skills so AI tools genuinely understand our systems and write better code with us. Alongside it, I stay close to every new product we build — involved from day one in the scalable system-design decisions that shape it.

At a glance

  • ROLEEngineering Manager (Leadership Staff), SurveySparrow
  • BASEChennai, India
  • EXPERIENCE9+ years
  • FOCUSAgentic AI · Platforms · Teams
  • EDUCATIONB.Tech, SRM Easwari · State Rank 44

02 · Selected work

Things I've built and shipped.

From revenue platforms and developer ecosystems to ML pipelines and real-time apps — a few things I'm proud of, all shipped to production.

RUNNING · 2024 — PRESENT · COMPANY-WIDE

Agentic AI delivery transformation

Led the shift of microservices into agentic AI-driven workflows on LangGraph/LangChain with LLM orchestration — lifting end-to-end delivery velocity roughly 5×. Includes an AI support chatbot wired into HubSpot, Stripe, and internal systems that automates revenue-reconciliation insights and cuts resolution time.

~5× velocityLangGraphLangChainLLM orchestrationRAG

SHIPPED · "SPARROW PAY"

Multi-tenant subscription billing

The full billing lifecycle — quoting, invoicing, payment processing, smart-retry dunning, renewals — for 5,000+ active subscriptions. Eliminated revenue leakage and hardened renewal reliability.

5,000+ subsStripeDunningPeople's Choice '23

SHIPPED · EMAIL PLATFORM

Event-driven email infrastructure

One governed pipeline (AWS SQS/SNS) for every transactional and product email company-wide — SPF/DKIM/DMARC validation, spam-signal detection, deliverability guardrails protecting sender reputation.

SQS / SNSSPF · DKIM · DMARCDeliverability ↑

SHIPPED · MARKETPLACE

SurveySparrow Marketplace

A developer platform — AppNest SDK, REST APIs, in-product Copilot — where customers build, publish, and install third-party integrations. A self-serve app ecosystem on top of the product.

AppNest SDKREST APIsCopilot

SHIPPED · INFRASTRUCTURE

Kubernetes at growth speed

Scaled EKS to absorb 50% traffic growth while cutting deployments from 30 to 5 minutes, holding 99.8% uptime, and reducing infrastructure cost through CI/CD modernisation with Jenkins and Docker.

30→5 min deploysEKSDockerJenkins

SHIPPED · "BILL SPARROW"

Subscription activation management

An advanced activation-management tool that now powers all internal billing and subscription operations at SurveySparrow — recognised with the company-wide Spotlight Award.

Billing opsInternal platformSpotlight '25

SHIPPED · ATTAINMENT CALCULATION

Real-time GTM incentive payouts

Calculates incentive payouts for SDR, Sales, and Farming teams the moment a deal closes — no month-end wait. Earned the Ahead of the Curve recognition.

Real-timeGTMAhead of the Curve '25

SHIPPED · KRIYADOCS

NLP & ML for research publishing

A custom grammar-correction model (Flair pipeline, POS/NER) and AnyStyle bibliography parsing trained on a 2,000+ document corpus — productionised as scalable Flask microservices.

NLP / MLFlairFlask2,000+ docs

SHIPPED · NANO DIGITAL

MyKarma — live trivia at scale

Led Android for a live subscriber trivia app — real-time gameplay, live video streaming, FCM notifications, and low-latency networking that held up through high-concurrency live sessions.

AndroidReal-timeLive video
Also shipped: internal admin panel for ops teams CRM integrations — HubSpot, Vitally, Apollo, Zendesk ETL re-architecture −70% report latency Agentic AI code review +20% build quality

03 · The journey

From first commit to leadership staff.

Nine-plus years, four promotions in the last four — without ever stepping away from system design.

Engineering Manager · SurveySparrow

APR 2022 — PRESENT

Member of Leadership Staff. I own multiple squads across platform, growth, and infrastructure — setting technical strategy with leadership while still pairing with engineers on critical system design.

Lead Engineer L1
2022
Lead Engineer L2
2023
Associate EM
2024
Leadership Staff
now
  • Led the transformation of microservices into agentic AI-driven workflows (LangGraph/LangChain, LLM orchestration) — ~5× delivery velocity, including an AI support chatbot integrating HubSpot, Stripe, and internal systems for automated revenue-reconciliation insights.
  • Architected "Sparrow Pay," a multi-tenant subscription management platform supporting 5,000+ active subscriptions across the full billing lifecycle — quoting, invoicing, payment processing, smart-retry dunning, renewals — eliminating revenue leakage.
  • Architected the event-driven email platform (AWS SQS/SNS) governing all transactional and product email company-wide — SPF/DKIM/DMARC validation, spam-signal detection, deliverability guardrails.
  • Led the team behind SurveySparrow Marketplace — AppNest SDK, REST APIs, in-product Copilot — a self-serve ecosystem for third-party integrations.
  • Directed the Product-Led Growth squad with product and GTM stakeholders — data-driven experiments that lifted activation, cut churn, and contributed measurably to ARR expansion.
  • Scaled Kubernetes (AWS EKS) to handle 50% traffic growth — deployments cut from 30 to 5 minutes, 99.8% uptime, lower infrastructure cost via Jenkins/Docker CI-CD.
  • Led engineering-excellence initiatives — ETL re-architecture with data governance (−70% report latency) plus observability and automated testing, including an AI-powered agentic code-review system (+20% build quality).
  • Built and scaled a 15-engineer team across frontend, backend, and infrastructure — hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and career paths that produced multiple senior/lead promotions.
  • Own key CRM integrations — HubSpot, Vitally, Apollo, Zendesk — keeping customer data in sync across the stack.
  • Spearheaded an internal admin panel product — intuitive workflows that improved operational efficiency for internal teams.

Senior Software Engineer · kriyaDocs

AUG 2020 — APR 2022
  • Built and scaled the KriyaDocs product — scalable frontend applications in Vue.js, React, and TypeScript, and the optimised Node.js microservice APIs powering the platform.
  • Cloud-native backend for a reference-tagging & validation engine for research manuscripts — improved citation accuracy and throughput.
  • Trained a grammar-correction ML model (Flair, POS/NER) and integrated the AnyStyle NLP model on a 2,000+ document corpus; productionised as Flask microservices.
  • High-performance retrieval with Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL; test automation with Mocha & Cypress.

Software Engineer · Kaleidofin

OCT 2019 — AUG 2020
  • Revamped the Android app architecture to MVVM + LiveData + Repository — cleaner separation of concerns, better testability, lifecycle-aware state; implemented Navigation, DataBinding, Retrofit, and Room DB for robust offline handling.
  • Collaborated on backend microservices in Java, implementing processing logic for financial workflows and customer operations.
  • Contributed to SaaS web application development — Node.js, React.js, JavaScript — for internal tools and customer-facing interfaces.

Software Engineer · Nano Digital Media

DEC 2017 — AUG 2019
  • Led Android development for MyKarma, a live subscriber-based trivia app — real-time gameplay, live video streaming, FCM notifications, and low-latency networking across diverse devices.
  • Built and integrated Node.js backend APIs for quiz logic, scoring, subscriptions, and real-time data processing within a scalable microservices architecture.
  • Hardened the app with ProGuard obfuscation, Material Design–compliant animations, and performance-optimised algorithms for high-concurrency live sessions.

EDU  B.Tech, SRM Easwari Engineering College (2013–2017) · CGPA 8.43/10 · State Rank 44, Tamil Nadu

04 · Beyond the job

What keeps the curiosity fed.

The through-line of everything below: give me a constraint and a deadline, and I'm happy.

Hackathons

National winner at Lynk Hacks 2.0, People's Choice at Sparcade for an AI-agents CRM built in 3 days, 2nd at SpriteXtreme, and a college-era trail of top-3 finishes. I enter for the deadline adrenaline — and because the best prototypes start as dares.

IoT tinkering → IEEE

Before LLMs there were sensors. Two undergrad experiments — smart farming automation and remote health monitoring — grew up into IEEE TIAR papers (2015, 2017). Proof that a weekend project can outlive the weekend.

AI-assisted building

Daily drivers: Cursor and Claude Code. Current obsession: agentic workflows with LangGraph — the same stack behind the 5× story above. I like tools that change what one person can ship.

Growing engineers

The part of management I'd do for free: career-path conversations. Several engineers I've coached now hold senior and lead roles. Mentoring is the highest-leverage system I know.

05 · Recognition

Peer-voted, leadership-recognised, IEEE-published.

Awards

  • H2 2025Ahead of the Curve — led the Attainment Calculation product: real-time GTM incentive payouts on deal closure. Certificate ↗
  • Q2 2025Spotlight Award — built Bill Sparrow, now powering all internal billing & subscription ops. Certificate ↗
  • MAR 2024People's Choice, Sparcade Hackathon — AI-agents CRM, concept to live demo in 3 days. Certificate ↗
  • DEC 2023People's Choice, company showcase — for leading Sparrow Pay. Certificate ↗
  • NOV 2022Dashing Debut — exceptional early impact, company annual meet. Certificate ↗
  • SEP 2019National Hackathon Winner — Lynk Hacks 2.0 — India-level, organised by Lynk Logistics / India Cements.
View all other achievement certificates ↗

Publications · IEEE

  • Smart Farming System Using Sensors for Agricultural Task Automation
    IEEE TIAR 2015 · doi:10.1109/TIAR.2015.7358530 ↗
  • Smart Remote Health Hack Using Internet of Things
    IEEE TIAR 2017

06 · Say hello

Whatever brings you here — say hello.

Fellow builders: I'm always up for trading notes on agentic AI, platform design, or the hackathon you're plotting. Recruiters and founders: the resume button is right there, and I'm happy to go deep on any system above.

Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)