Shishir Chandra

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Shishir Chandra is an experienced engineering leader currently serving at Google since December 2024 and contributing to The Apache Software Foundation since January 2019, focusing on ElasticSearch and Lucene. Previously, Shishir held multiple leadership roles at Target from February 2020 to December 2024, including Director of Technology for Distributed Platform Engineering, where efforts centered on building and scaling a smart distributed data processing platform with low latency and high throughput. Other positions included Director of Engineering and Senior Engineering Manager for Data Platforms, emphasizing stable and scalable distributed systems for complex inventory management. Additionally, Shishir served as a Technical Mentor at Scaler Academy from January 2020 to November 2022, guiding engineers in system design, while also working as a Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe from July 2019 to February 2020 in multicloud applications and platforms.

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