Chaitanya Kanitkar

Chaitanya Kanitkar started their work experience in 2013 as a Co-Founder and Software Architect at Lakshya Group LLC, where they pitched products for seed funding, designed marketing plans, and developed web and mobile applications. They also had internships at Lloyd and Citi in 2013. In 2014, Chaitanya worked as an Undergraduate Student Researcher at Columbia University and as part of the Institutional Clients Group - Software Engineering team at Citi. From 2015 to 2017, Chaitanya worked as a Software Engineer at Index. They then joined Twitter in 2017 as a Software Engineer, and later moved to Facebook in 2019 as a Senior Software Engineer. Currently, Chaitanya is a Software Engineer at Hidden Road, starting in 2022.

Chaitanya Kanitkar completed their high school education at Novi High School from 2007 to 2011. Chaitanya then pursued a Bachelor's Degree in Operations Research/Computer Science at Columbia University, graduating in 2015. After that, they attended Stanford University, where they obtained a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Computer Science with a track in Artificial Intelligence, completing their studies in 2019.