Chanakya Kilaru
Senior Product Engineer. I build software that ships fast and breaks clean.
Five years building products from zero to one. Currently at Snaptrude — open to new opportunities.Selected work
Snaptrude
At Snaptrude I worked across the stack, from the AI generation engine to the infrastructure handling enterprise workloads. The through-line was making complex systems invisible to the people using them.
Womp 3D
A browser-based 3D modeling platform. I was a software engineer at Womp, building the frontend systems that took the product from a small user base to 150,000 users.
Interlay
A DeFi protocol bridging Bitcoin to Polkadot. I built the design system, component library, and wallet transaction flows from the ground up for a small early-stage team.Experience
Full stack, full ownership. That's been consistent across all three.
Senior Software Engineer, Snaptrude
Software Engineer, Womp
Software Engineer, Interlay
Writing
The thinking behind the shipping.
Orchestrating Long-Running AI WorkflowsHow we went from a monolithic AI agent that took 30 minutes and couldn't be interrupted, to a modular workflow engine with real-time streaming, mid-generation changes, and session resilience.
April 28, 2026
Building Workload-Aware Infrastructure at SnaptrudeHow we handled horizontal scaling for traffic-driven services and proactive vertical scaling for enterprise customers importing heavy projects from Revit and SketchUp.
April 22, 2026
Rethinking the 3D Scene as a Data StructureHow building a multi-proposal feature for architects turned a UI feature into a graph problem — and what it taught me about GPU memory, state diffing, and systems design.
April 10, 2026
Scaling a React Frontend to 150k UsersThree things that mattered most when scaling Womp's frontend — component architecture built with designers, virtualizing heavy lists, and getting event listeners under control.
April 1, 2026