Chanakya Kilaru
Senior Product Engineer. I build software that ships responsibly and breaks gracefully.
Five years building products from zero to one. Currently a senior engineer at Snaptrude.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
I build the systems that make complex products feel fast, resilient, and alive.
Senior Software Engineer, Snaptrude
Software Engineer, Womp
Software Engineer, Interlay
Writing
Build notes, design decisions, and lessons from 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