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Chaitanya Pinapaka

Chaitanya Pinapaka

Software Engineer at Amazon, Seattle

I’m a software engineer at Amazon working in Supply Chain Optimization Technologies. Previously, I interned at Tesla on the Supply Chain Automation team.

I hold a B.Tech. in Computer Science from India and an M.S. in Computer Science from University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Why this blog

I started this blog to think in public.

Writers like Paul Graham, Marc Brooker, and Murat Demirbas inspired me — people who use writing as a tool for reasoning. I’ve found that writing clarifies thinking. Having a public place to put ideas forces me to confront what I actually understand versus what I only think I understand.

I write about software systems, emerging technologies, consumer products, and product ideas.

Outside of work, I build apps, experiment with hardware (Raspberry Pis, Dell server for self-hosting), and explore new tools. This blog is one of those projects — built with Astro, deployed on Amazon Web Services using AWS CDK, and powered by Go lambdas.