Chaitanya Kasaraneni

I'm a data engineer at Egen with 5+ years of experience designing ETL pipelines and cloud-based data systems, and a researcher in clinical AI and graph neural networks. Based in the Greater Chicago area. My day-to-day is mostly Python on Google Cloud (with some AWS), and a lot of thinking about data contracts and reproducible ML pipelines.

I have a master's in Computer Engineering from San Jose State University. I work across data engineering, ML deployment, and cloud architecture, and have collaborated with scientific and medical teams on systems that process structured and unstructured clinical and genomic data at scale.

In 2026, I co-authored and presented research at IEEE ICHI 2026 (Session 16) on an AI-driven early-warning system for predicting multi-organ deterioration in ICU patients. The system uses temporal deep learning with cross-organ attention to flag clinical deterioration a median of 6.2 hours before conventional detection, across five organ systems.

Outside of industry work I maintain open-source Python packages (cloudfit, a cloud-agnostic machine type recommender for batch workloads; clinops, a clinical ML pipeline toolkit; and samplesheet-parser, an Illumina SampleSheet parser), write about data engineering and ML, and publish research. Recent work covers clinical AI for critical care, graph neural networks for drug repurposing, and multi-modal medical image fusion.

Experience

Where I've been

  1. Apr 2024 to Present

    Software Engineer, Data

    Egen · Cloud-based bioinformatics applications, ETL optimization. Streamlined a lab workflow that cut turn-around time by 25%.

  2. Oct 2022 to Apr 2024

    Senior Associate Engineer, Data

    Egen · Orchestrated ETL pipelines across cloud data stores. Revamped partner onboarding and automated data pipelines, reducing manual workload by 20%.

  3. Aug 2021 to Oct 2022

    Associate Software Engineer, Data

    Egen · ETL pipelines for structured and unstructured data, cloud data store delivery for downstream analytics.

  4. May 2021 to Jul 2021

    Data Science Intern

    Predmatic AI · Built SKU baseline forecasting, integrated Explainable AI (EBM) into the forecasting workflow, cut forecast error by 10%.

  5. Mar 2020 to Apr 2021

    Graduate Research Assistant

    San Jose State University · Research on the influence of online social circles on recommendation algorithms. Web-scraping pipeline for social media data enrichment.

  6. Aug 2017 to Jun 2018

    University Innovation Fellow

    Stanford University d.school program (KL University cohort) · One of a small group nominated by the Center for Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship. Led peer-mentoring and design-thinking initiatives.

  7. Aug 2018 to Dec 2020

    MS, Computer Engineering

    San Jose State University

  8. Jul 2014 to May 2018

    BTech, Computer Science & Engineering

    Koneru Lakshmaiah University

Skills

What I work with

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • SQL
  • Bash
  • GCP
  • BigQuery
  • Cloud Storage
  • Pub/Sub
  • Cloud Run
  • Google Batch
  • AWS
  • ETL
  • Airflow
  • Spark
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • CI/CD
  • Git
  • Linux
  • PostgreSQL
  • REST APIs
  • FastAPI
  • NestJS
  • Pydantic
  • Scikit-learn
  • PyTorch

Interests

What I like working on

  • Data Engineering
  • Open Source
  • Cloud Cost Optimization
  • Workflow Orchestration
  • Data Analytics
  • Recommendation Systems
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Model Deployment
  • Cloud Architecture
  • Bioinformatics

Certifications

What I'm certified in

  • GCP Professional Data Engineer
  • Generative AI Leader (Google Cloud)
  • Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree (Udacity)
  • Data Streaming Nanodegree (Udacity)
  • Consumer Neuroscience & Neuromarketing

Honors

Selected recognition

  • Davidson Student Scholar  ·  Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering, San Jose State University, 2020
  • Best Technocrat  ·  KL University, Class of 2018
  • Stanford University Innovation Fellow  ·  Nominated by the Center for Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship, 2017
  • UC Berkeley Open Innovation Hackathon, India  ·  Winning team, 2017

Want to collaborate or have me speak?

Open to research collaboration, speaking invitations, and conversations about clinical AI, data engineering, and cloud infrastructure. Drop me a line and I will get back to you within a couple of days.