Nitin Chavan

About

I've built backend systems at early-stage companies — a ChatOps product that pivoted, an AI cargo forecasting platform, and incident management infrastructure. What those different domains taught me: the engineering only matters when it ships something people actually use.

In 2022, the Zenduty founders called me back to lead engineering through the company's next chapter — eventually to its acquisition by Xurrent. I run small, high-trust teams that own their work end to end. Good culture, I've found, is mostly built outside of engineering: in how people treat each other, whether they're growing, and whether they genuinely want to be there.

What I work on

Engineering leadership Growing teams through early-stage to acquisition — hiring, levelling, culture, and the structures that let engineers do their best work.
Product & delivery Bridging engineering and product: roadmaps, prioritisation, and keeping velocity without burning down quality or the team.
Incident management & reliability Designing systems where failure is expected and recovery is fast — on-call workflows, alerting, and the infrastructure behind them.
Backend systems & architecture Distributed systems, task queues, Kubernetes, and the kind of backend decisions that are hard to undo later.