Chaitanya Bhandari is a Distributed Systems Engineer at TigerBeetle, where he spends his time diving into everything core database, jumping between consensus and the storage engine. Before TigerBeetle, he was at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, doing research in distributed storage systems and systems reliability. Earlier, he worked at Nutanix, where he hacked on the internal testing infrastructure to improve developer productivity. Outside of work, he loves tennis, coffee, and music, so feel free to reach out to grab coffee!