# Chaitanya Vootla — Staff Engineer

> Staff engineer. Mostly working on agents right now.

Most of my time goes into agent harnesses these days — the scaffolding around agents is where the interesting work is. Day job is clinical-trial software at Faeth Therapeutics, which keeps me honest about reliability. About ten years of full-stack before all this.

- **Site**: https://vootlachaitanya.com
- **Email**: chaitanyavootla@proton.me
- **GitHub**: https://github.com/ChaitanyaVootla
- **LinkedIn**: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vootlachaitanya
- **Resume**: https://vootlachaitanya.com/Resume.pdf

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## Where my time goes

### Agent harnesses

Where I spend most of my time. Task contracts, tool boundaries, traces, evals — the scaffolding that turns a demo into something you can actually rely on. LangGraph is where I work.

### Clinical trials

Day job at Faeth. Trial-related apps where getting it wrong has real consequences, so the work skews toward correctness, audit trails, and not breaking things in prod.

### Full-stack

Ten years of product work before this — frontends, services, the cloud bits, the database underneath. Useful baseline for the agent stuff.

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## Beliefs about the work

- **The work is the scaffolding.** The interesting bit isn't the model call. It's the contracts, the tools, the traces, and the evals around it.
- **Read the runs, not the demo.** Looks-good-once doesn't ship. If I can't see the runs over time, I can't tell you anything.
- **Domain first.** Agents work best when they sit on top of a real model of the domain. The LLM is the thin layer.
- **Same boring discipline.** Observability, rollbacks, audit trails. The stuff that turns "cool demo" into "in production".

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## Career

### Faeth Therapeutics — Staff Engineer (current)

Clinical-trial related applications and the internal tools around them. Healthcare-grade reliability, so a lot of the work is making sure the boring parts are actually boring.

### JFrog — Senior Software Engineer (Apr 2019 – 2024)

Artifactory and the CI/CD product line. Big Vue apps on the front, services and cloud orchestration on the back.

### Shippable — Software Engineer (Jun 2016 – Apr 2019)

Built parts of a CI/CD product at startup speed. Got acquired by JFrog mid-way through, which is how I ended up there.

### NIT Agartala — B.Tech, CSE (2012 – 2016)

Where I picked up the fundamentals before going full-time on product work.

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## Projects

### TheMovieBrowser.com

Status: still adding things. My evenings project. Movie and TV discovery with ratings from multiple sources, watch links, watchlists, custom filters, and recommendations backed by embeddings + vector search.

- Site: https://themoviebrowser.com
- Source: https://github.com/ChaitanyaVootla/movie-browser
- Capabilities: ratings + watch links, custom discovery filters, watchlists and episode tracking, OpenAI embeddings + Chroma recommendations.
- Stack: Nuxt, TypeScript, Node, MongoDB, AWS Lambda, OpenAI, Chroma.

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## Skills

### Agent stack

LangGraph · OpenAI / Anthropic APIs · tool contracts · eval harnesses · embeddings and vector search · observability and traces.

### Product platforms

React · Next.js · TypeScript · design systems · data-heavy UI · clinical workflow UI.

### Systems

Node.js · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Kubernetes · Docker · AWS Lambda · CI/CD orchestration.

### Reliability

Observability · audit trails · workflow safety · operational tooling · release discipline.

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## Contact

- Email: chaitanyavootla@proton.me
- GitHub: https://github.com/ChaitanyaVootla
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vootlachaitanya