Chaitanya Bhandari is a Distributed Systems Engineer with experience at TigerBeetle and a background in academia as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and Research Scholar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Chaitanya has completed a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Computer Science (Thesis Track) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, expected to graduate in May 2024.