About
Building systems, and leading the teams that build them.
Chaba LLC is the independent software consultancy of Darwin Wu, a Bay Area engineer.
That path runs from product engineering at New Relic, through DevOps and SRE roles at growing startups and at Cloudflare, to CTO of oVice in Japan and, most recently, tech lead and architect for Inngest's core systems and infrastructure teams. The hands-on work ranges from Kubernetes platforms and data center automation to distributed tracing; the leadership work, from hiring engineers to running teams in the US and Japan.
Background
- Inngest
- Tech lead and architect; software engineer
- oVice (Japan)
- CTO; VP of Engineering; advisor
- Cloudflare
- Site reliability engineer, infrastructure engineering
- Entelo
- Staff SRE; senior infrastructure engineer
- Cerego
- Head of DevOps; DevOps engineer
- New Relic
- Software engineer
Working style
Chaba engagements are direct, pragmatic, and grounded in the constraints teams actually have. The work favors clear tradeoffs, maintainable systems, and decisions that can survive contact with production.
Typical engagements mix technical review, planning, architecture, and hands-on implementation, with clear communication across product and engineering.
Where Chaba works
Chaba works with teams in the United States and Japan, in English or Japanese.
The name
Chaba comes from 茶葉, Japanese for tea leaves.