10 Chime engineering leaders
Nirmal Selvaraj, Vice President of Engineering, Growth, heads this list of Chime engineering leaders, which also includes senior directors and directors of engineering for growth, ChimeCore and data engineering who hold their roles today. A reader can learn how engineering leaders work at Chime from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Amit Kumar
LinkedInExperience: Director of Data Engineering · Chime
Amit Kumar has been Director of Data Engineering at Chime since January 2025, with a headline that describes the role as Director, Data & ML Platform. Amit Kumar was Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Snowflake from 2021 to 2025 and Director of Engineering, Einstein Discovery at Salesforce from 2011 to 2021.
Brandon L. Golm
LinkedInExperience: Former VP of Engineering · Chime
Brandon L. Golm is a former VP of Engineering at Chime, a role held from March 2018 to January 2022. Brandon L. Golm was CTO at Caribou Financial, Inc. from 2023 to 2024, VP of Engineering at BigCommerce from 2014 to 2017 and Senior Director of Engineering at Eventbrite from 2010 to 2014.
Constantin Zhorov
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Chime
Constantin Zhorov has been Director of Engineering at Chime since August 2026, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, and also lists a Senior Engineering Manager row at Chime open since May 2022. Constantin Zhorov was Engineering Manager at Chime from 2020 to 2022 and Engineering Manager at TriNet Zenefits from 2018 to 2020.
Darragh Whelan
LinkedInExperience: Former Vice President of Engineering · Chime
Darragh Whelan is a former Vice President of Engineering at Chime, a role held from April 2022 to February 2025 leading a horizontal organization of 200 engineers covering risk, identity, customer support, disputes, data science and data engineering. Darragh Whelan has been Senior Vice President of Engineering at Mastercard since February 2025.
Karthik Sethuramasubbu
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · Chime
Karthik Sethuramasubbu has been Senior Director of Engineering at Chime since February 2026 and was Director of Engineering at Chime from 2022 to 2026 and Senior Engineering Manager, Growth there from 2021 to 2022. Karthik Sethuramasubbu also held the role Engineering Leader @ Uber Rewards and Subscriptions at Uber from 2015 to 2020.
Nirmal Selvaraj
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering, Growth · Chime
Nirmal Selvaraj has been Vice President of Engineering, Growth at Chime since March 2026 and was Senior Director of Engineering, Growth at Chime from 2025 to 2026. Nirmal Selvaraj was also Sr. Director of Engineering, Growth at Grammarly from 2022 to 2025 and Director of Engineering, Growth at Instacart from 2021 to 2022.
Peter B.
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · Chime
Peter B. has been Senior Director of Engineering at Chime since April 2019, a role the profile places at director level in engineering. Peter B. was Head of Engineering at Scratch from 2018 to 2019 and Director of Engineering at Heroku from 2014 to 2018.
Praveen Jain
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering, ChimeCore · Chime
Praveen Jain has been Senior Director of Engineering, ChimeCore at Chime since August 2025 and says they lead the engineering and operations org behind ChimeCore. Praveen Jain was Director of Engineering, ChimeCore (Financial Platform) at Chime from 2022 to 2025 and Sr. Manager, Payments platform and Solutions at Lyft from 2018 to 2020.
Scott Sebelius
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Chime
Scott Sebelius has been Director of Engineering at Chime since February 2025, based in Aliso Viejo, California, and was Senior Engineering Manager at Chime from 2022 to 2025. Scott Sebelius was Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Twitter from 2021 to 2022.
Stefanie Lynch
LinkedInExperience: Engineering Director · Chime
Stefanie Lynch has been Engineering Director at Chime since March 2024 and was Senior Engineering Manager at Chime from 2020 to 2024. Stefanie Lynch was Director Of Engineering at OneLogin by One Identity in 2020 and Engineering Manager there from 2019 to 2020.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01What did you focus on first when you took on your current engineering leadership role?
- 02How have you organized the engineering groups you lead, and what would you change next time?
- 03Which engineering practices have held up best as the groups you lead have grown, and which did you drop?
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