About

Karan K. is a highly experienced Backend Engineer currently working at Apple, where he designs and develops high-performance backend services, advanced analytics solutions, and data pipelines for the company's Wireless Technologies. With over 18 years of relevant experience, Karan is well-versed in building high-performance and scalable services for storing data, providing real-time analytics, and querying capability on large-scale data sets using Java, Spring Webflux, Python, Pandas, Redis, Apache Spark, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, and other tools and technologies. Prior to joining Apple, Karan worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Atos zData, where he developed APIs, ETL pipelines, and Spark analytics jobs for CoreLogic, a real estate analytics company. He also designed and implemented data pipelines for processing criminal offender data for all the counties, led an offshore team in Mexico, and mentored junior developers to boost code quality and ramp up team performance. Karan's previous experience also includes working as a Lead Software Engineer at Advertise.com, an online and mobile ad network that brings publishers and advertisers together. He worked on different products for serving ads on the publisher's site, contextual, social, and inline ads, and also developed the underlying backend engine that delivers ads based on keyword search, tracks clicks, prevents click fraud, processes clicks for monetization and reporting. Karan holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Pune University and AIT (Army Institute of Technology) and has expertise in various tools and technologies such as Spark, Java, Spring, Kafka, Microservices, Redis, Cassandra, AWS, Search, Software Engineer, ML, MySQL, Elastic Search, CI/CD, Big Data, Python, Spring Boot, ETL, Integration, Web, Puppet, NoSQL, and Mobile. He is a dedicated professional with a passion for developing innovative solutions and continuously improving his skills to stay ahead in the rapidly evolving technology landscape.