About

Karan Saluja is a talented software engineer with over 6 years of relevant experience in the industry. He is currently working as a Backend Engineer at ShareChat, where he is responsible for building and maintaining software systems that power the platform. Karan has a deep understanding of software engineering principles and has worked extensively on ML problems in the past. Karan has a passion for building software systems that can scale exponentially. He is interested in being a part of the x -> 100x journey for software systems, and he has the skills and experience to make it happen. Karan has a proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions that meet the needs of his clients and customers. Karan has worked at Walmart in the past, where he was a Software Engineer and a Machine Learning Engineer. As a Software Engineer, he was responsible for building the backend for Cost&Negotiation services in the Merchant Technology team. He worked with a variety of technologies, including Java, Springboot, Clickhouse, MySQL, Druid, Kafka, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, Elastic Search, and Solr. As a Machine Learning Engineer, he was responsible for building intelligent solutions for the seller side business. He worked on technologies that span the entire ML product lifecycle, including backend (Java, Kafka, Clickhouse), frontend (React JS), and ML (Encoder Decoder, Transformer models for NLP). Karan has a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He also has a High School degree from BCM Arya Model Sr. Sec. School, Ludhiana, Punjab. Karan has a strong technical background and is proficient in a variety of technologies, including Software Engineering, Backend, ML, Kafka, Java, Kubernetes, MySQL, Elastic Search, Spring Boot, Search, NLP, Frontend, and ReactJS. Overall, Karan Saluja is a talented and experienced software engineer who is passionate about building software systems that can scale exponentially. He has a proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions and is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to grow and develop his skills.