About

Karthick Selvaraj is a dynamic and passionate software professional with over 10 years of experience in software system development. He is currently a Staff Engineer at VMware, where he has solid experience in the design and development of large-scale distributed software systems and low-latency services. Karthick has extensive coding skills in C++ and Java and has experience working closely with and contributing to open-source projects. Karthick is also experienced in driving and executing innovation projects and has strong domain knowledge in Grid and Cloud Computing, Big Data, and Internet scale serving platforms. He is familiar with scrum and agile methodologies and is passionate about evangelizing, mentoring, and practicing product and process excellence. Karthick has delivered complex projects in collaboration with researchers and geographically distributed teams. Prior to joining VMware, Karthick worked at Yahoo as a Technical Lead, where he was responsible for managing projects like fetching service and document processing service of web crawler in Yahoo! web search involving engineering teams and research teams located in India and the US. He has experience in building and maintaining Internet scale Web fetching service and document processing service. Karthick has also worked on Apache Traffic Server integration with web search crawler to boost the performance of the crawling platform. He has experience in Grid Computing for processing petabytes of data on Hadoop Grid and Map-Reduce paradigm of computing. Karthick has also worked at CA Technologies as a Software Engineer, where he developed new features and feature enhancements without affecting the existing architecture of the product. He worked with software architects to determine the best course of action to improve software performance for addressing complex issues that may require re-design, re-engineering, or re-write of core components and internals. Karthick mentored and guided new team members to ramp them up faster in understanding the product architecture and the internals. Karthick holds a B.Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, and a PGP in Data Science from the International School of Engineering (INSOFE). His tech stack includes Web, Search, Big Data, Java, Senior Software Engineer, Research Scientist, Hadoop, Integration, Software Engineer, and QA. Karthick has 14.95 years of relevant experience.