About

Karthik Natarajan is a highly skilled consultant with over 12 years of experience in architecture, design, process, and product development. He is an architect and a designer who has trained in Pune, Pondicherry, and Dessau-Roßlau in Germany. Karthik has successfully completed projects for brands and institutions in India, Germany, Scotland, Singapore, Brazil, and Antarctica. Karthik has also been involved with various startups at various stages of their business to ensure a better design experience. He created the first version of the LetsIntern app, and he is also a stakeholder in a travel company that focuses on premium experiences in India and overseas. Since late 2015, he has been consulting for a food tech startup, co-founding India's only pure fruit, no additives Low GI/GL Fruit Spreads Brand, and working at Hasiru Dala on their Housing Pilot Project. Currently, Karthik is working as a Scaling and Sustainability Consultant at Thumbi Labs, a defunct 24x7 tech-enabled app-driven dispatch rider aggregator for peer-2-peer point-2-point intra-city delivery service. He is responsible for the scalability of processes and design, and his skills and experiences are best suited in places with a strong design focus, that require rapid growth and with frequent change cycles. Karthik's past experience includes co-founding and product development at Svitch, a defunct 24x7 tech-enabled app-driven dispatch rider aggregator for peer-2-peer point-2-point intra-city delivery service, and designer and co-founder at Portmanteau, a travel accessories company developing its first carry-on sized backpacks. Karthik has a post-graduate diploma in architecture, planning, design, theory from The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, and a Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) from M.M.C.A and Savitribai Phule Pune University. He has a wide range of technical skills, including Blockchain, Javascript, ML, SQL, Azure, Solidity, NodeJS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Spring, Ansible, Scikit, Ethereum, AWS, Smart Contract, Software Engineer, Terraform, Spark, CI/CD, test, MongoDB, Microservices, DevOps, UI, Web, Infra, Python, and Java. Overall, Karthik has 14.03 years of relevant experience and is an expert consultant in recycling and sustainable housing. He is passionate