About

Karthik Prakash is a highly skilled Software Engineer with over 6 years of experience in the field. He currently works at Meta as a Software Engineer, Machine Learning, where he has developed an End to End Apache Spark based Data Processing Platform for Machine Learning to calculate and serve data features for Model Training and hosting in real-time. His platform also boasts the ability to calculate features that require stateful aggregations. In addition, he has developed Graph Persistence as a Service using DSE graph and a Data Modeling Framework and tools. Prior to his current position, Karthik worked as a Staff ML Engineer at Intuit where he developed an end-to-end self-served anomaly detection as a service enabling users to find anomalies in large amounts of data with dimensions using Apache PySpark, Pandas, Scikit, FBProphet leveraging AWS Serverless technologies and EMRs. He also developed a reusable framework to generalize unsupervised anomaly detection techniques to implement an ensemble of various techniques like Robust PCA, SGESD, Isolation Forest, random forest, ARIMAX, and other statistics-based techniques. Karthik also worked as a Software Engineer 3, Platforms and Infrastructure at PayPal, where he was part of the Application Data Services team providing critical caching features. He worked on a new project to provide Caching as a Service to all customers inside PayPal, developed a capacity recommendation tool based on statistical analysis of usage data, and developed a fault injection framework. Karthik's educational background includes a Master's degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University, a Non-Degree Option in Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University, and a Bachelor's degree in Information Science and Engineering from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University. Karthik's technical skills include Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Spark, AWS, Random Forest, Scikit, Pandas, test, infra, Java, and Cassandra. He is constantly learning and increasing his skills to build a challenging and innovative career for himself.