About

Karthik Raj is an experienced Software Engineer with over a decade of experience in the computer software industry. Currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Chime, he is skilled in Amazon Web Services (AWS), microservices, RESTful APIs, and large scale data-intensive applications. Karthik has a proven track record of designing and implementing scalable data pipelines for extraction, ingestion, and transformation of customer data. He has also automated and implemented procedures for continuous deployment of data pipeline components, improving cross-functional collaboration and productivity by setting up Engineering guilds. Before joining Chime, Karthik worked as a Software Engineer at Datavant where he researched, designed, and implemented scalable data pipelines. He also rapidly prototyped new data processing capabilities of various third-party services to confirm integration feasibility into existing systems. Karthik improved cross-functional collaboration and productivity by setting up Engineering guilds. Karthik has also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Twilio, where he developed Scala REST applications and pipeline for data stores. He also built data pipelines on Kafka/Spark to move data in real-time at scale. Karthik holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Anna University. He is proficient in various technologies, including AWS, microservices, web, CI/CD, integration, Spark, Scala, and Kafka. With over 10.78 years of relevant experience, Karthik is a highly skilled software engineer with a passion for designing and implementing scalable data pipelines and improving cross-functional collaboration and productivity.