About

Karunakar Gautam is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer at Google with over 8 years of relevant experience. His LinkedIn headline reads "Make Useful Things," which is a testament to his passion for creating impactful solutions. Currently, he is working on Megamind, an ML-based fraud defense system for Google Maps. Karunakar has previously worked at Adobe, where he held the position of Computer Scientist 2 and Computer Scientist 1. During his tenure at Adobe, he was responsible for building a high-throughput multi-cloud platform for training and hosting ML services. He also worked on several multimodal image, audio/video, and language models and patented a "Deep Learning System for Audio Recommendations Based on Video Content." Karunakar was also instrumental in developing a model download service that could serve one million model downloads per minute. Karunakar is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, where he completed his Master of Technology in Computer Science (Machine Learning) in 2014. He also holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Delhi Technological University and completed his 12th grade from Somerville School. Karunakar completed his high school education from Sarla Chopra D.A.V. Public School. Karunakar's tech stack includes software engineering, ML, language models, research science, deep learning, Redis, and Java. He is a go-to person for intern mentorship and generating new ideas. Karunakar's passion for creating useful things and his extensive experience in the field of software engineering and ML make him a valuable asset to any team.