Karthick Ramachandran
Lead Software Engineer · Chennai, India
karthik.28696@gmail.comI'm a software engineer who thrives on building scalable, high-impact products using cutting-edge technologies. From distributed systems to cloud-native architectures, I love diving into diverse tech stacks and tackling complex challenges head-on.
When I'm not shipping code, you'll find me blogging, exploring open source, and geeking out over the latest tools shaping the future of engineering.
Experience
Working in the Financial Services Organization.
Worked as part of Engineering team in the Customer Fulfillment Division. Worked on Inventory Management team.
Part of the payments team that builds and integrates with various payment gateways as well as other micro-services to enable customers to buy products from the Samsung e-commerce site.
Worked on Zoho Mail framework team.
- Reduced storage overhead by 50% in Hadoop clusters using Erasure coding.
- Increased throughput by 50% for sequence messages in internal messaging queue system.
- Implemented Ratio-Based partition technique for production server load customization.
- Created internal tools for runtime configuration of HBase clusters & messaging queues.
Education
Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University
Undergraduate in Information Technology
Skills
Languages, Frameworks & Tools
Workflow & Industry Knowledge
Interests
Football
I enjoy my time being outdoors and love watching Football. Proud Chelsea FC supporter!
Side Projects
I like to create websites for fun, trying out new technologies and tools to stay up to date with current tech.
Learning
I love watching TED talks and reading the tech blogs of various tech companies to keep growing.