Karthik Krishna

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India26 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Proven track record in leading engineering transformations.
Expertise in building scalable platforms and innovative solutions.
Strong leadership skills with a focus on team development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with strong leadership in engineering and product development.

Contact

ittiar@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Start-up LeadershipCloud ComputingAiPlatform EngineeringData EngineeringProject Management

Other Skills

AWSAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaAutomationBig Data AnalyticsCXODistributed SystemsEnterprise IntegrationExecutive CoachingHadoopIPIVRIntegrationInternet Protocol (IP)

About

An outcome oriented engineering leader, adept at building high performing organisations. * Demonstrated capability in managing scale, platform ownership and In-product Innovation. * Demonstrated success in solving complex & ambiguous product & customer problems. * Exhibited strategic thinking, Planning and leadership for Large Products. * People leadership as a natural trait; Can up-level and transform teams, inherited or from scratch.

Experience

26 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

2 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Stealth ai startup

Co-Founder

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Co-founder of a stealth-mode tech startup focused on AI-powered automation and intelligent workflow solutions.
Driving innovation at the intersection of FinTech, document intelligence, and enterprise integration.
Building scalable platforms with deep focus on architecture, data validation, and operational efficiency.
Tech-first approach with hands-on leadership across cloud, APIs, and AI product engineering.

Start-up LeadershipStart-up VenturesCloud Computing

Refyne india

VP and Head of Engineering

May 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Refyne is a B2B2C orchestration platform the enables EWA (Earned Wage Access) capability for employees of large enterprises. The product encompasses multiple domains - Enterprise Integration, lending/banking along with payroll/attendance management systems to provide rich offerings to the users.

Intuit

2 roles

Group Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2015 – May 2022 · 7 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Leading transformations in Platform and Data Engineering in the domain of Identity & Access management.
Directed a platform simplification initiative for Customer Identity & Profile data
Conceptualised and managed the transformation of a large monolith app to microservice arch on distributed systems
Led eCommerce Portal www.intuitmarket.com AWS migration by decomp and refactoring
Led Integrations for the Intuit India Startup Ecosystem program

Project ManagementPlatform EngineeringData Engineering

Senior Engineering Manager

Mar 2010 – Dec 2014 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Project Management

Sylantro systems

Senior Manager

Jun 2008 – Mar 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

A Techno-Managerial role in owning up the entire quality of the enterprise Sylantro IP PBX system, a Java based App Server platform with a multitude end user features, the most popular being the 'Third Party Call Control'.
A nearly 2 year stint here, where I got an opportunity to bring stability in the product, run the business, implement new processes and high quality deliverables to enterprise mobile service providers.

Project Management

Huawei

Senior Project Leader

Jan 2004 – May 2008 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Technical Leader for Voice Protocol Component Team. Focused on Framework development and White-box testing of Protocol Stacks. Extensively worked on SIP Protocol and VXML Stack Implementations.
Part of the R&D team to implement RFCs and Drafts of new and existing telecom protocols. While today, the major part of voice communication is over SIP (RFC 2543/3261) and VXML (W3C spec), I was really glad to be part of these stack development during the early 2000's.

L&t infotech

Software Engineer

Feb 2003 – Dec 2003 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

J2EE Developer. One of the most challenging initiatives of my career, with a 6 member team, where we developed the Telecom Application Server layer in a record span of 6 months. I was involved in developing the Web Services (using SOAP/WSDL) and Application Layer. The PARLAY specification implementation over JBoss was one of its kind that went live in Prod to integrate POTS, Mobile & IP networks.

Trueblue technologies

Software Engineer

Jan 1999 – Jan 2003 · 4 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

Startup and was among the first four employees building SaaS solutions for telecom operators and enterprises. Built SMS based solutions, IP Telephony, UMS and WAP offerings. I started my career here as Core Java Developer coding Servlets on JBoss platform and all products we developed were 1.0. Great learning experience and I still cherish my time with TBT.
Had a first stand experience on distributed event driven architecture (EDA) with Tibco rendezvous bus, building an IMPP (Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol) solution on a UMS (Unified Messaging Service) platform. Researched on Message Bus architecture and the various options available during that period to establish scale.