Karthik Sampathkumar

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable systems on AWS.
Proven track record in reducing operational costs.
Strong leadership in mentoring and team development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in Fintech and Cloud Computing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentSystem ArchitectureBack-end Web Development

Other Skills

AWSAlgorithmsAnalytical SkillsCComputer ScienceCore JavaData StructuresGitJavaKotlinLinuxMachine LearningProgramming LanguagesPythonPython (Programming Language)

About

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology industry. Skilled in Kotlin, Java, Python, C and C++. Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor's and Master's degrees focussed in information technology from International Institute of Information Technology – Bangalore. Always curious to explore and adapt cutting edge technology to solve problems. Machine learning enthusiast. Strong proponent and practitioner of automation.

Experience

Amazon web services (aws)

Senior Software Development Engineer

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Amazon Q Business, Amazon Quick Suite- AI for Enterprises
Spearheaded the integration of the connector platform with 4+ AWS client services, creating a scalable multi client model and reducing onboarding time from 3+ months to just 1 month.
Engineered and scaled connector sync throughput—scaled concurrent sync capacity to XX thousands from hundreds (>15x) and enabled 25x more sync starts per second.
Designed and executed a comprehensive throttling/fairness strategy and IP range restrictions for the flagship Quick Suite launch, coordinating across 5+ teams to achieve the same.

Software DesignSoftware InfrastructureSoftware DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipSystem Architecture

Amazon

2 roles

Software Development Engineer III

Oct 2024 – Jan 2025 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Leading a multi-year initiative to migrate to an internal custodian system for handling sensitive data. Formulated the tech strategy for the same post diving deep and resolving ambiguity.

Software Development Engineer II

Oct 2020 – Sep 2024 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Amazon Payment Services (APS)
Led a team to build a multi-tenant capable merchant disbursement system on AWS, processing $XMM+ worth with zero missed transactions.
Designed and developed APS Live Controls System, screening XM transactions daily, preventing XXk compliance lapses with 99.999+% availability. Led a team of 4 SDEs to accomplish the same.
Created monitoring and resilience-framework libraries used across 17 services, saving 5 SDE months of effort.
Achieved 40% reduction in compute costs and 98% in workflow costs, saving $X00k annually on cloud infrastructure at APS level.
Mentored 3 Software Development Engineers (SDEs) to grow to next level, 3 interns with successful Full Time Employment (FTE) conversions.
Established coding guidelines reducing code review revisions by 20% and defects by 15%. Established tech document templates, used by SDE's to author 40+ documents.

Analytical SkillsComputer ScienceSoftware DesignBack-End Web DevelopmentKotlinJava+1

Cisco

3 roles

Software Engineer III

Promoted

May 2020 – Oct 2020 · 5 mos

Enterprise Switching BU.
Designed and implemented an object-oriented library to automate an array of routine developer tasks in Python3.
Leveraged the framework to automate a configurable (via YAML) diff patching, building and driver installation unit testing program for Catalyst 9k series of switches. Was awarded a Connected Recognition (internal award) for the same.
Implemented onboard data logging and file system features in C for the flagship Catalyst 9600 and 9500H enterprise switching platforms
Worked on hardening YANG models to ensure ease of programmability of Cisco networking equipment (tech used: YANG, Erlang).

Analytical SkillsComputer Science

Software Engineer II

May 2018 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

Enterprise Switching BU.

Computer Science

Software Engineer II

Aug 2017 – Apr 2018 · 8 mos

Service Provider Video Software Solutions (SPVSS) BU
Implemented features of a configurable streaming client framework and application for Android in Java.
Back-ported efficiently implemented components of the new application to the legacy application.

Computer Science

Furlenco

Intern

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Contributed to the development of an internal data analytics platform using Ruby on Rails.

Computer Science

Dataweave pvt. ltd.

Intern - Data Semantics

May 2015 – Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Developed a system to extract structured information from unstructured e-commerce data in Python.
Developed REST API support with JSON formatted replies to allow access to the system.

Computer Science