Lakshmi Karthikesan

VP of Engineering

Bangalore, Karnataka, India22 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

18+ years of experience in software development.
Expert in re-architecting systems for scalability and performance.
Strong leadership in building high-performing teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned technology leader specializing in SaaS and Fintech solutions.

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.NET FrameworkAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAzure Service FabricCC#C++CommunicationCross-functional Team LeadershipCustomer-focused ServiceData InfrastructureData StructuresDistributed SystemsEmbedded C++Embedded Systems

About

I am a technology enthusiast living in Bangalore, India. I’ve around 18+ years of total industry experience: 9+ years - Embedded Domain Software Development (Automotive, Locomotive and Digital TV) 3+ years - Financial Domain Software Development (Real-time Market Data) 4+ years - Re-architecting for Scalability (Microsoft Licensing & Dynamics 365 CRM product) I'm enthused and passionate about building/sustaining high performing/talented teams, who's completely invested in facilitating individual's career aspiration/growth. I consciously work towards setting up a positive collaborative environment for the team with different stakeholders wherein every participant feels comfortable to share diverse perspectives being respectful of each other, foster customer obsessed culture to provide a world class customer experience at all times, coach/guide team to own and lead product/components with pride, encourage team to think big/long term, mentor team to dive deep and earn trust of all the different stakeholders for a successful deliverable of the teams'/organization's business commitments to the end Customers.

Experience

22 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

2 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 10 mos

Current Experience

Microsoft

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Career break

Health and well-being

Jan 2024 – Aug 2024 · 7 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Paypal

Senior Software Engineering Manager at PayPal

Dec 2021 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Microsoft

3 roles

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

May 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

Leading a team of 9 full time employees and 5 vendors and responsible for people management and technical deliverables of the team. Currently working with the team on re-architecting the Infrastructure of a legacy product called Resource Scheduling Optimization (RSO) in Field Service Application of D365 CRM product to move it from a Single tenant Infrastructure to Multi-tenant architecture primarily for increasing user adoption and scalability, availability, reliability, performance requirements thereof.

Software Engineering Manager

Sep 2019 – May 2020 · 8 mos

Senior Software Engineer

May 2017 – May 2020 · 3 yrs

Intel security

Senior Technical Lead

Sep 2016 – May 2017 · 8 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Architect, Team Lead of McAfee LiveSafe™ and McAfee Total Protection software development (McAfee Consumer Business)
Actively worked as Team Lead on the Software Architecture, Design and end to end development of certain components of McAfee LiveSafe and McAfee Total Protection AV products.
The project was intended to re-architect the above legacy products ensuring decoupling of modules like McAfee Anti-Spam, McAfee light weight AV engine, VSO core, McAfee parental protection, home devices trusted security etc.

Lore sofware solutions private limited

Senior Team Lead

Oct 2013 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Real-Time Market Data Product Development (For Investment Technology Group Inc. [NYSE:ITG]):
Worked extensively on Fixed-income, Bonds and FOREX Asset classes. Responsible for design and development of various Feed Handlers to capture data from exchanges viz. NYSE, NASDAQ, KBP, FXALL, Reuters etc.
Worked on the Architecture, Design and Development of Market Data Feed's Entitlement validation intended to ensure feed data is routed to only authorized clients and device a process/protocol in mutual agreement with the exchange to accrue cost directed towards consumed data rather than for the entire feed otherwise expected to be consumed.

Hcl technologies

Senior Technical Lead

Sep 2010 – Sep 2013 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Design and Development of various software functionalities for Digital TV (DTV)
Software Feature management in DTV domain. Identified Client Point of Contact for any queries, clarifications, delivering new requirements/bug fixes on the feature. Responsible for taking complete ownership of managing, coordinating design/execution, review with all stakeholders and deliver the requirements/specifications of the feature in-line with Customer expectations and commitments across Application, middleware and HAL teams