Karthik Ramgopal

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Atherton, California, United States16 yrs 6 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Distinguished Engineer leading a team of 5200 engineers.
Expert in large scale backend and distributed systems.
Influential in shaping LinkedIn's technical vision.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a focus on distributed systems and technical leadership.

Contact

applefreakpeeps@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipDistributed SystemsSoftware DesignIos DevelopmentAndroidAlgorithms

Other Skills

AI agentsCC++Design PatternsGo (Programming Language)GradleGraphQLJavaJavaScriptKotlinLarge Language Models (LLM)LinuxMachine LearningManagementMySQL

About

I'm a Distinguished Engineer and the uber tech lead of the product engineering team at LinkedIn. Our team has ~5200 engineers and is responsible for building and operating all our member and customer facing products. I have 16+ years of experience in software development, design, and architecture, spanning product and infrastructure teams.I'm a full stack engineer, with core competencies spanning across large scale backend/distributed systems, mobile and web applications, AI agents and low-level application/AI infrastructure, which I use to build consumer/enterprise products. I steer many internal design and review committees, where I influence the technical vision and strategy of LinkedIn. I'm also a hands on builder, and directly contribute to code and design in specific projects I'm involved in.

Experience

6 roles

Distinguished Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Full stack Tech Lead/Software Architect of the Product Engineering team.
Notable projects I am working on:
AI infrastructure and agent/recsys products
Next Generation Tech stack at LinkedIn
gRPC migration
Infrastructure driven client side tracking
Server Driven UI
AI for accelerating internal productivity

AlgorithmsPythonJavagRPCDesign PatternsSoftware Design+3

Principal Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2019 – Aug 2023 · 4 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Full stack Tech Lead/Software Architect in the Product Engineering team
Member of Technical Leadership Group (TLG) and several other internal design/review committees.
Notable projects I worked on:
LinkedIn Events, including live events and Audio rooms
LinkedIn video sharing
LinkedIn stories
LinkedIn PoP to Azure FrontDoor migration
GraphQL adoption and Inter-op with Rest.li
Migrating all client-server and service-service RPCs from JSON to Protocol Buffers
Programming language support model at LinkedIn
Self service operability dashboards
Infrastructure driven client side tracking
LinkedIn Generative AI copilot

iOS developmentAlgorithmsSwiftGo (Programming Language)Objective-CC+15

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2016 – May 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Tech Lead/Software Architect in the Consumer Engineering team.
Microsoft integration with various product/infra tracks.
Member of Technical Leadership Group (TLG) and several other internal design/review committees.

iOS developmentAlgorithmsSwiftObjective-CCAndroid+10

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2015 – May 2016 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Mobile Infrastructure

iOS developmentAlgorithmsSwiftObjective-CCAndroid+5

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2015 – Jul 2015 · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Working on the next generation LinkedIn Pulse apps.
Mobile performance across LinkedIn apps.
Mobile libraries used by all LinkedIn apps. Wrote from scratch and/or enhanced libraries for authentication, performance tracking, crash reporting, image loading, user behavior tracking, caching.
REST.li codegen for Android

iOS developmentAlgorithmsSwiftObjective-CCAndroid+5

Mobile Software Engineer

Oct 2014 – Feb 2015 · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Development of the LinkedIn Pulse apps for iOS and Android.

iOS developmentSwiftObjective-CCAndroidPython+4

Maas360 by fiberlink, an ibm company

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Jun 2012 – Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Development of the MaaS360 iOS/Android MDM agent.
App wrapping for enterprise iOS/Android apps.
App SDK for 3rd party iOS/Android app developers.
App usage analytics.
Exchange ActiveSync client with enterprise grade encryption and security for iOS
Containerization of docs, e-mails, calendar, contacts and apps.
Data-at-Rest and Data-In-motion encryption.
Data Leak Prevention.
Android Secure Browser.
VFS for Android with transparent encryption
Remote control for Samsung SAFE devices
Document management and sync suite for Android with enterprise grade encryption

AlgorithmsObjective-CCAndroidPythonJava+3

D. e. shaw india software private limited

2 roles

Senior Member, Technical

Promoted

Jan 2011 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Proprietary high performance trading system design and development.
Institutional Brokerage system design and development.
Broker Algos (VWAP/TWAP/Iceberg/Liquidity seeker).
Automated Crossing Engine design.

AlgorithmsObjective-CCAndroidPythonJava+3

Member, Technical

Aug 2009 – Dec 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Development and enhancement of an automated high speed statistical arbitrage based trading system, trading in a variety of financial instruments, and managing private equity across diverse markets around the world.

AlgorithmsPythonJavaDesign PatternsPerlC+++1