Karthik Saligrama

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States15 yrs 6 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Generative AI and Deep Learning.
  • Led multiple successful projects at AWS and Microsoft.
  • Strong background in cloud computing and architecture.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a focus on cloud architecture and machine learning.

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Skills

Core Skills

Generative AiDeep LearningCloud ComputingMachine LearningArchitecture

Other Skills

Architectural designCollaborationMentorshipData processingMulti-tenant architectureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data crawlingIndexingUser experience designQuery suggestion designGraphQLAuthentication mechanismsDistributed SystemsSystem ArchitectureWeb Services

Experience

15 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
7 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
4 mos
Current Experience

Microsoft

Principal Engineer

Dec 2025Present · 4 mos · Greater Seattle Area · Hybrid

Amazon web services (aws)

5 roles

Principal Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2024Dec 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Founding engineer Amazon Q Business, lead from idea, to proof of concept to a GA solution
  • Led the architectural design
  • Owned critical components including accuracy, security, data crawling/indexing, and retrieval systems.
  • Collaborated with over 10 teams to align product roadmaps and reliability goals, ensuring customer satisfaction.
  • Mentored engineers and leaders, fostering career development through hands-on guidance and talent reviews.
Generative AIDeep Learning

Senior Software Development Engineer

Feb 2023Oct 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Spearheaded the scaling of data ingestion, processing hundreds of millions of documents per index.
  • Developed a multi-tenant architecture and authentication systems and no code experience.
  • Streamlined operations across 10+ subteams by identifying root causes and implementing process improvements.

Senior Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2020Sep 2024 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Founding member for Amazon Kendra
  • Lead for Amazon Kendra Content Engineer team. Content Engineer team is responsible for data, crawling & indexing for search.
  • Lead for Amazon Kendra Search Experience team. Search Experience team is responsible for end user experience when interacting with Amazon Kendra.
  • Designed and developed functional components in Amazon Kendra. E.g., Worked on operationally scaling document indexing pipeline to process millions of documents with a multi-tenant architecture, launch User Token feature during AWS re:invent 2020.
  • Worked on reducing the operational load of the team.
  • Peer reviewed design/code for sister teams within Amazon Kendra.
  • Participate in planning meetings and contribute to planning document for Amazon Kendra.
  • Participate in mentoring/hiring of new team members.
Machine LearningArchitectureGenerative AIDeep LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Software Development Engineer

Apr 2019Oct 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Launched Amazon Kendra, a is a highly accurate and easy to use enterprise search service that’s powered by machine learning
  • Prototyped & Designed the Query Auto Suggestion for Amazon Kendra.
  • Designed and Built the scaling component for Amazon Kendra to scale for search across a document corpus in order of Millions up from few thousands.
Machine LearningArchitectureDeep LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Software Development Engineer

Dec 2014Apr 2019 · 4 yrs 4 mos

  • Founding member of AWS AppSync
  • Designed developed and part of the launch team for AWS AppSync.
  • Designed & Built the infrastructure component for AWS AppSync GraphQL engine.
  • Designed & Built the authentication mechanism for the AWS AppSync GraphQL engine.
  • Designed & built different resolvers for the GraphQL Engine that works with AWS Ecosystem.
  • Support service in operations, build tooling, and support customers.
  • Designed and Developed various functional components for AWS SDK for Mobile including AWS SDK for Android, AWS SDK for iOS, AWS SDK for Xamarin and AWS SDK for Unity.
  • Developer evangalism, writing blogs, giving talks to spread more knowledge and help build community around the product.

Tata consultancy services

2 roles

Mobile Application Developer

Promoted

May 2012Nov 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Design & Program Native Applications on Mobile on Android and iOS Platform using Android SDK & XCode.
  • Design & Program HTML5 based mobile web Application on Android & iOS Platform
  • Design & Program Web services
  • Server Administrations on Weblogic

Developer

Sep 2010May 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Design & Program Web services and JEE base web applications
  • Work on Proof of Concepts to showcase potential Use cases to solve Business Problems
  • Adobe Flex Programmer (Flex 3.5)
  • Server Administrations on Weblogic , Apache Web server

Education

Visvesvaraya Technological University

B. E — ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING;

Jan 2006Jan 2010

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