Karan Rakesh

Software Engineer

Santa Clara, California, United States7 yrs 2 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Java and React.js development.
  • Significant experience in deep learning and AI projects.
  • Proven track record of improving system performance.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Software Engineer with expertise in AI and cloud technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaReact.jsDeep LearningAndroid DevelopmentVirtual Reality

Other Skills

DebuggingPython (Programming Language)Reinforcement LearningC++Data CollectionMachine LearningInformation SecurityCloud ComputingArtificial Intelligence (AI)CLinuxLive Video StreamingComputer ScienceApplied Machine LearningAlgorithms

About

Developing cool things(hopefully) at Netflix.

Experience

7 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
4 mos
Current Experience

Netflix

Software Engineer

Dec 2025Present · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

Amazon

2 roles

Software Development Engineer

Feb 2021Dec 2025 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States

  • ETLM: Worked on redesigning legacy ETL platform to reduce the operational burden caused by a 20+ year old
  • system. Added features to enable customers to create/update/delete alarms on their ETL jobs with one-click instead
  • of having to manually track all jobs.
  • Dataset Tagging: As part of Digital Marketing Act, added feature to the search experience to allow dataset owners
  • to tag their datasets to comply with the correct access restrictions based on the criticality of the data.
  • Front-end: Worked on multiple UI projects: Redesigned the experience to allow dataset owners to input custom
  • troubleshooting urls for customers to reach out to them, by leveraging graphQL with Dynamodb and building the
  • front end for it as well. This eliminated the operational burden and manual deployment in favor of a self-service
  • approach. Additionally worked on modernizing various components of the UI by leveraging micro-front ends. Also
  • worked on reducing the latency of the most visited page by 70% from 10secs to 3 secs
  • AWS: Worked on upgrading search indexers from on-premise servers to leverage AWS Cloud architecture. This
  • improved the observability of the code through cloudwatch logging and step functions. Also reduced ops load by
  • leveraging best practices like horizontal scaling and parallelization in the updated indexing architecture.
  • Observability: Added metrics and dashboards regarding all the external calls from our indexer. This helped triage
  • over 10 high severity issues using just a couple of graphs and dropped the time resolve these issues from a day to a
  • couple of hours.
JavaDebuggingPython (Programming Language)React.js

Software Development Engineer Intern

May 2020Aug 2020 · 3 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States

North carolina state university

Student Employee

Aug 2019Oct 2019 · 2 mos

Samsung r&d institute india - bangalore private limited

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2018Jul 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Deep Learning:
  • ◦ Leveraged Neural Nets, Reinforcement (A3C) and Supervised Learning to build streaming solution over Exoplayer (Android).
  • ◦ Achieved 25% Quality of Experience improvement.
  • ◦ Also ported the code into Samsung native C++ code base.
  • Data Collection:
  • ◦ Developed an Android app for data collection
  • ◦ Built & merged data collection module into media framework with automated strategic push to logging server.
  • ◦ Collected 60 hours of network data through field testing and used this data after preprocessing and splitting for training, testing and validation.
  • Virtual Reality:
  • ◦ Developed a Proof-of-Concept enabling viewing of 6 Degrees-of-Freedom Volumetic Video Content using proprietary VR framework.
  • ◦ Used Volumetric Mesh Content for the PoC demo and deployed the solution on the Samsung Gear VR.
  • Collaboration:
  • ◦ Completed 2 Machine Learning/ Deep Learning Coursera courses under Samsung sponsorship.
  • ◦ Conducted three part knowledge sharing session on the introduction to TensorFlow.
  • ◦ Mentored 2 interns and 1 full-time employee.
  • ◦ Received Samsung Spot award recognising project contributions.

Software Engineer

Jun 2017Mar 2018 · 9 mos

Samsung r&d institute india - bangalore private limited

Summer Internship

May 2016Jul 2016 · 2 mos

  • Part of the Services & Platform team as a Summer Intern. Worked with Android app development and Web Technology

Education

North Carolina State University

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Jan 2019Jan 2021

National Institute of Technology Karnataka

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Computer Science

Jan 2013Jan 2017

Maharishi Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School

Jan 2011Jan 2013

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