Karthik Gorti

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in architecting scalable database solutions.
Proven track record in performance enhancement for large systems.
Strong leadership in data engineering and analytics initiatives.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Data Engineering expert with a focus on scalable database architectures.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data ArchitectureDatabase DesignData AnalyticsEtl ProcessesDisaster RecoveryPerformance EnhancementData Migration

Other Skills

Data Lake ImplementationScalable Data ModelsSQLOpen Source TechnologiesPythonOracle DatabaseData TransformationData MiningRelational Data ModelingData AnalysisMySQLPercona XtraDB ClusterCactiSDLCScrum

About

* Architect Cost Efficient, heterogeneous Database Stacks using Open Source technologies with long term Scaling, Capacity Planning Considerations * Expertise in Design and Implementation of Data Analytics / Reports / ETL processes using SQL * Expertise in designing Robust yet Scalable Relational Data Models for Applications requiring Intensive Data Processing and Management * Strong Research Inclination, hands-on evaluations of Open Source Data Persistence, Analytics & Messaging Systems including Elastic Search, Kibana, HortonWorks Data Platform, Apache Kafka, Blackhole Engine etc. * Performance Enhancement of Applications by identifying and addressing architectural issues / system bottlenecks * Expertise in Development, Administration of Oracle MySQL, Downstream MySQL forks including Percona XtraDB, Percona XtraDB Cluster * Hands-on with JavaSE, Python and Perl Scripting for internal tools and automation * Innovative, out-of-the box thinker * Strong Written, Spoken and Presentation Skills

Experience

17 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

5 mos

Current Experience

Google

Engineering Leader

Dec 2025 – Present · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Target

Director of Engineering

Feb 2022 – Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Atlassian

Senior (Staff) Engineer

Jul 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Staff Engineer, Site Reliability

Nov 2019 – Jul 2020 · 8 mos

Cred

Databases, Data Infra & Engineering

Aug 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Plivo

Technology Lead - Data Engineering and ML

Apr 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Headed Data Engineering and ML Team.

Freecharge

Data Architect / Senior Principal Engineer

Nov 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Managing Database and Data Engineering Teams.
People Management, Technology, Budget, Hiring, Automation, Roadmap, Compliance & Audit, Systems & Process Scalability and Capacity Planning.
Building scalable Data models
Architected and driving Data Lake implementation

Database DesignData ArchitectureData Lake ImplementationScalable Data Models

Alacriti

3 roles

Database Architect

Mar 2012 – Nov 2015 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Design and Implementation of Data Analytics / Reports / ETL processes using SQL in Orbipay, Alacriti’s EBPP Payments product
Piloted Long term Scaling & Capacity planning
Revamped Data Architecture, delivering high system uptime using Percona XtraDB Cluster, 15 times performance increase in ETL / Reporting jobs using Open Source Database Plugins
Planning and Implementation of Automated Disaster Recovery Program using Python; Reducing the Database Failover ETA from 15 minutes to under 1 minute.
Key member of the Research team, hands-on evaluations of Open Source Data Persistence, Analytics & Messaging Systems including Elastic Search, Kibana, HortonWorks Data Platform, Apache Kafka, Blackhole Engine, Redis etc.

Data AnalyticsETL ProcessesSQLData ArchitectureOpen Source Technologies

Database Developer & Administrator

Promoted

Dec 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos

Key member of the Database team in a Performance Enhancement Project for a Top Global Bank.
Core work involved Researching on the necessary Oracle database optimizations, Analyzing Application Data Access and Persistence Patterns, Data Transformation & Migration Design and Implementation, involving several hundred million payment records, delivering a Performance Increase of 700%
Addressed MySQL Database bottlenecks created due to overnight reporting jobs. Also increased the Reporting Jobs performance by more than 12x, helping the biz get insights in minutes instead of hours.

Oracle DatabasePerformance EnhancementData MigrationData Transformation

Associate Software Engineer

Sep 2009 – Dec 2010 · 1 yr 3 mos

Requirements, Technical Documentation
Design and Execution of Key Software components in a Hospital Information System Implemented using J2EE platform

Neera labs pvt ltd.

Associate Software Engineer

Jun 2009 – Sep 2009 · 3 mos · Bangalore, India

Key Developer of a Project Management application based on PHP, CakePHP MVC Framework, MySQL 5.0
Design & Implementation of E-commerce, web2.0 based website
Client Implementations of CMS Frameworks