Karim Fatehi

Director of Engineering

Boston, MA, United States17 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven track record in leading high-performance engineering teams.
Expertise in managing large-scale data engineering projects.
Strong background in cloud deployment and software development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech engineering leader with extensive experience in cloud and data-driven projects.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipEngineering ManagementSoftware Development

Other Skills

JavaSpannerGuiceMapReduceAppsFrameworkSpringPythonAWS ServicesRedshiftSQLNoSQLEJBDB2VerticaSQL Server

About

I have a track record of delivering engineering projects dealing with petabytes of data. I operate across the spectrum from design, code and quality to staffing and operating high performance engineering teams. I enjoy working in teams. Synergy is not a buzz-word for me; rather it is the outcome of an aligned team of great people.

Experience

17 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

2 mos

Current Experience

Klaviyo

Director of Engineering

Mar 2026 – Present · 2 mos · Boston, MA · Hybrid

Mobile Channels - Lead the engineering teams fo SMS, RCS, WhatsApp, and all things text messaging.

Engineering LeadershipEngineering Management

Google

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Jun 2022 – Mar 2026 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Cambridge, MA · Hybrid

2025-beyond (Google One): Engineering lead responsible for helping Google users across the world experience and purchase the best of Google AI via Google One:
https://one.google.com/about/google-ai-plans/
2022-2025 (Google Photos): Engineering lead responsible for Google Photos's $XB storage monetization business. Building products and solutions for our users so they have the best experience in a cloud-first Photo Gallery.

Engineering LeadershipEngineering Management

Staff Software Engineer / Manager

Dec 2015 – Jan 2021 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Cambridge, MA

Lead the design and development of e-commerce storefront for Google Photos printed products.
Technologies used: Java, Spanner, Guice, MapReduce, AppsFramework.

Amazon

Manager, Software Development

Apr 2013 – Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Cambridge, MA

Lead engineering team building analytics services for the Machine Learning Platform within Amazon Echo.
Built services for large scale task distribution for ground truthing.
Built tools and applications for large scale data collection.
Technologies used: Java, Spring, Python, AWS Services, Redshift, Grid compute, SQL, NoSQL.

JavaSpringPythonAWS ServicesRedshiftSQL+2

Vantiv (litle & co)

Software Engineer

Sep 2012 – Apr 2013 · 7 mos · Lowell, MA

Developed products for surfacing insights derived from payments to merchants.
Technologies used: Java, Spring, EJB, DB2, Vertica.

JavaSpringEJBDB2VerticaSoftware Development

Vestmark

Software Engineer

Mar 2009 – Sep 2012 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Wakefield, MA

Developed products for account and trade data reconciliation, portfolio performance management via composites, load simulation for testing and custom frameworks for integration with external feeds.
Technologies used: Java, EJB, SQL Server, XML.

JavaEJBSQL ServerXMLSoftware Development