Karthik Gandhi

Director of Engineering

Seattle, Washington, United States19 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Over 18 years of engineering experience.
  • Expert in AI and machine learning technologies.
  • Proven track record in leading diverse engineering teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned engineering leader in AI-driven technology and logistics sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Engineering ManagementCloud ComputingMachine LearningAiTechnical UnderstandingStrategic VisionNatural Language Processing (nlp)

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaApache MesosApache SparkAutonomous VehiclesBusiness AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentCC#C++CassandraCritical ThinkingCross-functional Team Leadership

About

Karthik is an engineering leader with over 18 years of industry experience and over 9 years of engineering leadership experience. He is currently leading PlatformOS charter within Anduril Industries. His teams are responsible for in-house workflow engine, cloud infra, AI platform and mission control platform. Karthik has a strong technical understanding of distributed systems, online payments, and machine learning, and a strategic vision for delivering innovative solutions to complex problems. Karthik's passion is designing and building reliable and scalable software products from the ground up. He has worked on a variety of domains, including kernel engineering, cluster management, multi-region databases, autonomous vehicles, and marketplace optimization. He has also led teams across different geographies and cultures, and supported them with effective teamwork, customer obsession, and clear, concise communication skills.

Experience

19 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
9 mos
Current Experience

Anduril industries

Director of Engineering

Sep 2025Present · 9 mos · Greater Seattle Area · On-site

  • Responsible for PlatformOS which includes,
  • Workflow Engine (think Temporal)
  • AI Platform (Agent Framework, LLM Serving)
  • Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, Azure)
  • Mission Control
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Executive LeadershipStrategic PlanningManufacturing Operations ManagementDefenseDirector level+5

Stripe

3 roles

Engineering Leader, AI/ML Foundations

Dec 2024Sep 2025 · 9 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • I led the Agent Platform team where we developed a Python-based agentic framework for product teams across the company. We conducted comprehensive evaluations of OpenAI's Agent SDK, AWS Strands, Anthropic's Agent SDK, and LangGraph/LangChain to determine our optimal tech stack. Agent observability and evaluation frameworks proved to be our most significant technical challenge during implementation.
  • Built ML foundations at Stripe, specializing in feature engineering. Explore our contributions at https://chronon.ai/

Engineering Leader, Core Infra

Nov 2021Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Greater Seattle Area

  • Building scalable, reliable and efficient product platform services at Stripe.
Executive LeadershipTechnical UnderstandingStrategic Vision

Engineering Leader, Payment Methods

Nov 2020Nov 2021 · 1 yr · Greater Seattle Area

  • Led an incredible team and helped launch Stripe in Singapore, Thailand, India(Preview), and Indonesia(Preview).
  • Worked closely with country regulators to understand compliance and service quality requirements and translated that into technical requirements.
  • Worked with the Stripe partnerships team to evaluate financial partners, their systems, and their API abstractions to pick the right launch partner in different countries.
  • Sped up the payment method integration within Stripe from 6+ months to 8 weeks.
Executive LeadershipTechnical UnderstandingStrategic Vision

Grab

Senior Engineering Manager

Mar 2019Nov 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos · Singapore · On-site

  • Supported a team of ~35 software engineers and data scientists who work on critical economic levers such as Pricing, Surge Engine, Forecasting, Demand Shaping, Supply Shaping, and the ML platform that powers it all.
  • Finding the right balance between growth and profitability while consistently improving our engineering systems' efficiency and reliability was a crucial challenge within my organization.
Technical UnderstandingStrategic VisionExecutive LeadershipEngineering ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Machine Learning+1

Uber

Engineering Leader

Mar 2015Mar 2019 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  • Uber Freight:
  • Led Uber's latest venture, Uber Freight - a technology platform where we match shippers with carriers. Read more about Uber Freight here - https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/06/uber-self-driving-trucks-are-now-moving-cargo-for-uber-freight-customers/
  • Uber ATG:
  • Uber ATG was a leading developer of L4 autonomous vehicles and funded by Volvo and Totota.
  • My teams worked on exciting problems in the area of Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Robotics to help build safe and efficient self-driving vehicles.
  • Uber:
  • Manage engineers and lead projects.
  • Played an important role in helping to design and build core parts of the Uber's infrastructure in both US and China.
  • Build and support (Apache) Cassandra-as-a-service on Apache Mesos using the Cassandra-Mesos framework. This framework makes it easy to rapidly deploy multiple Cassandra clusters and help ease the management complexities associated with bare-metal Cassandra deployments.
  • More about my work - https://www.percona.com/live/17/content/running-cassandra-apache-mesos-across-multiple-datacenters-uber
Strategic VisionBusiness DevelopmentMachine LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)Autonomous Vehicles

Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2013Jan 2015 · 2 yrs · Greater Seattle Area

  • Software Developer, Autopilot
Technical Understanding

Juniper networks

Software Engineer IV

Jul 2010Jul 2013 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  • Virtualization
Technical UnderstandingData Centre ArchitectureCloud ComputingSoftware Defined Networking

Stony brook university

Research Associate

Jan 2009Jul 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos · Stony Brook, NY · On-site

  • Worked under the advisement of Proff. Tzi-cker Chiueh in Experimental Computer Systems Lab (ECSL). This project is about dynamic resource management for virtual machines running on XEN.
  • Worked as a Research Associate in Applied Algorithms Lab (General Sentiment, Inc) under the advisement of Prof. Steven Skiena. Lydia, the project is all about news and blog analysis using distributed systems build on top of hadoop platform. More information about the project can be found at,
  • http://www2.algorithm.cs.sunysb.edu/access/login/
Technical UnderstandingResearch ProjectsNatural Language Processing (NLP)Machine LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Vmware

Member, Technical Staff

Jan 2007Jan 2009 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • VMKernel and Filesystems.
Technical Understanding

Education

Stony Brook University

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Cloud Computing Specialization

National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Computer Science

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