Karthik Rameshkumar

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led GitHub's APAC technical strategy.
  • Founded Twilio's Global Support Delivery Center.
  • Empowered developer communities across Asia Pacific.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and DevOps expert with a strong focus on developer experience and AI integration.

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Core Skills

Customer ExperienceTeam Leadership

Other Skills

Voice of the Customer AnalysisTeam BuildingTeam ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipEntrepreneurshipSocial MediaStart-upsResearchSocial Media MarketingGraphic DesignCRMJavaMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft ExcelJavaScript

About

Karthik Rameshkumar is a technology leader who believes developers are the most important builders of our time. Starting with entrepreneurial ventures early in his career, he discovered a passion for empowering the world’s developer community, a mission that has shaped every role since. Across his career, Karthik has built and led high performing technology teams that bridge the gap between business outcomes and modern software engineering. He was a founding member of DigitalOcean’s Americas Developer Experience team and later helped scale Twilio’s Global Support Delivery Center, supporting developers and enterprises around the world. Having worked as a CTO, technical co founder, DevOps leader, and customer success executive, Karthik has spent much of his career helping organizations modernize how software is built, delivered, and operated. Today, as Field CTO for APAC at GitHub, he works with CTOs, engineering leaders, and developer communities across the region to explore how AI is reshaping the software development lifecycle. His focus is on improving developer productivity, strengthening application security, and helping organizations adopt modern AI powered DevSecOps practices. Based in India and working across Asia Pacific, Karthik partners with some of the region’s most ambitious organizations as they transform the way software is built, secured, and delivered in the age of AI.

Experience

11 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 5 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 5 mos
Current Experience

Github

3 roles

Field CTO, APAC

Promoted

Mar 2026Present · 2 mos

  • Leading technical strategy and thought leadership for GitHub across the Asia Pacific region.
  • Partnering with engineering leaders, CTOs, and enterprise customers to shape the future of AI-powered software development, DevSecOps, and developer experience.
  • Responsibilities include:
  • Translating emerging technology trends into actionable strategies for customers across APAC
  • Bringing the voice of developers and engineering leaders in the region into GitHub’s product and platform evolution
  • Advising large enterprises on AI-native SDLC, developer productivity, and secure software supply chains
  • Supporting field teams with technical storytelling, executive engagement, and complex transformation programs
  • Representing GitHub at industry forums, executive roundtables, and developer communities across APAC

Director, Technical Solutions Engineering - APAC West

Promoted

Sep 2022Mar 2026 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • I lead GitHub’s Field Services (Solutions Engineers and Cloud Solutions Architects) in APAC West. The team operates across India, ASEAN and the Greater China Region. I rebuilt the team, relationships and functions from scratch to be able to scale in the Age of AI for GitHub
  • Field Services oversees pre-sales engineering, driving consumption revenue growth, improving deal
  • velocity and technical relationships across customer segments ( SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise and Strategic) and accounts for the complete suite of GitHub DevSecOps products.

Manager, Technical Solutions Engineering - APAC West

Jun 2022Sep 2022 · 3 mos

Ariro toys

Angel Investor

Mar 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Goat robotics

Angel Investor

Mar 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Konwert india motors

Angel Investor

Dec 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Hevo data

Director - Global Head, Customer Experience

Feb 2022Jun 2022 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Led a of a team of over 30 spirited customer experience engineers at Hevo Data. Building processes and frameworks to scale the team as well as the Customer Experience operations at Hevo.
Voice of the Customer AnalysisCustomer Experience

Twilio inc.

Sr. Manager, Site Leader - Global Support Delivery Center, India

May 2020Jan 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Founded Twilio's Global Support Delivery Center in Bengaluru. Built a team of over 120 passionate Technical Support Engineers, Personalized Support Engineers and Technical Account Managers in under six quarters 100% remotely during Covid-19’s peak.
  • To put this into perspective, the GSDCI Solved over 80K (~15% of Global Inbound Support Volume)Tickets in 2021 with an average CSAT of 4.47 (0.7 pts above goal). The team was also above goal across all entitlements, though the median tenure of the team was just ~8 months.
  • The Center Owned over 30 Personalized Support Opportunities and ~24500 other Customers with some of Twilio's top-paying customers being on that roster and operated across two time zones with a 15.5 hours operational spread.
  • We closed out the 2021 Employee Engagement Survey with exceptional results, 100% participation, 98% Engagement and almost all indices well above ( most by double digits) over the Company Average.
  • We cared about our people deeply and this led to our focus on growing our people both within the Customer Support team as well as the Services Delivery Center in India, with over 6 internal movements (growth) as well as one move to the PS team. We also have a strong focus on Early-In-Career Talent with us closing 2021 with over 20 Twilions from the Program.
  • Since its founding in May 2020 with one Manager, the team has scaled manifold and exited 2021 with 110 Support Twilions, with 72 Twilions Added just in 2021.
  • In its one and a half year existence, the Center Executed Ruthlessly and has received over 500 Peer recognitions, won 14 TSE/TAM of the Month Awards (EMEA & FL), 5 TSE/TAM of the Quarter Awards(EMEA & FL), 2 APAC GTM Regional Twilio Magic Awards, 1 CCO Award and 1 Twilio Magic Award.
Voice of the Customer AnalysisTeam BuildingTeam LeadershipTeam ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipCustomer Experience

Digitalocean

4 roles

Manager, Developer Experience (Americas)

Aug 2019May 2020 · 9 mos

  • Customer Experience Leadership and Strategy. Built and managed a team of Customer Experience advocates to work with and enhance our customer's journey aboard DigitalOcean's Developer Cloud, with the special responsibility of all public Support engagements across the WWW.
Voice of the Customer AnalysisCustomer Experience

Support Vertical Head

Feb 2019Jul 2019 · 5 mos

  • Customer Experience Strategy and Management. Working on DigitaOcean's Support as a Product Offering and spearheading Product enhancements. Driving by channeling aggregate customer feedback to establish, improve and strategize Engagement. Heading a team of talented Customer Advocates embodying DigitalOcean's relentless pursuit of love for customers and empowering them on their journey of success.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Customer Experience Management
  • Support as a Product
  • Product Enhancements
  • Business Analytics and Management
  • Project Management
  • Billing SME
Voice of the Customer AnalysisCustomer Experience

Platform Support Advocate

Mar 2018Jan 2019 · 10 mos

  • Support Strategic analysis and customer request deflection. Process implementations, improvements, and iterations. Customer Advocacy to better shape the platform for customer’s needs. Escalation management and Incident Handling. Serving as a singular escalation point on shift for customer escalations, and SME on the platform, it’s products and their features.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Escalation management
  • Customer Advocacy
  • Process Evolution
  • Incident Response
  • Support Strategy
  • Platform SME

Platform Support Specialist

Jun 2017Feb 2018 · 8 mos

  • As a Platform Support Specialist, I work to better build a bridge between Developers, Developer Teams and the simplified Cloud that is DigitalOcean. Strategic positioning to enhance product and roadmap to better suit customer needs. Ownership of Strategic Projects responsible for enhanced CSAT and Agent Happiness. Handling customer queries across Platform usage, DevOps, Social Media, SysAdmin and Billing.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Product Enhancement
  • Customer Advocacy
  • DevOps
  • SysAdmin
  • Troubleshooting
  • Support Strategy

Opelq

Co-Founder

Jul 2016Feb 2017 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • A smarter financial eco-system powered by Cognitive Computing.
  • Trust-able, Actionable insights and solutions enabling better personal finance, towards financial inclusion for all
  • Responsibilities
  • Business Plan
  • Product Design
  • Showcases
  • Pitch Decks
  • Technology Strategy
  • Investment Strategy

Relativity management solutions (i) pvt.ltd.

Chief Consultant - Product

Dec 2015Jun 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu/Bengaluru, Karnataka

  • Revolutionizing the entire technology stack inclusive of evolution, improvement and implementation of smart systems to help large organizations manage financial functions like Payroll, Income Tax and Personal Investments.
  • Responsibilities
  • Technology Strategy
  • Full-Stack Development
  • Product Management
  • Technology Talent Acquisition
  • Information Security
  • IT Policy

Founderpassion

Co-Founder, Lead - Technology

Oct 2015Jun 2016 · 8 mos · Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu/Bengaluru, Karnataka

  • Co-Founded and spearheaded technology efforts for a new-age venture capital consortium and start-up accelerator with focus on Start-ups from Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities to mentor, fund and accelerate ventures that showcase bottom-of-the-pyramid innovation that could potentially make a difference
  • Responsibilities
  • Investment Roadmap
  • Technology Oversight
  • Investor Relations
  • Start-up Talent Acquisition

Sano technologies llp

Lead Consultant - Technology

Jun 2015Jun 2016 · 1 yr · Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

  • Enabled founders to conceptualise and bring to life a real-time diabetes management platform, based on an integrated Healthcare Platform that brings together healthcare providers and patients on to one common plane of communication.
  • Responsibilities
  • Start-up Strategy
  • Application Development
  • UI-UX Oversight
  • Digital Marketing
  • Sales Oversight
  • Healthcare IT Policy

Tridham technologies pvt. ltd.

Founder, Managing Director

May 2015Jan 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Coimbatore Area, India

  • Founded a revolutionary firm specializing in IT, Digital Strategy and Last Mile Solutions for Start-ups
  • Responsibilities
  •  Organizational vision
  •  Solution Design
  •  App Design
  •  Business Analysis
  •  UI-UX Oversight
  •  End-to-End Process

Thoughtworks

Business Analyst/Application Developer - Intern

Aug 2014Oct 2014 · 2 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • A unique All-in-one BA/Dev combination. Worked on a pioneering android application for the customers of a leading pharmaceutical retailer. Went above and beyond the call of duty, also building a scalable NodeJS, MongoDB backend for the Application.

Kgisl

Intern

Jan 2014Jul 2014 · 6 mos · Coimbatore Area, India

  • Served as a Business Analyst in the open source systems division. Was responsible for client – team interaction for a pioneering hospital in Kochi during the inception and elaboration phase of a medical records management system.

Education

IIMBx | Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Certificate of Achievement - Customer Relationship Management

Jan 2018Jan 2018

Kyoto University

Professional Certificate — Culture of Services: Paradox of Customer Relations

Jan 2018Jan 2018

University of California, Berkeley

Professional Certificate — Business Writing - Writing for Social Media

Jan 2018Jan 2018

KGiSL Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Information Technology

Jan 2011Jan 2015

Kendriya Vidyalaya Coimbatore

AISSCE — Majors in Life Sciences with Minors in Mathematics

Jan 2007Jan 2011

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