Kartick Vijayakumar

Software Engineer

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India15 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building large-scale backend services.
Proven track record in fintech and ed-tech industries.
Strong leadership in engineering team growth and product development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Architect with expertise in Fintech and EdTech solutions.

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Device DriversFirmwareData StructuresAlgorithmsARMCC++LinuxKernel ProgrammingFlash MemoryLow Level ProgrammingNAND FlashPower ManagementDebuggingKernel

About

Software architect and polyglot coder with expertise in building backend services, event-driven flows, workflow orchestration systems and real-time analytics. A customer-oriented problem solver capable of building solutions from scratch and a platform thinker capable of building the right abstractions at the right time. Have a track record of building successful products and platforms across domains with a demonstrated ability to build large-scale software and grow teams around it. Interested in ideas that can change the world!

Experience

15 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Uber

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos · India

Making Uber for Business, enterprise ready.
Led the Fulfilment Finalization and Fares team in Bangalore.

Hypto

Head Of Engineering

Aug 2021 – Jul 2022 · 11 mos · India

Built India's largest on/off-ramp service for Crypto exchanges and NFT marketplaces.
Deconstructed core architecture into financial primitives.
Processed 300k transactions per day and $3B in value per month.

Amazon

Senior Software Development Engineer

Sep 2016 – Aug 2021 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Chennai Area, India

Led teams and built ed-tech platforms that power Amazon Academy.
Led tech evaluations for M & A of long-tail ed-tech verticals in India.
Designed and built an end-to-end multi-tiered architecture that enabled content discovery, content delivery, content entitlements, response handling and analytics for Amazon Academy
Built ingestion and authoring tools to create and publish content across various types.
Designed and developed an analytics and insights system that was targeted at improving student learning outcomes across various cohorts.
Designed and developed orchestration services for AWS DataPipeline and Glue - Cloud services for Data-Orchestration, BigData, Analytics and ETL.
Owned and managed complete control plane and data plane for AWS DataPipeline.
Simplified and improved workflow utilization of AWS DataPipeline by 40%
Re-architected Android/FireOS display stack for low FPS devices and with it launched an exclusive product for the China market.

Cyanogen

Software Development Engineer

Nov 2015 – Sep 2016 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Data engineering and metrics framework for devices running CyanogenMod and Cyanogen OS.
Core Android SDK developer for Cyanogen OS - Framework and services which enabled Cyanogen MODS.

Qualcomm

Senior Engineer

Aug 2012 – Oct 2015 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Design and development of ARM System Memory Management Unit (SMMU) on Qualcomm mobile chipsets. Deep understanding of ARM CPU internals like MMU, Cache etc.
WLAN Firmware development for Qualcomm WiFi Access Point chipsets that work on 802.11ac protocol (for home and enterprise routers).
Prime contributor to Qualcomm Reference Design (QRD) projects which attract huge business from China.

Samsung electronics

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2010 – Aug 2012 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

Development and commercialization of Firmware for Samsung internal memory on early smartphones. Firmware - Flash Translation Layer (FTL) for SLC and 2 bit MLC NAND memory devices of the range of 512MB to 2GB.