Karthik Kumar Viswanathan
Seattle, Washington, United States
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SeniorKarthik Kumar is a software development engineer and engineering leader based in Seattle with over a decade of experience building and scaling cloud-native systems. He is currently at Amazon Web Services as a Software Development Engineer, focusing on Bedrock Inference and cloud-scale AI workloads. His career spans leadership and senior engineering roles at PencilDATA, Walmart Global Tech, Cisco, TriNet Zenefits, Freshworks, Zynga, NetApp, Amazon, and a broad consulting portfolio with Reasonable Work. As an open-source contributor, he helped advance the Allegro5 project by improving Windows/Android compatibility, debugging output, and image-loading support through FreeImage. Notably, he bootstrapped Walmart's Site Reliability Engineering team and combines hands-on software craft with architectural leadership to deliver reliable, secure cloud systems.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (23)
debugging10
debug10
freeimage10
windows10
image-loading10
c1110
c1710
android10
game-development10
fileio9
file-access9
file-processing9
file-handling9
cmake8
boost6
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
liballeg/allegro5
Apr 2019 - May 2019
The official Allegro 5 git repository. Pull requests welcome!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 36 comments in 29 days
Contributions summary:Karthik contributed to the debugging and improvement of the Allegro 5 library, focusing on Windows and Android compatibility. They modified the `debug.c` file to enable emitting to both file and debug windows on Windows while restricting file output on Android. Further contributions involved addressing pull request comments and adding preliminary support for the FreeImage library within the image addon, integrating image loading capabilities. They also fixed the path displaying issue on the Output Console.
unixgit-repositoryosxwindowsandroid
guilt/ZCX-File-Protector
Sep 2019 - Sep 2023
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 tag in 4 years
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