Akhil Karanth
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAkhil Karanth is a Senior Software Engineer based in Pune with over a decade of experience building and scaling high-throughput distributed systems. Currently at Datadog, he helps design a streaming platform that ingests millions of messages per second, bringing deep expertise in cloud infrastructure and backend platform engineering honed during multiple senior roles at Grubhub. His earlier work spans analytics-driven solutions—predictive ETA algorithms and visualization tools for CSX—and full-stack .NET web applications from his university and early-career roles. Comfortable across data pipelines, performance-sensitive services, and operational tooling, he focuses on reliable, observable systems that operate at scale. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who blends production-first engineering with data-informed design. He holds a BE from University of Pune and an MS from University of Florida, pairing strong academic foundations with real-world systems experience.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityMaster of Science (MS), Master of Science (MS) at University of Florida
Github Skills (16)
java9
conventions9
static-analysis9
sun9
command-line-tool9
code-analysis8
checkstyle8
client-library8
static-code-analysis8
futures8
ant8
librdkafka7
ant-task7
kafka7
asynchronous6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
akhil-karanth/adventofcode
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
fede1024/rust-rdkafka
Jun 2023 - Jun 2023
A fully asynchronous, futures-based Kafka client library for Rust based on librdkafka
Contributions:1 review in 1 day
asynchronousrustclient-librarykafkakafka-client
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