Karan Bhargava
Lead Software Engineer at FreeWheel
Elk Grove, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaran Bhargava is a Lead Software Engineer with a decade of experience building mobile, full-stack, and data engineering solutions across startups and enterprise teams in the Bay Area. He has led end-to-end data pipeline architecture at Magnite using AWS Kinesis, Spark, Glue and S3, and now drives engineering at FreeWheel, blending hands-on development with technical leadership. His background spans Android/iOS app development, cloud-native microservices on Azure and AWS, and CI/CD automation—skills honed from roles at Abbott, Quisk, and Kohl’s. A founder-minded technologist (co-founder and COO of LIFTLINGO) who pairs product sensibility with engineering rigor, he’s known for improving operational metrics and shipping scalable systems. Based in Elk Grove, CA, he brings a people-first approach rooted in early customer-facing and retail experience, applying patience and enthusiasm to complex technical problems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at San José State University
Hindi, Punjabi, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
viewer7
visualizer6
python5
java5
javascript5
kafka3
apache-kafka2
apache2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
karan1525/karan1525.github.io
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
Boilerplate for a website on GitHub pages
Contributions:3 PRs, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
boilerplate
karan1525/InfoGain
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:198 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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