Karan Malhi
Principal Product Manager at malhi.org
San Ramon, California, United States
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Top SchoolKaran Malhi is a Principal Product Manager with 18 years of experience building technical SaaS products and commercializing open source software across startups and enterprise organizations. He combines deep engineering chops—evidenced by Apache TomEE contributions improving logging and bug fixes—with a track record of launching greenfield platforms and scalable product processes that cut operational effort by up to 60%. Karan has led product, pricing, security, and GTM at cloud-native and observability companies, shipping features like Kafka protocol support, RBAC/mTLS, and zero-to-one dashboarding with LLM-driven query UX. He mentors and advises early-stage AI startups in finance, content, and education, helping teams define MVPs, usability, and security tradeoffs. Comfortable bridging customer development, analytics (Heap/Databricks), and engineering, he excels at turning open-source foundations into commercially successful, enterprise-ready products.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Chartered Financial Analyst, Finance, Chartered Financial Analyst, Finance at Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of IndiaMasters of Science (Honors), GeoPhysics, Masters of Science (Honors), GeoPhysics at Panjab UniversityMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance and Information Technology, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance and Information Technology at IBS
English, Punjabi, Hindi
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Github Skills (14)
javas10
logging10
java10
debug9
jakartaee9
debugging9
tomcat6
jenkins6
webserver6
macos6
web-application6
slack6
android-build6
android6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/tomee
Sep 2007 - Jul 2011
Apache TomEE
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:116 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Karan primarily contributed to the `apache/tomee` repository by modifying code related to logging, particularly within the `org.apache.openejb.util` package. They added support for external logging configuration and made improvements to the logging properties and child logger methods. Additionally, the user fixed issues within the web application views like viewjndi.jsp and viewejb.jsp, enhancing the application's functionality. These changes focused on improving the logging capabilities and fixing critical bugs within the application.
microprofileapachetomeenetwork-serverjakarta-ee
kmalhi/examples
Jul 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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