Karan Sikka
Software Engineer at Columbia University
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKaran Sikka is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building high-impact products across research and ad-tech, currently developing Lightning-Pose for animal pose estimation at Columbia University. He combines deep engineering chops from roles at Google and Heap with entrepreneurial experience founding Appcubator, a YC- and StartX-backed no-code platform that was open-sourced after serving thousands of users. At Google he spanned frontend and midtier systems and later moved into product management for Campaign Manager 360, giving him a rare blend of hands-on implementation and product-level ownership. Past projects include ML-driven content recognition and visualization tooling, reflecting a consistent focus on applied machine learning, performance, and user-facing UX improvements. Trained in computer science with a computational biology minor from Carnegie Mellon, he brings a research-oriented mindset to production systems. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who moves fluidly between prototype research and shipping robust, user-centered software.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Science Honors Program Nanotechnology; Microbiology Lab, Science Honors Program Nanotechnology; Microbiology Lab at Columbia UniversityBachelor's Degree Computer Science Minor in Computational Biology, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science Minor in Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon UniversityGarcia MRSEC Materials Science, Garcia MRSEC Materials Science at Stony Brook University
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Github Skills (121)
pose10
nodejs10
mongodb10
pytorch-lightning10
pose-estimation10
odm10
modeling10
jquery9
sdk9
javascript-client9
python9
asynchronous9
orm9
tdd9
bdd8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ksikka/lightning-pose
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
Accelerated pose estimation and tracking using semi-supervised convolutional networks.
Contributions:21 PRs, 361 pushes, 57 branches in 5 months
ksikka/matlab-simserver
Jun 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
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