Karishnu Poddar is a Senior System Engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable backend systems and developer-facing products, currently shaping AI-driven infrastructure at Cloudflare ETI. He has led high-throughput engineering efforts—scaling Yellow.ai’s inbox from 10k to 100k+ RPS, launching email ticketing and analytics, and introducing testing and review practices to grow teams. A co-author on a granted US patent and a top-2% cited researcher, he also contributed to popular open-source tooling like data-forge-ts by adding core iterators and DataFrame operations with thorough test suites. His background spans startups and product companies (Postman, S20.AI, Launch) where he shipped privacy-preserving ML platforms, agentic LLM workflows, and production-grade static analysis. Outside work he’s an advanced scuba diver and marathon runner—traits that reflect a mix of technical rigor, curiosity, and endurance.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at Vellore Institute of Technology
The JavaScript data transformation and analysis toolkit inspired by Pandas and LINQ.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Karishnu contributed to the `data-forge-ts` project by implementing iterators and related functionality. The contributions include new iterators like "tile," "ravel," and "repeat," along with comprehensive test suites using Mocha and Chai. The code changes focused on core data transformation logic, demonstrating a good understanding of data structures and test-driven development. Additionally, the user added the "melt" method to the DataFrame class, which suggests experience with data manipulation and analysis techniques.
Cuttle automates the transformation of your Python notebook into deployment-ready projects (API, ML pipeline, or just a Python script)
Contributions:1 release, 37 commits, 7 pushes in 9 months
transformationapipythonpipelinedata-science
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Karishnu Poddar - Senior System Engineer at Cloudflare