Karthick Ramachandran
Principal Software Engineer - Foundation AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarthick Ramachandran is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and high-performance infrastructure from low-latency trading platforms to cloud-scale caching and AI inference. Based in San Francisco, he currently leads Foundation AI inference infrastructure at Roblox, focusing on scalable 3D–4D generative model pipelines, Triton integration, and orchestration with Temporal. Previously he owned Roblox’s caching client ecosystem that served over 1.5B QPS and drove storage and performance work across Redis and Memcached. His background spans disaggregated datastores and data pipelines at Mixpanel and backend DAG pipelines and trading systems earlier in his career, underpinned by advanced academic training in computer science. Known for optimizing inference and orchestration at scale, he combines algorithmic rigor with practical engineering to turn research-grade models into reliable production services.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Computer Science, Ph.D Computer Science at Western UniversityBE Computer Science, BE Computer Science at University of Madras
Hindi, Tamil, English
Github Skills (29)
stackexchange10
umbraco10
mixpanel10
redis10
proxy10
redis-client10
integrations10
workload10
batch10
container9
kubernetes9
accelerator9
hashicorp9
vault9
sdk9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rkarthick/morpheus-client
Feb 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:49 commits in 3 months
rkarthick/StackExchange.Redis
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
General purpose redis client
Contributions:30 pushes, 5 branches in 8 months
redisredis-clientredis-streamspurposeredis-search
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