Karthik A
Senior Engineering Manager at Pinterest
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolKarthik A is a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager in San Jose with 12 years of experience building ML infrastructure and developer-facing frameworks. At Pinterest he has led ML training compute, framework/SDK development (an in-house PyTorch-Lightning–style framework), GPU capacity and scheduling strategy, Ray-based infrastructure, and experimentation tooling to speed model iteration and deployment. His background spans large-scale compute platforms from Twitter’s Mesos/Aurora optimizations to real-time analytics at Sumo Logic, giving him deep expertise in packing, scheduling, and scaling GPU/CPU resources. He combines pragmatic engineering with people leadership—mentoring through Code2040 and moving from individual contributor to senior manager while continuing to ship core infra. Trained in machine learning at UT Austin, he often bridges research-style experimentation and production-grade systems to accelerate ML teams.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science - Specialization Machine Learning, Master's degree Computer Science - Specialization Machine Learning at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at PSG College of Technology
Github Skills (7)
cli9
utility7
continuation6
twitter5
finagle5
scala4
playframework3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
k4rthik/git-cal
Sep 2013 - Feb 2015
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Contributions:40 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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k4rthik/trendis
Dec 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:10 commits in 3 days
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