Karthik Babu
Software Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolKarthik Babu is a software engineering technical leader with 8+ years of experience building and operating high-availability networking and email security systems from Silicon Valley. He has led cross-functional teams at Cisco and Barracuda, driving product development across on-premises appliances and cloud migrations using AWS, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code. His hands-on background spans networking firmware and OS features, REST APIs, Python automation, and designing both monolith and microservice architectures for mission-critical services. Karthik contributes to standards work through IEEE TSN and brings practical expertise in performance benchmarking, monitoring pipelines, and reliability engineering. Colleagues know him for turning abstract ideas into production-ready code and for blending deep protocol-level understanding with pragmatic cloud-native solutions. Based in San Jose, he combines a strong academic foundation in computer networks with a penchant for inventing and documenting repeatable engineering practices.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science at University of MadrasMaster of Science (MS), Computer Networks, Master of Science (MS), Computer Networks at Middlesex UniversityProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
kharicha/hkarthikbabu
Jul 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
CiscoDevNet/ansible-dcnm
Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:47 reviews, 22 commits, 14 PRs in 8 months
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