Karthik Balu
Vikbot Innovation Director
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Summary
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Top SchoolKarthik Balu is an entrepreneur and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building AI-driven warehouse automation and supply chain solutions from Chennai. As founder and Innovation Director of Vikbot/Clofus, he architects computer-vision and AR video-analytics systems that replace manual inventory counts, enable visual inspection, and integrate with ERP/WMS workflows. His background in WMS consulting and hands-on work with JDA/RedPrairie, Oracle/SQL performance tuning, and IoT/mobile apps gives him rare depth across both industrial automation and cloud-native software. He previously led AI-driven media platform architecture as CTO and began his career in industrial instrumentation, which informs his pragmatic approach to hardware-software integrations. A Stanford GSB early-stage entrepreneurship finalist and Concordia-trained engineer, he combines startup grit with systems-level technical rigor to turn ideas into deployable products.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Top 20 Finalist, Spark 05 South Asia, Seed Spark, Online Certificate Program for Early Stage Entrepreneurs, Top 20 Finalist, Top 20 Finalist, Spark 05 South Asia, Seed Spark, Online Certificate Program for Early Stage Entrepreneurs, Top 20 Finalist at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessB.tech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, B.tech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at SRM UniversityM.Eng., Montreal, Canada, Electrical and Computer Science Engineering, M.Eng., Montreal, Canada, Electrical and Computer Science Engineering at Concordia University
English, Tamil
Github Skills (147)
rasa-core10
gps10
bots10
botkit10
dialogue-systems10
voice10
conversational-ai10
dialogflow10
nlp10
chatbot10
conversation10
ackermann10
rasa-x10
google-assistant10
bot-framework10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
clofus/clofus-chatbot
Mar 2019 - Apr 2022
Clofus® Chat bot Platform using rasa core and rasa nlu similar to rasa x but opensource demo https://clofus.github.io/clofus-chatbot/
Contributions:27 commits, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
nlubotdialogue-systemsrasa-chatbotrasacore
clofus/ffmpeg-gl
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 25 pushes in 2 days
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