Karthik Hariharan
Senior Engineering Manager at Self-employed
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarthik Hariharan is a seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years of hands-on and management experience building and scaling teams and products across startups and high-growth consumer platforms. He has led engineering organizations at DoorDash, Roblox, Uber, Digit, and venture-backed Goodwater, specializing in growth, subscriptions, safety/moderation, and platform engineering for systems that serve millions of users. Known for balancing developer productivity with scalable architecture, he reorganizes teams and hiring practices to match a product’s growth stage while driving measurable business impact. An active angel investor and advisor, he helps seed and Series A founders with engineering org design, hiring, and product strategy—bringing operator experience to early-stage companies. Based in San Francisco, he combines full‑stack technical depth with a pragmatic focus on data/ML-enabled product safety and monetization, and often prefers structural team changes over short-term tactical fixes.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (25)
sdk9
github-api8
api7
css6
experiences6
cli5
remix5
ruby5
docker-image5
github5
twitter5
javascript5
fundamentals5
docker4
rust3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hkarthik/slack-btc
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 2 days
hkarthik/dotfiles
Mar 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:3 pushes in 5 months
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