Karthik J
Engineering Management at Harvey
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarthik J is an engineering leader with 15+ years building and scaling high-throughput, user-centric platforms, most recently leading LinkedIn’s Profile UX and Profile Data Platform teams that power profiles for nearly a billion members. He blends hands-on distributed systems and data-platform experience from roles at Bloomberg, Quora, and Lookout with strong people and product leadership—driving roadmap, adoption, and modernization while coaching tech leads. His work spans database sharding, trading infrastructure, and platformization for partner teams, and he’s a named contributor on patents related to career intelligence and ML-driven reviewer recommendations. Based in San Francisco and now in engineering management at Harvey, he pairs an MBA from Berkeley with technical graduate training to bridge strategy and execution. An under-the-radar strength is his focus on enabling partner teams to “dream up” features—prioritizing developer experience as a multiplier for product impact.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Science, BE, Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessMasters, Computer Engineering, Masters, Computer Engineering at University of Florida
Stackoverflow
97reputation
6kreached
2answers
4questions
Github Skills (8)
java10
heroku6
algorithm6
data-structures6
iweb6
svn6
tortoise-svn6
ruby6
Github contributions (5)
knaidu/problem-solving
Feb 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:504 commits, 211 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
javaproblem-solvingproblemsolving
knaidu/algorithms-programs
Apr 2012 - Feb 2015
Contributions:188 commits, 1 push in 2 years 10 months
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