Karthik Karanth
Software Developer at Adobe
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolKarthik Karanth is a software developer with 10 years of experience specializing in GPU-accelerated graphics, computer vision, and scientific computing. Based in San Jose, he currently develops cross-platform C++ GPU systems (CUDA, Metal, Vulkan) for Adobe’s Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Substance3D, focusing on real-time ray tracing, rasterization, and image processing. His background includes academic research scaling statistical shape modeling at the University of Utah and building geometry and VR visualization tools at IISc and Esri. He’s shipped production deep-learning and high-throughput image-processing services, backend APIs, and real-time simulation features for startups, demonstrating a rare blend of research rigor and product-grade engineering. Karthik’s GitHub-driven interest in “tracing rays on GPUs” reflects a practical obsession with performance and low-level rendering that informs his cross-disciplinary work. Colleagues find him comfortable moving between research prototypes and performant, production-ready GPU code.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Stackoverflow
91reputation
16kreached
1answer
4questions
Github Skills (200)
numerics10
cpp10
operating-system10
unix10
browser10
api10
computer-vision10
fundamental10
serenity10
point-cloud10
pcl10
user-interface10
png10
linear-algebra10
python10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
medakk/spherro
Jun 2019 - Sep 2022
Smooth particle hydrodynamics fluid simulator
Contributions:133 commits, 5 PRs, 108 pushes in 3 years 3 months
physicsparticlewebglrustfluid
medakk/ticker
Aug 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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