Karthik Kini
Staff Software Engineer at eBay
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolKarthik Kini is a Staff Software Engineer in San Jose with 9 years of experience building high-performance, distributed microservice systems for enterprises like eBay, Palo Alto Networks, Walmart, PayPal and Gap. He specializes in scalable, low-latency RESTful services, multi-tenant architectures, and performance optimization, consistently delivering systems with high availability and strict uptime SLAs. Comfortable across the full backend stack—Java/Quarkus/Spring, Kafka/RabbitMQ, MongoDB/MySQL and cloud platforms—he pairs strong algorithmic problem solving with pragmatic engineering leadership. His work spans critical domains from loyalty and financial services to security and compliance, and he has repeatedly designed zero-downtime persistence and routing solutions for millions-to-billions of transactions. Trained at USC (MS) and NMAM (BE, high GPA), he blends rigorous academic foundations with hands-on delivery at scale.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, GPA : 8.92/10.0, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, GPA : 8.92/10.0 at N M A M Institute of Technology, NITTE
English, Kannada, Konkani, HindiGithub contributions (5)
kkini90/L
Feb 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:211 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
kkini90/Walmart_Interview
Feb 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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