Karthik Kumara
Software Engineer at Runa
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolKarthik Kumara is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in machine learning, collaborative filtering, and text mining, currently based in Sunnyvale and working at Google. His career blends research-grade algorithms (IISc background) with product-focused engineering, from building personalized recommendation engines and content extraction pipelines at Lulu.com and Ugenie to production ML work at Staples Innovation Lab and Google. He has deep experience in information retrieval, automatic annotation, and large-scale content deduplication—skills he applied to ebook conversion, social app recommendations, and search-marketing tools. Early research roles at Max Planck and IISc gave him a strong statistical and algorithmic foundation, informing practical systems like handwriting-recognition and sentiment review extraction. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who bridges academic rigour and pragmatic product delivery, often surfacing non-obvious improvements in performance and data quality.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
ME, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data mining, ME, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data mining at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)Vijaya PU, Jayanagar BangaloreBE, Electronics and Communication, BE, Electronics and Communication at PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore
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Github Skills (22)
python8
automatic-differentiation8
pytorch7
autodiff7
machine-learning7
gpu7
composable7
jit7
jax6
amazon-ec26
amazon-emr6
statistics6
amazon-web-services6
tpu6
numpy5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
karthkk/pyrobo
Apr 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:45 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
karthkk/pytools
Dec 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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