Karthik Kurella
Software Engineer III - AI Infrastructure at Cisco
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarthik Kurella is a Software Engineer III specializing in AI infrastructure and data platforms with eight years of experience building scalable backend systems and large-scale data pipelines. He has delivered performance and maintainability improvements at HPE—optimizing Docker builds, refactoring pipelines, and accelerating data retrieval for enterprise distributed storage—and now builds data infrastructure at Cisco. His background spans low-level driver work at Intel (power-conservation features for display GPUs) to data engineering with Dask and high-performance cluster processing, giving him a rare full-stack perspective across systems, data, and ML tooling. Proficient in C/C++, Java, Scala, Python, and Go, he pairs cloud-native skills (Kubernetes, AWS, Azure) with practical SDK and API design to improve developer productivity. Known for reducing operational friction (e.g., 40% faster environment builds) and translating research-grade data work into production-ready systems, he thrives on solving complex integration and performance challenges.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Software Engineering, 3.8, Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Software Engineering, 3.8 at Vellore Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science, Data Science, 4.0, Master of Science, Data Science, 4.0 at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (69)
apache-spark10
python10
sympy10
model-management10
apple-silicon10
mlflow10
ai10
shark10
dvc10
nvidia10
lifecycle10
incremental-learning10
machine-learning10
ml9
numba9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
karthikkurella/karthikkurella
Feb 2021 - Jul 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
karthikkurella/mlflow
Oct 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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