Karthik Padmanabhan
SVP Engineering - Platform & Core Product
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolKarthik Padmanabhan is an experienced technology executive with 18+ years driving platform and product engineering, currently serving as SVP Engineering for Platform & Core Product at PageUp in Melbourne. He builds high-performing, distributed teams and has scaled engineering organisations from 20 to 70+ while championing developer experience, ownership models, and rapid delivery practices. A hands-on leader who still codes, he has led platform re-architectures across multi-account AWS environments and cut deployment cycles from weekly to 15-minute production pushes. Karthik co-created a 32-parameter platform health framework that shifted service quality dramatically and helped three acquisitions adopt a unified, secure platform baseline. He has practical open-source experience improving test automation in the Pact .NET ecosystem, reflecting a focus on robust CI/CD and contract testing. Always curious about AI in the SDLC, he pairs product-led strategy with technical craftsmanship to accelerate time-to-market.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Mechanical Engineering, BE, Mechanical Engineering at University of MadrasIGNIIT, ecommerce and Information technology, IGNIIT, ecommerce and Information technology at NIIT Ltd
English, Tamil
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Github Skills (19)
unit-testing10
net10
contract10
dotnet10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
pact10
csharp10
mocking9
test-automation9
api7
httpcontext6
functional-programming6
entity-framework6
yield6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pact-foundation/pact-net
Jul 2014 - Oct 2014
.NET version of Pact. Enables consumer driven contract testing, providing a mock service and DSL for the consumer project, and interaction playback and verification for the service provider project.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Karthik focused on refactoring and improving the PactNet library's testing infrastructure, particularly around the mock provider service. They modified the request dispatcher, context factory, and associated tests, transitioning to a new context service and cleaning up static calls. These changes aimed to streamline the handling of expected requests and responses, making the testing process more robust and maintainable. The work involved significant changes to the core components and test configurations.
contractpactplaybackmockpact-net
pageuppeople-opensource/Eventsystem
Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:99 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 5 months
event-sourcedkinesistechnologiesserverlessaws-lambda
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