Karthik Raj
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Chime
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKarthik Raj is a Senior Software Engineering Manager in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building large-scale, data-intensive platforms across fintech, health tech, and SaaS. He has led end-to-end modernization efforts at Chime—designing data lakes, real-time Flink pipelines, and event schematization—that cut latency by ~99% and materially reduced fraud losses. A hands-on leader, he has driven platform reliability improvements (90% fewer incidents/alerts), patented a no/low-code ingestion system supporting 1,000+ pipelines, and standardized event schemas to enable self-serve analytics. His background spans high-throughput systems at Twilio and foundational data engineering at Datavant, giving him deep expertise in AWS, microservices, and real-time stream processing. Karthik combines technical craftsmanship with talent development, routinely mentoring teams to deliver cross-functional, product-aligned data solutions. He is pragmatic about trade-offs and focused on building scalable, operationally simple systems that unlock AI and personalization use cases.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at The Ohio State UniversityB.Tech Information Technology, B.Tech Information Technology at Anna University Chennai
Tamil, English
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Github Skills (9)
sink9
faust8
python-client8
python7
apache-kafka7
kafka7
history6
magento6
apache5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
maverickz/Leetcode
Oct 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:55 commits, 8 pushes in 8 months
maverickz/twilio-c9-bootstrap
Jul 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:13 pushes in 3 months
basic-pythonpythoncloud9twiliobootstrap
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