Summary
Karthik Ramanathan is a Senior Applied Machine Learning Scientist with 11 years of experience building and productionizing ML systems that drive measurable business impact. He combines first-principles problem solving with full-stack data expertise to deploy real-time scoring models, streamline training workflows, and reduce false positives across products. At Tala he helped deliver a credit model serving 2M+ users and projected to boost profits by 40%, and at Uptake and Tempus he built robust monitoring, CI/CD pipelines, and data flows that turned analyses into production features. Comfortable partnering with engineering and business teams, he reduces time-to-model and operational friction—often enabling model training with a single command. Based in Los Angeles, he brings an unusual blend of product focus and engineering rigor honed across finance, healthcare, and industrial analytics.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Informatics, Master’s Degree Informatics at University of Michigan - School of Information
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science , Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Tamil, English, Hindi