Karthik Sethuraman is a Senior Staff Engineer with 11 years building scalable ML and AI foundations, currently focused on agents-as-a-service at LinkedIn after leading AI foundations and enterprise agents at Airtable. He has a strong track record as a founding engineer and technical lead—driving product acquisitions (Dopt → Airtable), architecting AI-driven onboarding and memory systems, and operating large-scale web crawlers and content distribution at Twitter that served billions daily. Trained as a bioengineer at Penn, he brings a data-first, statistical mindset from prior work in epidemiology and healthcare analytics to practical ML product design. Based in San Francisco, he advises on agents and web crawling, blending systems engineering with research rigor. Off the clock he writes poetry, hinting at a creative approach to complex engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE), Bioengineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE), Bioengineering at University of Pennsylvania
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Karthik Sethuraman - Senior Staff Engineer at LinkedIn