Summary
Karthik Sivadas is a founder and engineer with 10 years of experience building distributed systems, data platforms, and Ruby on Rails products from Bengaluru. He has moved between hands-on engineering and early-stage product work—helping ship a Reverse ETL open-source platform, implementing temporal workflow engines, and building data pipelines with Apache Spark to cut query times from hours to minutes. At Truecaller he built a rule-driven reward engine that handled millions in cashback distribution and designed real-time segmentation for personalized banners. His recent roles blend founding and staff-engineer responsibilities, focusing on connector frameworks, CI/CD automation, and customer onboarding workflows for large clients. Comfortable across backend, data, and infrastructure, he pairs pragmatic system design with community-driven open source maintenance. An entrepreneur at heart, he has also co-founded a crowdsourced agriculture platform, showing a pattern of turning domain problems into scalable technical products.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science at Cochin University of Science and Technology
English, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Tamil