Summary
Karthik Venkateswaran is a senior software engineer and Infra/SRE leader with over a decade at Hasura, specializing in making Hasura Cloud reliable and observable. He architects and builds observability platforms using OpenTelemetry to turn traces, logs, and events into actionable scaling and reliability decisions for distributed GraphQL services. His work spans Linux networking and kernel tuning, Kubernetes and Nomad orchestration, and developing core gateway and billing systems that power Hasura’s SaaS offering. Karthik blends deep systems-level performance tooling (including lightweight attachable profilers) with hands-on backend and UI engineering, having shipped both OSS and enterprise features. He regularly leads RCA and on-call efforts, and has taken on security program responsibilities such as VDP and HackerOne triage. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs product-focused delivery with a curiosity for low-level performance insights that reveal nonobvious optimization opportunities.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
HSC and SSLC, Computer Science, HSC and SSLC, Computer Science at D T E A Sr Sec School
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science and Engineering, First class with distinction (>8.5 CGPA), Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science and Engineering, First class with distinction (>8.5 CGPA) at SSN College of Engineering
English, Tamil, Hindi