Karthik Viswanathan
Engineering Manager at DeepL
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolKarthik Viswanathan is an engineering manager based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building and operating reliable cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems. He specializes in SRE, tooling, automation and observability, and has led teams responsible for content storage, delivery and on-call reliability at companies like Contentful and DeepL. His hands-on background spans full-stack development and production-grade systems in Java, JavaScript, Python and PHP, plus early-stage frontend MVPs and API design. Notable strengths include debugging complex cross-stack incidents, improving deploy confidence via IaC and CI/CD, and mentoring/onboarding engineers to scale ops practices. Pragmatic and curious, he has a track record of solving unusual problems (e.g., creative coredns fixes) and translating product specs into maintainable technical solutions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Uni, India
Tamil, English
Github Skills (45)
redis10
redis-client10
java10
secrets-manager10
redis-cluster10
aws-secrets-manager9
monitoring9
kubernetes9
secrets9
resque9
time-series9
aws9
dns9
prometheus9
operator9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
argvk/jesque
Apr 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:12 pushes, 6 branches, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
javaresque
argvk/java-serf-client
May 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
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