Karthikey Hegde is a seasoned full-stack engineer with over 16 years of experience delivering scalable enterprise software across Salesforce, Ruby on Rails, and Java ecosystems, and more than a decade focused on Salesforce development including certification as an Application Architect. He has held senior engineering and architect roles at Salesforce, Vlocity, and Akamai, driving product design, implementation, delivery planning, and team mentoring for complex customer-facing systems. Beyond CRM platforms, he contributes to open-source payments infrastructure—adding OLAP and database features to the Rust-based hyperswitch—demonstrating backend and data-layer expertise outside his primary tech stack. Known for blending hands-on coding with architecture and risk/impact analysis, he also coaches teams through demos, training, and quality control to ensure customer satisfaction. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs deep technical breadth with a pragmatic focus on delivery and operational reliability.
7 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology at Ramaiah Institute Of Technology
B.E., Information Science & Engg., B.E., Information Science & Engg. at Visvesvaraya Technological University
An open source payments switch written in Rust to make payments fast, reliable and affordable
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:2 releases, 569 reviews, 68 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Karthikey's contributions primarily involve back-end development within the open-source payments switch project, "hyperswitch," built using Rust. The user implemented new features for the replica database, including adding OLAP capabilities. They also made modifications across various database-related files within the project, suggesting involvement in database interactions and potentially optimization efforts within the payments switch's core functionality. The commits focus on the database layer within the payments domain.
Hyperswitch Encryption Service is an open source Encryption, Decryption and Key Management Service
Contributions:5 releases, 44 reviews, 38 PRs in 8 months
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