Karthikeya Udupa
Principle Engineer at Liechtenstein Life | Prosperity
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolKarthikeya Udupa is a principal engineer and product-focused technology leader with 13 years of experience building mobile and web platforms, cloud infrastructure, and cross-functional engineering teams across Europe. He combines hands-on proficiency in Python, AWS, Swift and Objective-C with product ownership experience—from iOS app UX to large-scale SaaS architectures—having led teams as Head of Engineering and Product Manager. Karthikeya has driven agile transformations and delivery at startups and scale-ups, owning hiring, budgeting and stakeholder management while shipping measurable operational improvements like logistics and compliance tooling. His open-source work includes creating a macOS Swift model generator that improved developer ergonomics for JSON-to-model workflows, reflecting a pragmatic approach to tooling and developer UX. Based in Berlin and holding an MSc in Advanced Computer Science, he pairs research-backed interaction design sensibilities with practical engineering discipline to bridge product, design and infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.E. Computer Science, B.E. Computer Science at B.S.Anangpuria Institute Of Technology And ManagementKendriya Vidyalaya SangathanMaster’s Degree Advanced Computer Science, Master’s Degree Advanced Computer Science at University of Birmingham
English, Hindi, Kannada, German
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Github Skills (7)
json10
swift10
macos10
code-generation10
parsing9
model-view-controller9
json-parser9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
insanoid/SwiftyJSONAccelerator
Oct 2015 - Nov 2022
macOS app to generate Swift 5 code for models from JSON (with Codeable)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 160 commits, 86 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Karthikeya focused on improving the user interface of the macOS application to generate Swift code from JSON. Their commits show efforts in enhancing the formatting functions, including adding custom error messages for JSON parsing. They refactored the codebase by renaming files and introduced foundational code generation capabilities for models based on JSON input. Their contributions resulted in a basic working model generator, including support for NSCoding and Swift 5.
json-generatormarshallingswift5macos-appswift
insanoid/FriendFinder-Server
Mar 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:21 commits in 15 days
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