Summary
Karthikeyan Rajendran is a Principal ML Research Engineer with eight years of industry experience building C++-based large-scale distributed systems and production ML at companies including Amazon and Meta. He pairs rigorous academic training—a PhD from Princeton in chemical engineering and a history of published research—with hands-on skills in R/Python for statistical modeling, Linux systems, and JavaScript front-ends. His background in quantitative research at Bloomberg and early work on dynamical network models give him uncommon strength in turning complex mathematical models into efficient, production-ready software. A hobbyist app developer with a published Android spelling app, he brings a pragmatic product sensibility to ML research and engineering. Fluent in English and Tamil, with conversational French, he thrives at the intersection of research, systems engineering, and product impact.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Ph. D. Chemical Engineering, Ph. D. Chemical Engineering at Princeton University
English, Tamil, French