Kartik Ayalasomayajula
Staff Software Engineer at Block
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKartik Ayalasomayajula is a Staff Software Engineer in Chicago with nine years of experience building cloud-native APIs and routing infrastructure. He has driven performance and efficiency gains—leading migrations that cut resource use by 60%, reduced API traffic by 40%, and improved response times—while designing service meshes and Envoy-based routing for PCI cloud migration. Equally comfortable in backend systems and operational tooling, he’s delivered scalable microservices, one-click deployment pipelines, and performance testing practices that kept tier-1 services stable during peak events. A pragmatic tech lead and mentor, he champions horizontal knowledge sharing through hackathons and tech sessions to spread context across teams. His academic grounding in computer science, mathematics, and entrepreneurship complements a product-minded engineering approach and an evident interest in building things beyond code. Despite a focus on reliability and scale, he brings an entrepreneurial spark that guides pragmatic trade-offs and long-term platform investments.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Mathematics, and Entrepreneurship, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Mathematics, and Entrepreneurship at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, Telugu, German
Github Skills (4)
installer8
bootstrapping8
hermit5
package-manager3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
spicykay/Dotfiles
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
spicykay/spodal
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 3 pushes, 4 branches in 3 days
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