Summary
Kartik Subbarao is a seasoned consultant and technologist with 23 years of experience architecting large-scale, open standards and open source IT solutions for Fortune 500 firms. He has led enterprise directory, messaging, and collaboration transformations at HP, spearheading migrations to OpenLDAP/Linux and building widely adopted services (e.g., an IMAP proxy with 68,000 self-registered users) that delivered substantial cost savings. A published author and frequent speaker, Kartik blends technical leadership with a talent for simplifying complex integrations and fostering learning cultures and internal communities of practice. His work spans hands-on engineering, strategy, and developer advocacy, and he has a track record of taking ideas from concept to production while emphasizing pragmatic, low-complexity designs. Based in Newark, Delaware, he pairs Stanford and Princeton engineering credentials with a long history of promoting open source as a force for organizational and personal transformation.
23 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSE, Computer Engineering, BSE, Computer Engineering at Princeton University
MSE, Computer/Network Engineering, MSE, Computer/Network Engineering at Stanford University