Summary
Kartik Vempati is a Senior Software Engineer with roughly a decade of experience building backend systems, data infrastructure, and testing frameworks across e-commerce, fintech, and healthcare. He has shipped production infrastructure and internal tools at Google/Nest, led backend and data work at Unit21, and served as a founding backend engineer at airx health before joining Augment. Comfortable across the stack, he combines systems-level thinking from a mechanical engineering background with pragmatic software engineering to improve reliability and observability. Colleagues rely on him to design customer-facing APIs and scalable validation pipelines that bridge product needs and operational constraints. Outside typical backend work, he brings practical hardware and safety-analysis experience from earlier engineering roles, which informs a methodical approach to troubleshooting complex, interdisciplinary problems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara
Lynbrook High School