Mohanakrishnakumar Karunakaran
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolMohanakrishnakumar Karunakaran is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience designing and scaling large-scale data pipelines for both B2B and B2C products. He has led engineering teams at Yahoo to build production distributed pipelines and customer-facing APIs, cutting Pig MapReduce runtimes from 5 hours to 1.5 hours and delivering partner-ready systems within a quarter. His background spans real-time and batch processing—Apache Storm, Hadoop, and ETL modernization—and includes deep experience in ad attribution, revenue analytics, and onboarding external partners. Early career work in Finacle and R&D gave him strong foundations in Java, SOA, and product-focused engineering, while his graduate work emphasized distributed systems and big data analytics. Based in Champaign, IL, he combines hands-on performance tuning and DevOps ownership with client-facing product delivery. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often reverse-engineers and re-architects undocumented subsystems to unlock measurable product improvements.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois ChicagoBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at SSN College of Engineering, Anna University
Tamil, English, Hindi, French
Github Skills (19)
hibernate-jpa10
elide10
json-api10
effort10
java10
hibernate10
api10
api-framework10
java-api10
jpa10
api-rest9
json9
analytics9
orm9
graphql9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mkarun2/Practice
Jan 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
mkarun2/XMLValidator
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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