Suman Karthik
Principal Engineer at Confluent
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSuman Karthik is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of experience building large-scale, data-driven systems across marquee Indian and global tech companies. He has led architecture and platform efforts at Flipkart, built warehousing technology at Udaan, and scaled systems at Uber before joining Confluent to work on streaming data platforms. A pragmatic engineer and early-stage founder, he co-founded Spinaxys where he shipped multiple products and ran high-IP services, reflecting both product instincts and hands-on delivery. Based in Bengaluru with an MS from IIIT Hyderabad, he balances deep systems design with community involvement, having organized tech meetups and barcamps earlier in his career. Currently on an indefinite break, he brings a rare mix of startup grit and enterprise-scale engineering to solve hard distributed systems problems.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)B-tech Computer Science, B-tech Computer Science at JB Institute Of Information Technology
English, Telugu, Hindi
Github Skills (45)
channel10
kubernetes9
java9
docker9
go9
concurrency8
scheduling8
effort8
golang8
kubernetes-monitoring7
mesos7
million7
synchronization7
kite7
serve7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mrphoebs/mrphoebs.github.io
Sep 2015 - Apr 2025
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 8 months
mrphoebs/dockerfiles
Aug 2016 - Aug 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
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