Summary
Vikram Karthikeyan is a Senior Software Engineer with 7 years of experience building resilient backend systems, currently focused on infrastructure security and PKI at leading tech firms. He holds an MS in Computer Science specializing in Distributed Systems and Machine Learning, and has applied that background to designing end-to-end messaging architectures, microservices in Java, and Node.js backends at Amazon, PayPal, and Salesforce. Vikram has driven large-scale migrations and high-availability PKI services, including a company-wide Root CA rollout and a fault-tolerant CA built in Go with etcd. He also engineered cost-saving, exactly-once message routing for Alexa Notifications and created monitoring and merchant flows that improved payment experiences for PayPal India. Comfortable at the intersection of security, distributed systems, and ML-driven features, he prefers tackling complex problems and—perhaps tellingly—seeks out scrumptious food. Based in Seattle, he combines rigorous academic performance with pragmatic production experience across global data centers.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.96, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.96 at University at Buffalo
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, 8.71/10.0, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, 8.71/10.0 at PSG College of Technology
English, Tamil, Hindi