Karthik Iyer

Building scalable backend systems

San Jose, California, United States

About

Experienced Tech Lead with a demonstrated history of working in a multitude of technologies in the computer software industry. Skilled in software development in Scala, Java, Python, Go, Distributed Backend Systems, Microservices, Containerization and Cloud Services

Experience

  • Software Engineer at Stellar Development Foundation
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

    Building the platform for the Stellar blockchain

  • Senior Software Engineer at Gemini
    Jan 2022 - May 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Team: Institutional Strategies/Marketplace team. Tech Stack - Scala, Play Framework, REST APIs, gRPC/protobuf, Postgres, AWS - Lambda, S3, DynamoDb, Apache Kafka, Cassandra, Trading Systems and more

  • Senior Software Engineer at Livongo
    2020 - 2022 · 2 yrs

    New features development for the enterprise core team using microservice architecture. Technologies - Scala, Akka, Play Framework, Apache Kafka, gRPC/Protobuf, REST APIs, DynamoDB, MySQL, Redis, Kubernetes, ETL, Redshift and more

  • Software Engineer IV at StreamSets Inc.
    2019 - 2020 · 1 yr

  • Senior Staff Software Engineer at Mimosa Networks
    2016 - 2019 · 3 yrs