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Karthik Loganathan

Marlboro,NJ

Summary

I am an engineering leader who possesses strong technical leadership and team-building abilities, and I have over 12 years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems and big data processing. I have incubated and delivered several high-impact revenue-generating businesses in both small and large companies. I have built and managed multiple high-performing, diverse engineering organizations across different geographical locations.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineering Leader

Amazon
08.2022 - Current
  • Led engineering & science team and incubated a new ad program within Amazon ads focusing on local advertising. This new business enables all local small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) within the US to grow their businesses by connecting with consumers in their neighborhood through Amazon owned and operated services
  • Scaled the business to support millions of shoppers journey across amazon owned and operated services.
  • Collaborated with 20+ teams across Amazon Ads to transform and build new distributed processing infrastructure , APIs and big data pipeline to enable new product for millions of amazon shopper and built Machine learning model training pipelines.
  • Developed and executed the long term org's vision and technology strategy

Principal Engineering Manager

Microsoft
06.2021 - 07.2022
  • Built retail media platform for 3P retailers - Product/Display/Banner Ads, Campaign management, Ad delivery, Ad data monetization, attribution, Event tracking.
  • Low latency, high availability, massive scale end-to-end Ads serving infrastructure
  • Data pipelines - High throughput streaming and batch data ingestion, retrieval, ETL, warehouse solutions.
  • Defining roadmap and execution strategy for Infrastructure platform team in collaboration with peer engineering teams, partners, and product management teams.
  • Actively hiring engineers , leads , managers at all levels.


Engineering Manager

Metallic
03.2019 - 05.2021
  • Incubated and launched a new business Metallic, SaaS Backup as a service on top of Microsoft Azure and Commvault Complete – Metallic Core, Metallic Endpoint, Metallic O365
  • Worked with all business stakeholders and incorporated marketing and sales aspects into the product as microservices.
  • Partnered with Products team and Sr Management to define the roadmap and technical strategy.
  • Scaled the service to accommodate more users and successfully executed Metallic Geo expansion initiatives.
  • Rolled out operation best practices & tools improving quality metrics.
  • Managed SaaS Infrastructure automation efforts using Ansible , TerraForm for operation ease, create immutable architecture and address scale issues.

Engineering Manager

Commvault Systems Inc.
01.2017 - 03.2019
  • Built and launched data protection and disaster recovery solutions to protect data on the public cloud. It uses advanced forensics and AI to remain resilient and help businesses quickly recover data from disasters. Commvault was named Leader in this space for 12 consecutive years by Gartner(https://www.commvault.com/gc/itleaders)
  • Managed geo distributed team of 25+ engineers supporting backup and recovery for virtualization (AWS, VMWare - Backup and Recovery, DR Solution) and Deployment team.
  • Designed simplified REST API, python SDK for Commvault and PowerShell Commandlets.
  • Hired 10 engineers and leads into various roles.
  • Rolled out modern software deployment initiative – Azure Templates, AWS Cloud Formation, Docker images.


Software Developer

Commvault Systems
04.2012 - 12.2016

C++ , Python developer

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

Coimbatore Institute of Technology
Coimbatore
05.2012

Skills

  • Distributed Systems
  • Big Data Pipelines and ML Pipelines
  • Microservices and API development
  • Cloud Infrastructure - AWS/Azure
  • Leadership - Strategy and Roadmap planning
  • Building Diverse High Performing teams
  • SaaS
  • Backup and Recovery , Disaster Recovery
  • Adtech - Ad serving , Creative Optimization , Sourcing and 1P Measurement

Timeline

Software Engineering Leader

Amazon
08.2022 - Current

Principal Engineering Manager

Microsoft
06.2021 - 07.2022

Engineering Manager

Metallic
03.2019 - 05.2021

Engineering Manager

Commvault Systems Inc.
01.2017 - 03.2019

Software Developer

Commvault Systems
04.2012 - 12.2016

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

Coimbatore Institute of Technology
Karthik Loganathan