KARTHIKEYAN SURYANARAYANAN
MONROE
Summary
Over 15 years of software engineering experience. 8 years of software engineering experience. 8 years of work experience in Mixed Reality (HoloLens) working on data engineering and insights. Expertise in creating Big Data pipelines, Analysis of data and usage patterns, creating Insightful Power BI reports and end-to-end alerting pipeline for Azure. 5 years of writing infrastructure to automate testing UX and APIs of Microsoft Windows live apps. 2 years of working on infrastructure to measure the accuracy of speech algorithms used in Hololens.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Staff Data Engineer
Zendesk
04.2023 - Current
- Tech lead for the Data catalog team leading the efforts to integrate with the right data catalog solution to catalog all Zendesk datasets
- Wrote a generic Protobuf parser to integrate complex Kafka metadata into data catalog by parsing Protobuf schema
- Architected and implemented a data quality service to ensure no data is lost during movement from source database to data lake
- Wrote, reviewed and edited technical documents in accordance with template requirements
Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft Corporation
09.2020 - 03.2023
- Built Infrastructure for rapidly bringing up Azure based data pipelines for Mixed Reality projects (HoloLens, Microsoft VR)
- Worked on creating end-to-end data pipelines, data insights, PowerBI reports, alerting and monitoring systems for understanding the quality and usage patterns of Mixed Reality Devices
- Data architect working on prototypes for next gen data pipelines to process data from all platforms (Linux, Android, Windows) and from Azure MR services
- Worked on creating a solution to securely upload telemetry and crash data collected from IVAS (US Military Mixed Reality headsets) to Azure data explorer database
- Worked on creating an Azure Devops pipeline for IVAS data pipeline to automatically deploy Azure data explorer functions and Azure Apps
- Working on making the Azure data pipelines secure and privacy compliant
Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft Corporation
03.2017 - 09.2020
- Worked on Creating the early version of big data pipeline that powered the PowerBI reports created for Mixed Reality SLT
- Built infrastructure to automatically monitor all components of the data pipeline right from telemetry events emitted by the device to KPI reports
- Createdsolutiontowritestatemachinebasedsessionsindatapipelinetomodelcomplex user scenarios and KPIs
- Created Infrastructure to easily egress the data from Cosmos (internal Microsoft system) to Azure Data explorer, SQL using Azure Data Factory and Azure Function app
Software Engineer
Microsoft Corporation
11.2014 - 03.2017
- Created Ground truth infrastructure to measure the accuracy of speech algorithms used in Mixed reality devices
- Implemented a module in Hololens to dump audio recording when user presses a combination of buttons for offline investigation of speech issues
- Created automated set of tests to validate the Speech APIs.
Software Engineer
Microsoft Corporation
10.2008 - 10.2014
- Created Infrastructure to write automated tests to validate the user interface of Windows
- Live messenger and Windows 8 apps
- Created Infrastructure to write automated tests to validate the APIs used in presence system of Windows Live messenger
- Worked on starting and running a Performance v-team that created performance metrics, tools to measure performance and identified the core set of scenarios that did not meet the perf bar.
Education
Masters - Computer Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
Bachelors - Information Technology
PSG College of Technology
Skills
- SQL
- C# Programming
- HTML & CSS
- AWS
- Git
- Python
- JQuery
- Microsoft Azure
- C
- Database
- Java Script
- Java
- Azure Data Explorer
- Azure Synapse/ADF
- DevOps
Timeline
Senior Staff Data Engineer
Zendesk
04.2023 - Current
Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft Corporation
09.2020 - 03.2023
Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft Corporation
03.2017 - 09.2020
Software Engineer
Microsoft Corporation
11.2014 - 03.2017
Software Engineer
Microsoft Corporation
10.2008 - 10.2014
Masters - Computer Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
Bachelors - Information Technology
PSG College of Technology
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