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Karthik Kumar

Principal Engineering Manager @ Ei | SAFe Certified Agilist | Ex- Team Lead @ Polaris Wireless App Engg.| Ex-Fractalite | Ex-Quantechie

Bengaluru

11+ years of work experience

Educational Initiatives
Jun 20233 yrs 4 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Leading the Applications Engineering function and co-managed the Platforms Engineering vertical, spearheading initiatives to improve code quality and deployment efficiency. Architected and implemented Jenkins pipelines for multiple environments, enabling daily production releases and streamlining the development lifecycle. Drove technology upgrades from Angular 10 to Angular 14 and PHP, ensuring seamless transitions while also introducing near-zero-cost hosting solutions for SPA and Node.js applications. Pioneered the adoption of Bitbucket's Pull Request and code review features and established standard code review guidelines in Confluence, significantly enhancing team collaboration. Developed key data-driven dashboards (CNC, TAT, and Sprint Metrics) to demonstrate the impact of engineering initiatives. Introduced and configured SonarQube for continuous code quality monitoring and integrated the Xray plugin for Jira to establish a robust Test Repository and execution framework.
Educational Initiatives
Jun 20221 yr 1 moJun 2023

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Polaris Wireless
Jan 20226 mosJun 2022

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Polaris Wireless
Apr 20201 yr 9 mosDec 2021

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Web Development Lead Team Lead for a six member squad to deliver various React based surveillance-map features. I also extend my support as a Solution Architect for the Application Engg. team.
Fractal Analytics
Sep 20198 mosApr 2020

Greater Bengaluru Area

My prime contributions were developing Azure Cloud based Architectures for Analytics and ML solutions. Designing and implementing Jenkins based DevOps pipelines Big Data platforms. Helping multiple teams with my Angular and ReactJs based full stack developer with .Net experience. Also, driving the interview sessions for screening candidates for ReactJs, data engineering and Azure Cloud.
Quantium
Dec 20189 mosAug 2019

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Quantium
Jun 20171 yr 6 mosNov 2018

Hyderabad Area, India

I had a very fortunate opportunity of teaming up with MyChoices Foundation (NGO for women) and build various application to tackle violence against young girls and women.(https://mychoicesfoundation.org/) As part of this, I had developed an Angular-DotNet-Sql Server stack web application. This web application was hosted in Microsoft Azure. I had developed a mobile application from scratch, to aid the "Safe Village Program" awareness campaign run by MyChoices Foundation I worked on Sisense BI tool to generate insightful reports on the data collected through the applications
Microsoft Campus Club
Jun 20152 yrsMay 2017

Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi

As Joint-secretary of Microsoft Campus Club in my college, I had organized two technical symposiums in my college. Also had taken technology share session and hands-on workshops twice every month on various topics to fellow college-mates and juniors.
GitHub
@Karthikkumardev

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Education

Mepco Schlenk Engineering College

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering

Mepco Schlenk Engineering College

20134 yrs2017
TVS matriculation higher Secondary School

High School Diploma, Maths Physics Chemistry Computer Science

TVS matriculation higher Secondary School

200013 yrs2013

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Headline

Principal Engineering Manager @ Ei | SAFe Certified Agilist | Ex- Team Lead @ Polaris Wireless App Engg.| Ex-Fractalite | Ex-Quantechie

About

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Angular, Azure, Firebase, Highcharts, Xamarin, and Project Management. Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor's degree focused in Computer Engineering from Mepco schlenk engineering college.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Principal Engineering Manager at Educational Initiatives, Jun 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid, Leading the Applications Engineering function and co-managed the Platforms Engineering vertical, spearheading initiatives to improve code quality and deployment efficiency. Architected and implemented Jenkins pipelines for multiple environments, enabling daily production releases and streamlining the development lifecycle. Drove technology upgrades from Angular 10 to Angular 14 and PHP, ensuring seamless transitions while also introducing near-zero-cost hosting solutions for SPA and Node.js applications. Pioneered the adoption of Bitbucket's Pull Request and code review features and established standard code review guidelines in Confluence, significantly enhancing team collaboration. Developed key data-driven dashboards (CNC, TAT, and Sprint Metrics) to demonstrate the impact of engineering initiatives. Introduced and configured SonarQube for continuous code quality monitoring and integrated the Xray plugin for Jira to establish a robust Test Repository and execution framework.

Senior Engineering Manager at Educational Initiatives, Jun 2022 - Jun 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Senior Software Engineer at Polaris Wireless, Jan 2022 - Jun 2022 · 6 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer at Polaris Wireless, Apr 2020 - Dec 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Web Development Lead Team Lead for a six member squad to deliver various React based surveillance-map features. I also extend my support as a Solution Architect for the Application Engg. team.

Software Engineer at Fractal Analytics, Sep 2019 - Apr 2020 · 8 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, My prime contributions were developing Azure Cloud based Architectures for Analytics and ML solutions. Designing and implementing Jenkins based DevOps pipelines Big Data platforms. Helping multiple teams with my Angular and ReactJs based full stack developer with .Net experience. Also, driving the interview sessions for screening candidates for ReactJs, data engineering and Azure Cloud.

Software Engineer at Quantium, Dec 2018 - Aug 2019 · 9 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Associate Software Engineer at Quantium, Jun 2017 - Nov 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos, Hyderabad Area, India, I had a very fortunate opportunity of teaming up with MyChoices Foundation (NGO for women) and build various application to tackle violence against young girls and women.(https://mychoicesfoundation.org/) As part of this, I had developed an Angular-DotNet-Sql Server stack web application. This web application was hosted in Microsoft Azure. I had developed a mobile application from scratch, to aid the "Safe Village Program" awareness campaign run by MyChoices Foundation I worked on Sisense BI tool to generate insightful reports on the data collected through the applications

Joint Secretary at Microsoft Campus Club, Jun 2015 - May 2017 · 2 yrs, Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi, As Joint-secretary of Microsoft Campus Club in my college, I had organized two technical symposiums in my college. Also had taken technology share session and hands-on workshops twice every month on various topics to fellow college-mates and juniors.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Mepco Schlenk Engineering College

High School Diploma, Maths Physics Chemistry Computer Science, TVS matriculation higher Secondary School

Public links

github: https://github.com/Karthikkumardev