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title: "Karthikkannan Maruthamuthu - Principal Software Engineer in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Karthikkannan Maruthamuthu, Hands-on Technical Architect | Building & Scaling Products, Backend, and Data Platforms | Business impact based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and notebooklm."
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# Karthikkannan Maruthamuthu on Tal

## Headline

Hands\-on Technical Architect \| Building & Scaling Products, Backend, and Data Platforms \| Business impact

## About

Hands\-on Technical Architect \| 18\+ years building and scaling products \| End\-to\-end Data Engineering \| Technical leadership & mentoring \| Business impact \| Wide\-ranging domain experience \| Open to Remote\-First \(since 2020\), Hybrid, and On\-Site Work Models Keywords: Architecture; System Design; Distributed Systems; Scalability; Reliability; Performance Tuning; Cost Optimization; SLAs/SLOs; Data Engineering; Data Modeling; Dimensional Modeling; ETL; ELT; dbt; BigQuery; Fivetran; Segment; Reverse ETL; Metabase; SQL; PostgreSQL; CDC; Kafka; Event\-Driven Architecture; Backend Engineering; REST APIs; Microservices; Python; FastAPI; Flask; SQLAlchemy; CI/CD; Docker; Kubernetes; Terraform; GitHub Actions; GCP; AWS; Observability; Domain\-Driven Design; OOAD; SOA; Enterprise Applications; Java; J2EE; Spring; Hibernate; Clojure; Functional Programming; Unit Testing; TDD; Pytest\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

claude code

claude

notebooklm

notion

obsidian

claudecode

## Work experience

Principal Software Engineer at Heroic Public Benefit Corporation, May 2023 \- Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, \* Sole data engineer\. Onboarded Segment and Fivetran to BigQuery and built DBT pipelines with a centralized revenue data mart powering Metabase \* Delivered audit\-ready revenue recognition and marketing attribution with churn/MRR reporting; 150\+ DBT models; 8\-hour freshness SLA\. \* Reverse ETL to HubSpot to activate revenue and lifecycle metrics for marketing\.

Lead Engineer at Sense, Feb 2020 \- May 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, \* Designed and developed the Sense API, expanding the total addressable market and improving integration with customer’s existing ATS systems\. \* Cut customer onboarding time by 50% through process automation\. \* Enhanced data pipeline reliability across multiple ATS systems, including Bullhorn, JobDiva, and PCRecruiter\. \* Mentored engineers on design principles, TDD, unit testing, and effective code reviews\. \* Identified and nurtured talent in engineers, guiding them to faster career growth\.

Product Engineer at Gojek, Dec 2018 \- Feb 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, \* Scaled the Voucher service to handle 4x load capacity

Architect at Treebo Hotels, May 2016 \- Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore, India, \* Architected the Reservation System for Treebo from the ground up\. \* Led the migration from a monolithic architecture to microservices, improving system flexibility\. \* Initiated and led the migration from Python 2\.7 to Python 3\. \* Delivered tech talks on Clean Code, TDD, Design Principles, and Story Points to drive best practices within the organization\. \* Coordinated and facilitated Bangpypers Python community events, providing infrastructure and support through my company\.

Sr\.Associate Architect at Myntra, Mar 2014 \- Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bangalore, \* Horizontally scaled the Shopping Cart and Wishlist services with Cassandra, Redis, and MySQL sharding, supporting 12M USD in sales and a 15x traffic spike\. \* Evolved the existing logistics platform to streamline integration with new courier partners, enhancing flexibility and scalability\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Anna University Chennai

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