Lokesh Karthikeyan
Engineering at Rippling | Past: Amazon, VMware
Bengaluru
7+ years of work experience
Feb 20266 moPresent
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Jun 20258 mosJan 2026
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
• Digital Philanthropy - Created an Android application with Java backend and Traffic police dashboard for Coimbatore City Traffic Police that enables citizens to report traffic violations and issue challans.
• Freelance Project - Helped a pharmacy chain in automating their operational challenges in sales order management.
• Lot of sports - Pickleball, Basketball, Running, Yoga
• Upskilling - Learning how to make use of AI in personal finance portfolio management
• Family time
Jun 20241 yrMay 2025
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
• Personalization: Integrated with ML-driven engine for Alexa home cards to create more relevant, high-engagement customer experiences.
• Infrastructure: Engineered a high-performance image pipeline that slashed API latency and significantly reduced annual infra costs.
• AI Automation: Developed an LLM-powered chatbot to handle internal support, shrinking response times from nearly an hour to under five minutes.
• Workflow Velocity: Re-architected content workflows to automate partner onboarding, turning a 3-week manual process into a 2-day breeze.
May 20213 yrs 1 moMay 2024
Greater Bengaluru Area
Engineered financial infrastructure and compliance systems at scale, focusing on credit products, regulatory adherence, and platform resilience.
• Financial Infrastructure: Built a fault-tolerant EMI insurance processing system using AWS microservices (Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB), significantly accelerating development cycles.
• Credit Services: Designed a real-time credit eligibility service that scaled to millions of monthly requests with zero downtime and seamless CI/CD.
• Compliance Automation: Automated RBI regulatory reporting, replacing weeks of manual audit work with a precise, automated system for seamless sign-offs.
• Developer Velocity: Created reusable AWS CloudFormation constructs that were adopted org-wide, cutting setup time from weeks to days for multiple engineering teams.
Jul 20191 yr 10 mosApr 2021
Greater Bengaluru Area
Delivered high-reliability systems for global warehouse and inventory management, focusing on large-scale migrations and process automation.
• Global Migrations: Led a zero-defect migration of millions of items across six countries, ensuring uninterrupted global operations using AWS Lambda.
• Warehouse Automation: Developed an automated tracking solution that shifted manual warehouse operations to real-time, drastically cutting resolution times.
• Scaling & Expansion: Scaled backend systems across 60+ fulfillment centers in six months, directly supporting rapid growth in global order throughput.
• Technical Mentorship: Led 50+ knowledge-sharing sessions, significantly improving team onboarding efficiency and engineering best practices.
Jan 20196 mosJun 2019
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
As a Software Engineer Trainee at Fiorano Software in Bengaluru, India, I was responsible for daily development tasks for a Java based Message-Oriented-Middleware application. I applied my technical skills to deliver specifications, program changes, unit test scripts, and documentation, ensuring the project's success.
Aug 201811 mosJun 2019
Successfully conducted placement trials and contests for the students of PSG College of Technology.
Lokesh’s AI Stack
Education
Integrated Dual Degree(B. Sc + M. Sc), Theoretical Computer Science
PSG College of Technology
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