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title: "Lokesh Karthikeyan - Senior Software Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Lokesh Karthikeyan, Engineering at Rippling | Past: Amazon, VMware based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and codex. Explore public work links including github and leetcode."
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# Lokesh Karthikeyan on Tal

## Headline

Engineering at Rippling \| Past: Amazon, VMware

## About

7\+ years of building at scale\. From optimizing Amazon Fulfillment logistics to streamlining Amazon Pay and Alexa Food, I specialize in Java/AWS ecosystems that don’t break under pressure\. Beyond the code, I’m big on engineering culture, driving best practices, mentoring, and collaborating across teams to ship things that matter\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

notebooklm

notion

## Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at Rippling, Feb 2026 \- Present · 6 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Personal goal pursuit at Career Break, Jun 2025 \- Jan 2026 · 8 mos, 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

Engineering \- Alexa Food at Amazon, Jun 2024 \- May 2025 · 1 yr, 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\.

Engineering \- Amazon Pay at Amazon, May 2021 \- May 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo, 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\.

Engineering \- Amazon Fulfillment Technologies at Amazon, Jul 2019 \- Apr 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos, 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\.

Software Engineer Trainee at Fiorano Software, Jan 2019 \- Jun 2019 · 6 mos, 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\.

Student Ambassador at GeeksforGeeks, Aug 2018 \- Jun 2019 · 11 mos, Successfully conducted placement trials and contests for the students of PSG College of Technology\.

## Education

Integrated Dual Degree\(B\. Sc \+ M\. Sc\), Theoretical Computer Science, PSG College of Technology

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/itslokesh
- leetcode: https://leetcode\.com/karthikeyanlogesh982

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