Karthik Giritharan
Director of Engineering @ Twilio | Google Cloud AI | Microsoft - Bing Search & AI | Startup Advisor
- Role
- Director of Engineering at Twilio
- Location
- Bengaluru, KA, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Karthik Giritharan
Experienced technology visionary with over two decades of expertise in building highly-scalable systems, serving millions of users worldwide. • Definition of product roadmaps & technology investments for multi-billion-dollar business. • Manage performance & career development for large teams. As ‘career advisor’, coached & mentored several next-level leaders & employees across the globe.• Technical depth in a wide range of platforms – architecture, design and development of AI/ ML systems, Mobile, Web-based applications & Enterprise systems, with solid understanding of OOAD, design patterns and Data Structures & Algorithms.• Shipped highly scalable bigdata systems & platforms, with domain experience in Cloud, Big Data Platforms, Search Technology, Distributed Systems, and Information Retrieval.• Drove cross-org initiatives, such as Engineering Excellence for Microsoft Bing.• Passionate about mentoring & coaching early stage startups.
Experience
Director of Engineering
Jul 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN
Engineering Director for Data Integrations & governance products @ Twilio: Leading a large organization - 6 EMs/ Senior EMs, 6 Principal Engineers and multiple developers across 7 different product teams, responsible for delivering core \"v-next/ data bridges\" platform for the company’s next-gen \"Communications + Data + AI\" strategy, while continuing to improve existing Segment platform.
Education
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
MS, Software Systems
Government College of Technology, Coimbatore
BE
Skills
- Technical Leadership
- Javascript
- Search Engine Technology
- C++
- Distributed File Systems
- Big Data
- Algorithms
- Product Development
- Embedded Systems
- Machine Learning
- Software Design
- Architecture
- Integration
- Design Patterns
- C#
- .net
- Data Structures
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