# Karthik Iyer

> Building scalable backend systems

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/karthikiyer

Experienced Tech Lead with a demonstrated history of working in a multitude of technologies in the computer software industry. 
Skilled in software development in Scala, Java, Python, Go, Distributed Backend Systems, Microservices, Containerization and Cloud Services

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Stellar Development Foundation
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Building the platform for the Stellar blockchain

### Senior Software Engineer @ Gemini
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Team: Institutional Strategies/Marketplace team.

Tech Stack - Scala, Play Framework, REST APIs, gRPC/protobuf, Postgres, AWS - Lambda, S3, DynamoDb, Apache Kafka, Cassandra, Trading Systems and more

### Senior Software Engineer @ Livongo
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States
New features development for the enterprise core team using microservice architecture.
Technologies - Scala, Akka, Play Framework, Apache Kafka, gRPC/Protobuf, REST APIs, DynamoDB, MySQL, Redis, Kubernetes, ETL, Redshift and more

### Software Engineer IV @ StreamSets Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Mimosa Networks
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Developer III @ Ericsson
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016

### Software Developer @ Alcatel-Lucent
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Networking
North Carolina State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/karthikiyer56

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Last updated: 2026-04-11