# Karthik Palavalli

> AI @ Microsoft

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/karthikpalavalli

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Developer 2 @ Oracle
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | United States

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ University of Colorado Boulder
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | United States

### Student Assistant @ University of Colorado Boulder
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | United States

### Software Development Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area
1. Built an analytical service to reduce the number of product returns on Amazon.
2. Modeled action items based on features of a product, thereby providing inferences to various services across the organization.
3. Implemented several heuristics in the packaging pipeline to reduce product damages, which lead to a reduction in concessions.

### Software Engineer @ Soroco
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Bangalore
1. Worked on the backend of a virtual assistant application which has 10000+ downloads on Google Play Store.
2. Automated the knowledge correction workflow by clustering queries using unsupervised methods and purity metrics.
3. Mentored several interns over the span of one year.
4. Interviewed 400+ applicants for various development roles in the company.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Soroco
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
1. Built knowledge engineering framework in python for a natural language processing application. A toolbox providing features such as generating word embeddings, clustering methods and similarity metrics.
2. Implemented models for natural language processing tasks taking inspiration from state-of-the-art architectures.
3. Won best project during a project symposium at R V College of Engineering.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Cloud Lending Solutions
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Bengaluru Area, India
1. Redesigned and implemented a generic financial calculator in apex.
2. Implemented an efficient method to calculate IRR(Internal rate of return), using secant root finding algorithm, thereby reducing the run-time of the module by 7%, at the same time making it more precise(up to 0.00001)

### Software Engineer Intern @ Zenataur Creative Systems
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | India
Built python tools to speed up the process of data cleaning by 40%, thereby, improving the throughput of the system.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of Colorado Boulder

### Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology
RV College Of Engineering

### High School Diploma
Sindhi High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29