# Karthik Peddi > SWE @ C3 AI | Ex-McKinsey, Wells Fargo | MS CS Honors @ USC Location: Redwood City, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/karthikpeddi I’m a software engineer with 5+ years of experience building distributed systems and AI-powered applications that operate at real production scale. I’ve shipped full-stack features end to end—frontend workflows, backend services, and data platforms—across energy, healthcare, and fintech. Right now at C3 AI, I build enterprise optimization applications using React/TypeScript and Python/Node on cloud-native infrastructure. I’ve helped deliver production capabilities tied to $13M+ in contract value, scaled an optimization system from 200 to 25,000 assets (125x) by improving pipelines and access patterns, and reduced UI metrics latency by 40% through caching and data integrations. Previously at McKinsey, I built medical imaging and workflow products—everything from DICOM import to precision annotation and measurement tools—supporting teams across web and mobile. Earlier at Wells Fargo, I built distributed payment systems processing ~20M transactions/day, improving throughput and stability via Kafka consumer optimizations, MongoDB tuning, and Redis caching, while driving test coverage to 86%. I enjoy turning ambiguous problems into reliable, measurable outcomes: faster systems, smoother workflows, and simpler architectures. I’m especially interested in backend/platform engineering, full-stack product development, distributed systems, and applied GenAI (RAG + agentic workflows). If you’re working on data-intensive products or scalable systems, I’d love to connect. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ C3 AI Jan 2025 – Present | Redwood City, CA Building cloud-native, AI-driven enterprise optimization applications, delivering high-throughput data pipelines that improve performance and business outcomes. ### Software Engineer II @ McKinsey & Company Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, CA • Developed and shipped frontend features for a React-based spinal surgery planning application. • Contributed to medical imaging workflows, enhancing user experience through CornerstoneJS integrations. • Collaborated with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver production-ready features. ### Lead Graduate Teaching Assistant @ University of Southern California Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Los Angeles, California, United States Lead Teaching Assistant for the course CSCI-580 : 3D Graphics and Rendering with full tuition scholarship under professor Saty Raghavachary. ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ University of Southern California Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Los Angeles, California, United States Graduate Teaching Assistant with full tuition scholarship for CSCI585: Database Systems under Professor Saty Raghavachary. ### Executive Board Member @ USC Association for Computing Machinery Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Los Angeles, CA ### Software Engineer @ McKinsey & Company Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, CA • Developed and deployed an AWS-hosted GenAI document review application to enhance legal document processing. • Utilized RAG to efficiently answer queries over uploaded legal documents. • Enhanced response speed and retrieval quality through async embedding pipelines and Cohere reranking via LangChain. ### Software Engineer @ Wells Fargo Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Hyderabad Built Enterprise Payment Data Hub that processes 20M+ transactions daily. Scaled data pipelines to handle fast processing of ACH and Wire transactions using a multi-tiered Kafka architecture. ### Software Engineer @ Wells Fargo Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Bengaluru ### Software Engineer @ Virtusa Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 - Co-developed and published a patent pending tool in Python that detects action items and estimates productivity of a meeting from its audio recording. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science University of Southern California ### Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Vellore Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/karthik-peddi --- Source: https://flows.cv/karthikpeddi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/karthikpeddi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11