# Karthik Ramanathan > Physics. Finance. Data Science. Software Engineering. Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/karthikramanathan ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer II @ Sezzle Jan 2025 – Present ### Software Engineer @ Sezzle Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | United States As a part of the Marketing-Engineering team my role was to help the Marketing team in deploying and tracking their campaigns to increase user sign-ups and product engagement. Some of the highlights included - • Building, deploying and managing the Campaign-Attributor microservice for tracking over 1 million annual user sign-ups, implementing marketing campaigns, measuring their conversion rates and enabling the data-driven allocation of the marketing budget • Increasing marketing revenue by over $200,000 annually through payouts driven by the integration of the Adjoe and Adgem gaming platforms within the Sezzle ecosystem. • Performing my code-owner duties for the Website-CMS-Boilerplate, Marketing-SMS and Braze-Gateway services. ### Data Engineer @ Peterbilt Motors Company Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Denton, Texas, United States • Built a Booth Recommendation algorithm for parts entering the Paint Room, with the objective of minimizing production costs. Preliminary analysis shows a 10 minute decrease in paint time (daily) and $200,000 reduction in paint cost (annual). As of 2025, the algorithm is in production. • Analyzed Paint Production Data to determine sources of waste, built Tableau Dashboards to assist the Paint Department in tracking paint waste and outlined remedies ### Graduate Research Assistant @ Syracuse University School of Information Studies Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Syracuse, New York, United States Working with Professor Jeffrey Stanton in the domain of Natural Language Processing and Understanding. We're currently working on two projects: 1. Propose a standardized metric for the comparison of the performance of sentence transformers. 2. Predicting the popularity of research papers by analyzing the writing quality metrics and text summary using Sequence Models. ### Senior Financial Analyst @ Deutsche Bank Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Mumbai Area, India Other than risk assessment my work involved a major focus on automating reporting, analyses and building a reliable self service analytics model for several stakeholders. Took on several roles as a Software Developer and Systems Architect among others. • Calculate the risk in Pensions Portfolios of German, UK and US Plans • Contributed towards building a Corporate and Government Bond Pricing Application using in-house Python library KANNON • Built a Python tool to calculate Contributory Value-at-Risk (VaR), to study the Portfolios driving the banking book risk of the Bank, which was implemented for efficient risk management ### Junior Financial Analyst @ Deutsche Bank Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Mumbai Area, India • Calculate the risk in Pensions Portfolios of German, UK and US Plans. • Built a What-If Scenario Analyser, using VBA, to calculate the impacts of trades on the Value-at-Risk (VaR) and otherrisk metrics of the Bank. ### Risk Analyst Intern @ Deutsche Bank Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India • Tested and enhanced the bank's Full Revaluation Value at Risk System as part of a 7-member Strategic Production team • Built a Python Based tool to identify and rectify the stale or incorrect risk daily within the Full Revaluation System ### Marketing Associate @ 180 Degree Consulting Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Hyderabad Area, India 180 Degrees Consulting - BITS Hyd. Branch ### Team Captain @ BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus Football Team Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Hyderabad Area, India • Organised the ARENA 2017 Football Tournament. TOURNAMENTS: • 1st of 28: ARENA 2017 Football (National Level) • 1st of 18: SreeVision Soccer Tournament (District Level) ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Applied Data Science Syracuse University ### Msc in Physics Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani ### Maths and Science Little World School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/karthik-ramanathan-b6a5b2129 --- Source: https://flows.cv/karthikramanathan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/karthikramanathan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05