# Nikhil Reddy K.

> SDE 2 @Yahoo! | Cloud & Distributed Systems | Platform Engineering

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

With a data-driven mindset, I build backend systems and scalable cloud-native solutions. I've always been captivated by the complexity of distributed systems — how they scale, fail, and recover — and enjoy debugging them to improve performance and reliability. I tend to iterate based on what actually breaks in production, what slows teams down, and where automation genuinely helps rather than adding complexity.

At Yahoo, I'm building developer tools and infrastructure—including APIs, SDKs, CLIs—to optimize cloud spend and reduce org-wide security alerts. These tools provide engineers with fast feedback loops through built-in policies/guardrails that automatically detect and remediate non-compliant resources in real-time. This helps drive cloud controls with AI‑assisted automation (Claude Code, MCP integrations), enhancing developer productivity.

At Quantiphi, I implemented a centralized observability infrastructure for cloud-native microservices using FluentBit, Kafka, Grafana Loki, and GCS—processing 0.5TB+ of logs daily across 10+ services. Improved production visibility by instrumenting logs with Correlation IDs for distributed request tracing and fine-tuning Prometheus alert rules—reducing error detection time from 15 to 4 minutes, and making on-call far more actionable. Automated GCP infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and deployed containers on a 12-node GKE cluster with HPA autoscaling and health probes—achieving 99.99% availability.

At KreditBee (Fintech), I contributed to scaling serverless APIs (Go/Lambda) for a digital lending platform (LMS) that powers loan eligibility, idempotent & retry-safe disbursals, and customer communications for 5.2M+ MAU. Built an event-driven payment reminder service processing 400K+ daily notifications (SNS pub/sub→per-channel SQS→Lambda)—driving 18% improvement in on-time loan repayments.

Always happy to talk backend systems, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or observability!

## Work Experience
### Software Dev Engineer II @ Yahoo
Jan 2024 – Present | San Jose, CA
☁️ Cloud Platforms Engineering - Developer Control Plane
➡ Building tools and infrastructure to optimize cloud costs, reduce security alerts, and boost developer productivity at a global scale, using AI‑assisted workflows.

### Senior Software Engineer @ KreditBee
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Bengaluru

### Software Developer @ Quantiphi
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Bengaluru


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Software Engineering
Northeastern University

### Bachelor of Technology - BTech
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nikhil-reddy-karukonda

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Last updated: 2026-03-29