Kartik Kulkarni

Kartik Kulkarni Kartik has a account -- Redwood City, California 500+ connections Contact info IEEE Carnegie Mellon University Activity 2,436 followers No alt text provided for this image IEEE HAC Training Workshop on Renewable Energy Installation at BSSYWC’19 - IEEE SIGHT Kartik shared this 1 Like No alt text provided for this image Measuring social impact and maximising equality of opportunity Kartik shared this 1 Like See all Experience IEEE Chair, Global Humanitarian Technology Activities Company NameIEEE Dates EmployedJan 2019 – Present Employment Duration8 mos Serving as the 2019 Chairman of the IEEE Global Humanitarian Activities, the strategic arm of the BoD that manages IEEE’s portfolio of programs and multi-million dollar investments that leverage 450K+ engineers in 190+ countries in applying and advancing technology solutions for sustainable development. Oracle Corporation Company NameOracle Corporation Total Duration6 yrs 8 mos TitlePrincipal Member Of Technical Staff Dates EmployedJul 2017 – Present Employment Duration2 yrs 2 mos LocationRedwood City, CA, USA 1) Architecting a unique Blockchain platform that unifies the maturity and sophistication of the Database stack with Blockchain's trust and consensus. This is a highly scalable, permission-ed Blockchain platform that enables rich and complex enterprise applications in the Fintech, E-governance, and Sustainable Development space; currently, this project is in the stealth mode. 2) Driving the architecture and implementation of distributed schema management subsystem (DDL - Data Definition Language layer) of the Oracle's next-generation database platform - massive scale-out (yet supporting complete SQL) data engine natively leveraging modern hardware such as the Intel Non-Volatile Memory and Remote-Direct-Memory-Access. See less TitleSenior Member Of Technical Staff Dates EmployedJul 2014 – Jul 2017 Employment Duration3 yrs 1 mo LocationRedwood City Transactions and In-memory Data Technology Group 1) Designed and Implemented the Distributed Architecture of Oracle Data In-Memory: VLDB 2015 Paper - http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p1630-mukherjee.pdf This architecture features scale-out of both memory capacity and workload by distribution, glitch-free fail-over via redundancy, dynamic and elastic cluster re-balancing, and compute-shipping to exploit data locality. See less TitleMember Of Technical Staff Dates EmployedJan 2013 – Jul 2014 Employment Duration1 yr 7 mos LocationRedwood City, California 1) Designed and Implemented In-Memory Transactions Journal on Oracle Active Data Guard to enable real-time analytics on backup infrastructure. 2) Refactored the legacy transaction processing kernel's multi-version concurrency control optimizations to support multi-tenancy in Oracle's cloud PaaS offering. See less Show fewer roles IEEE Chair, IEEE SIGHT (Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology), Global Steering committee Company NameIEEE Dates EmployedJan 2013 – Dec 2016 Employment Duration4 yrs www.ieeesight.org SIGHT is a global community of locally-focused engineers who inspire, enable, and connect with their peers and partners to solve local problems by deploying, developing, demonstrating, educating or advocating engineering and technology based solutions. Currently, 95+ SIGHTs in 35 countries are working on activities and projects in the fields of education, communication, energy, health and assistive technology. Kartik chairs the SIGHT steering committee, which evangelizes, guides, evaluates, and funds the projects. See less Novellus Systems Software Engineer Company NameNovellus Systems Dates EmployedJul 2009 – Aug 2011 Employment Duration2 yrs 2 mos LocationBangalore, India Led team of three engineers in programming micro-robots used in the fabrication of electronic circuits. Initiated and implemented an automated framework, resulting in 60% cycle time savings over manual testing. Sun Microsystems Intern and Campus Ambassador Company NameSun Microsystems Dates EmployedJun 2007 – Jun 2009 Employment Duration2 yrs 1 mo LocationBangalore/Hubli Evangelized Open Source technology and culture on campus by organizing workshops, talks, and contests. Co-founded Software Freedom Fest to promote adoption of open source technologies by19local organizations; this event has become an annual tradition in the university. Education Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University Degree NameMS Field Of StudyComputer Engineering Dates attended or expected graduation 2011 – 2012 Activities and Societies: Parallel Data Lab (PDL) B.V.Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology B.V.Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology Degree NameBachelor of Engineering (BE) Field Of StudyElectronics & Communication Dates attended or expected graduation 2005 – 2009 Activities and Societies: Best Outgoing Student - 2009 batch; Chairman, IEEE Student Branch