Experienced Software Professional with a great background in Distributed Artificial Intelligence. Current professional passions include: -- Evangelize Agile processes to quickly build working software -- Creating clean beautiful software architectures which are scalable and elegant -- Creating loosely coupled systems with JMS(Message Queues), REST, SSO, OAuth -- Mentor team members on tools and technologies -- Map Reduce (aka Hadoop), -- Cloud based compute and storage -- Schema-less Databases (commonly grouped under NoSQL DBs), -- Functional Object Languages (Scala, Groovy) -- Workflow based systems (Activiti,jBPM) -- Domain Driven Architecture and Design -- Distributed Artificial Intelligence based technologies -- Semantic web technologies (JENA, OWL)

Technical Lead Manager @ Technical Lead Manager for the BSS (Business Support Services) team consisting of 8 team members. -- Drove the architecture of BSS system as a REST based loosely coupled system. -- Used Domain Driven Design to design the business layer in BSS. -- Integrated with recent versions of Leading open source software such as Spring and Hibernate. -- Setup Aspect oriented solution along-with Statsd and Graphite to monitor system availability and performance -- Well versed with issues in integrating with billing service providers such as Aria -- Conducted extensive evaluation of clustered MySQL solution (NDB) through sanity and load tests. -- Built out the architecture for the orchestration of various SOAP and REST based third party services in BSS. -- Built out caching of Product and Device catalog using Redis cache -- Presented talk on the best practices surrounding GIT source control -- Improved stability of BSS in case of temporary DB downtime by use of c3p0 Connection Pool Manager instead of DBCP -- Setup Liquibase to enable schema migration for BSS -- Conducted code reviews using using github to promote good coding practices -- Integrated checkstyle into the maven build process to improve code quality -- Setup the test automation framework for Integration and Unit tests using JUnit and Maven -- Deeply involved in enabling Continuous deployment process in DTHBS -- Drove the architecture, design, implementation and deployment of the BSS system -- Conducted Sprint planning, daily scrum updates to track progress and ensure ontime delivery -- Coordinated with Product to clarify requirements and curate User stories -- Triage bugs in coordination with Product, set priorities and scheduled for specific sprint -- Determined task dependencies within and outside the team -- Troubleshot issues by determining root causes and put in effective fixes -- Conducted performance reviews and one-on-one to foster a cohesive team spirit -- Handled personnel issues in the team From August 2013 to Present (2 years 5 months) Senior Software Engineer @ Architecture, design and implementation of REST based services for file storage and sync. Led the requirement, architecture and design for integrating 3rd party billing provider (Zuora) into the core Sugarsync application Successfully set up a proof of concept for deployment of workflow engine using Activiti toolkit. Upgraded and maintained in house billing system that used Cybersource as payment processor. Investigating applicability of Cloud based toolkits such as Map Reduce and NoSQL technologies for implementing log analysis and core nightly jobs. Currently leading effort to revamp aging backend billing system using Agile methodologies. Successfully mentored a team of developers to deliver a new version of Sugarsync webapp which introduced highly anticipated features as well as modernized the entire tech architecture framework. Design, Implementation and Deployment of high impact web based software for Cloud based file storage. Co-ordinate with a multinational team with locations in Mexico, China, Romania and India to deliver quality software solutions in time. Rapid Response implementation and deployment for issues concerning data security and integrity. Fix and deploy system critical bugs in a responsive and timely manner. Architect, design and implement new features for Sugarsync web based software. Design and Implement high quality software that comply with the latest Web standards. Increase virality of Sugarsync product through sharing and referral workflows for increasing customer yield Integrating multi-language support to enable user from Non-english users to interact with Sugarsync software in their local language. Lead in the implementation of Sugarsync rebranding that introduced a new look and feel for the web application Rapidly fixed spamming related abuse of Sugarsync software and stabilized the system to prevent further abuse. Investigated and fixed credit card fraud occurring due to abuse of Sugarsync software. From May 2011 to September 2013 (2 years 5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineer @ Rapidly setup the groundwork for a pioneering E-prescribing system for controlled substances. Delivered security solutions which would allow secure transmission of electronic prescriptions using two-factor authentication. Incorporated innovative tools and technologies such as MongoDB, HornetMQ, and Spring Framework and Maven. Successfully coordinated with a geographically dispersed team located in India and the US From February 2011 to April 2011 (3 months) Software developer @ I am currently working on multiple projects related to Cancer Clinical Trials funded by NCI. My contributions span all domains of the SDLC. Analysis, use case development, design input, implementation, white box and black box testing and final release co-ordination. The following activites have been conducted as part of SDLC: 1. Generating SRS [software requirement specification] and corresponding use cases 2. Elaboration and elucidation of the design, in terms of setting up interfaces and APIs 3. Implementation of design through use of Dependency injection frameworks [Spring] and persistence frameworks [Hibernate] 4. Development of unit tests and integration tests as part of whitebox testing 5. Development and execution of test cases for UI based blackbox testing 6. Automation of UI testing using the selenium framework From October 2007 to April 2011 (3 years 7 months) Professional Research Assistant @ I have successfully completed my PhD in Computer Science and Engineering. I am available for immediate employment. I am currently looking for Research and/or Software Development [or some hybrid of the two] jobs. I have 5 years of Java Development experience. I also have 2 years of exposure to Web Services, SOAP, WSDL etc. I have good knowledge of Semantic Web, Ontologies, RDF, DAML+OIL etc. From February 2001 to June 2007 (6 years 5 months) Columbia, South Carolina Area

PhD, Computer Science and Engineering @ University of South Carolina-Columbia From 2001 to 2007 M.Tech, Systems and Control Engineering @ Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay From 1998 to 2000 Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Chemical Engineering @ University of Mumbai From 1993 to 1997 Karthik Iyer is skilled in: Web Services, Java, SOAP, Spring, Software Engineering, Hibernate, SOA, Software Development, SDLC, Integration, Test Automation, Quality Assurance, Artificial Intelligence, Selenium, Unit Testing