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• Strong Engineering leader with experience in managing, mentoring and building high performance teams. • Strong experience managing high profile customer escalations and negotiation, building great customer relationships, analytical troubleshooting skills and driving product applicability in the marketplace. • Experience applying Agile methodologies (Certified CSM© and CSPO©). • Hands on application development experience in Java, Python, Spring...

• Strong Engineering leader with experience in managing, mentoring and building high performance teams. • Strong experience managing high profile customer escalations and negotiation, building great customer relationships, analytical troubleshooting skills and driving product applicability in the marketplace. • Experience applying Agile methodologies (Certified CSM© and CSPO©). • Hands on application development experience in Java, Python, Spring and LAMP. • Over 15 years of hands-on experience in Network Security (Firewalls, VPN, Host/Network IPS), Cloud compute environments (Amazon AWS, VMWare vCloud and OpenStack). Knowledge of Deep Neural Networks, algorithms, DL frameworks and artificial intelligence. • Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.Senior Software Program Manager @ • Responsible for managing NVIDIA's Deep Learning Platform: cuDNN - Deep Neural Network Library and DIGITS - DNN Learning and Training System. • Responsible for planning, creating and improving processes, oversight of project status and cross-project dependencies, managing risk, issues, requirements, design and solution to provide timely decision-making capacity. • Orchestrating open source contributions to Deep Learning frameworks such as Caffe, Torch, Theano, Tensorflow and others. • Acting as a sounding board for ideas and approaches both technical and at project level to enhance and contribute to program success. • The Deep Learning platform along with NVIDIA's Tesla and Tegra processors is revolutionizing the next generation of massively parallel computing and artificial intelligence apps in Data Center, Mobile and Embedded spaces. From 2015 to Present (less than a year) Senior Manager, Engineering @ • Managed a distributed team to develop RedSeal integrations with on-prem and cloud security appliance vendors (Amazon, VMWare, Cisco, Palo Alto, McAfee, Qualys etc). • Led the integration of AWS Config/EC2 from conception to final delivery in less than half the average time enabling it to be ready for demo at Amazon's re:invent conference. This made RedSeal a selected official partner announced at re:invent 2014. • Led the development of a next generation platform using a DSL based on Groovy to make integrations generic and scalable. This dramatically reduced sales cycles. • Worked on improving vendor liaisons that created new partnerships recognizing RedSeal’s technology increase by 33% (11) within 10 months. • Managed technical strategy, code inspection and reviews, evaluation and integration with SOAP/REST API's, monitoring code quality, performance and exploitability. • As Customer Success Manager (previous role), engaged with key customers to improve product placement and optimization that significantly improved CSAT and service renewals. Customized Salesforce.com to create and present reports of top pain points. From 2011 to 2015 (4 years) Technical Leader @ • Managed high profile customer engagements for product deployments in large enterprises and federal agencies. • Tirelessly worked to unblock issues with a large financial to help secure a multi-million dollar deal. Received special recognition for this effort. • Deployed Request Tracker (RT) for case tracking. Wrote PHP scripts to integrate with RT's MySQL backend to extract metrics and reports (pChart) about top N issues. • Designed and developed both GUI (Swing/JavaScript) and various backend modules (REST/Java/Spring/Velocity/Hibernate/Sybase) for provisioning Firewall configurations to and from Routers, Firewalls, IPS and VPN appliances. • Managed a geographically distributed team in San Jose, Austin, RTP and India. From 2006 to 2011 (5 years) Technical Consultant @ • As a key Technical Consultant, designed and developed the backend for a homegrown configurator software for Gateway.com portal and contact center application. Tech stack was Swing/RMI/Java/JBoss/Hibernate/MySQL & Oracle. • To allow richer online buying experience, enhanced the backend rules engine to include a Recommender system based on customer configurations. From 2005 to 2006 (1 year) Senior Software Engineer @ • Designed two key features (among many others) for a security management product - 1/ Feature to compress the number of perimeter filtering rules (ACEs) while still maintaining semantics. This helped SecOps teams to manage huge rule sets and keep their Firewalls and Routers running on top performance. 2/ Ability to define user understandable policies that administrators could then use to verify compliance with actual filtering rules. This feature was crucial in Firewall audits. • Tech stack was Java Applets/Swing/CORBA/Java/JDBC/Sybase. From 2000 to 2005 (5 years) Software Engineer @ • As a Software Engineer at Siemens, designed various modules for the telecom management software to manage Siemens EWSD and EWSX Telecom switches. • Tech stack was VC++/Win32 API/DCOM/ODBC/MS SQL Server/Oracle. From 1998 to 2000 (2 years) Master of Science (M.S.), Software Systems @ Birla Institute of Technology and Science From 2001 to 2002 Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science & Engineering @ Bangalore University From 1994 to 1998 Karthik Ramamurthy is skilled in: Software Development, Network Security, Cisco Technologies, Cloud Computing, Telecommunications, Networking, Agile Methodologies, Scrum, Management, Leadership, SaaS, Pre-sales, Java, Firewalls, Enterprise Software