Karthik Salicheemala

+91-9738300202
karthiks416@gmail.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Skillset:

Primary skillset: Javascript, NodeJS, Mongodb, MySQL

Secondary Skillset: Solidity

Experience Working With : AWS, Java, Apache Kafka, Redis

Self Employed &Entrepreneurial Journey

Aug’21 – Present
● In this journey, I wore multiple hats and learnt a few things.
● Participated in coding challenges by Topcoder, where some of the best coders in the world compete and won a few.
● Worked on time series challenge with a hedge fund manager using python and competed on microprediction.com. My algorithm
raked up to position 3 over time.
● conducted coding bootcamp for 7 students for 6 months without any fee which made me to start NodeJSAcademy.com, a
dedicated portal for NodeJS ecosystem and to offer coding bootcamps at affordable pricing. Launched a couple of courses and
reached 3000 students from 100+ countries with a average rating of 4.2.
● Helped a singapore based firm talentlabs with code mentoring and grading.
● Delivered training for simplilearn on NodeJS and Mongoand received one of the highest ratings.
● Started with blockchain during Indian Blockchain week in 2022-December. Learnt Solidity language, went through berkeley’s
MOOC. Done CTFs and explored MEV.

CISCO
The leading Networking company

Engineer.Software Engineering Jan’18 – Jul‘21

● Joined during Broadsoft transition to CISCO and worked on Broadcloud products.
● Worked on PAAS console using Java, springboot and NodeJS. Responsible for writing wrappers, CRs , integration tests etc..

Techjini - A Datamatics company

Bangalore, India
A subsidiary of Datamatics

Tech Lead Feb’16 – Nov ‘17

● Led a 5-member team and worked with client, Storeking, the Amazon for rural India.
● Worked on version 2 release into production and used MEAN stack.

SRS Business Solutions

A subsidiary of SRS Consulting Inc. with 200 employees

Senior Developer April’14 – Dec ‘15

● Part of a 7-member team comprising five developers and two quality analysts engaged with client, CISCO, the world leader in
Networking and IT services with $46.5B in annual revenues.
● Coordinating geographically distributed teams to develop Cisco Knowledge Suite, a social learning product of CISCO.
● Worked on Cisco learning kit and responsible for developing APIs using NodeJS, ElasticSearch, Apache Kafka
● Selected as the youngest lead to represent team in SOS (scrum of Scrums). Improved application performance by 80% by
reducing API response time from 230ms to 43ms that solved the major issue raised by a client.

Ness Software Services

A leading custom software development company with 3500 employees and USD 170M in annual revenues

Senior Software Engineer Jun’13 – Jan’14

● Worked with Merci team for Amadeus: an IT provider for global travel industry. Enhanced mobile frontend of airlines; reduced
mobile app loading times using aria templates and Java.
● Spearheaded critical engagements with Singapore Airlines and Saudi Airlines. Collaborated with various cross-functional teams
across France and Germany to resolve production issues.

WIPRO Technologies Bangalore, India

Fourth largest IT & ITeS Company in India with 160000 employees and FY’15 revenues of USD 7.5B

Software Engineer - Architecture Team Dec’09 – Jun’13

● Worked as a part of a 9-member architecture team for Base, a product worth $100MM in annual revenues
● Involved in doing POCs as part of architecture team on new features and integrations.
● Worked on Harmony project as backend dev using NodeJS, which was latest at the time.
● Appreciated by Vice-President for resolving Document Viewer and CMS issues which were highly impacting the SLA between
WIPRO and Arcelor Mittal

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EDUCATION

Siddharth Institute of Engineering & Technology (Affiliated to JNTU) Puttur, India

B.Tech, Electronics and Communication Engineering,
(Secured 72.2%, passed with distinction and ranked among top-5% of class) Aug’04 – May’08

Board of Intermediate Education Tirupati, India

MPC
(Secured 91.8%, scored 96% in first year and was among top 10 rankers(out of 1 million) in the state of AP)
June’02 – May’04

ACTIVITIES
● Passionate runner, participated in 10k runs
● School Achievements: Secured 1st prize in elocution competition conducted by Human Rights Commission, received prize from
Supreme Court Chief Justice in 2000. Secured second prize in dramatics in 2002 and received prize from the Honorable Minister
of Cultural affairs; directed a play for the annual day celebrations during undergraduate studies.

Karthik salicheemala
Date: 14/02/2023
Place: Bangalore, India