Karthik P

VP of Engineering

databahn.ai

Jan 2026 - Current (10 months)

Sr Director of Engineering - Retailer Copilot & Incubation

CommerceIQ

Oct 2022 - Jan 2026 (3 years 4 months)

• Executive Leadership: Managed cross-functional teams of 70+ (Engineering, Support, Ops) across 5 product lines, maintaining technical ownership of 70% of total company revenue.
• Architectural Transformation: Spearheaded a major migration from Snowflake to Databricks, achieving a 30% reduction in infrastructure costs and transitioning from fragmented databases to a streamlined multi-tenant model.
• Product Stabilization: Re-engineered the core ESM product by replacing crawling-based data collection with API-based downloads and same-day Vendor Central sync, significantly reducing downtime and improving data reliability for retailers.
• AI & Innovation: Built an Agentic Platform from scratch, leading the successful launch of

Principal Engineering Manager

Microsoft

May 2021 - Oct 2022 (1 year 6 months)

Improving Autofill experience in MS Edge
• Streamlined and improved the existing manual process followed to measure improvements to Autofill precision and Recall
• Identified and made several micro improvements to improve metrics for tracking and measuring issues with Autofill. This helped improve the Precision and Recall from 87/86 to 95/96, Autofill in Edge adoption from 27.5% to 40%.
• Enhanced Ondemand autofill and Custom Data capabilities to increase average data saved in the browser by users
• Led the Autofill service scaling effort to move from 35-40K QPS to 95-200K QPS

Senior Engineering Manager

Samsung

Mar 2019 - Apr 2021 (2 years 2 months)

• Managing multiple development teams owning most of the backend of Samsung ECommerce EStore for 15 countries which make up 70% of the overall Samsung eStore sales globally.
• Managing the Mobile App development team owning the Samsung Shop app for India
• Managing the DevOps team owning the infrastructure for the SWA region
• Spearheaded the technical rollout of the estore for GBR. Worked on site in the front lines during the UAT and rollout phase ensuring a smooth rollout which became the foundation for the rest of the EU rollouts

Engineering Manager

Samsung

May 2016 - Mar 2019 (2 years 11 months)

• Managed the Backend Engineering team responsible for Orders, Reverse Logistics, Pricing and Promotions for the US market.
• My team was responsible for replacing Samsung's existing third party E Commerce estore(based on DigitalRiver) with our home grown platform. It was built from the scratch and pushed to production in less than a quarter.
• Responsible for supporting some of the major strategic initiatives taken for Samsung ECom US which include TradeIn, Premium Care, and Financing.
• Owned the backend for Global rollout for new markets which required customization of the US platform with local integrations and country specific features.

Development Lead

Xome

Jan 2015 - Apr 2016 (1 year 4 months)

Auction platform:
• Was part of the team which built the product from scratch. The project was written in Python using flask and celery.
• Developed a framework to allow for JSON data to be represented with relationships with a graph-based model. The framework allowed for retrieval of related data from the API endpoint based on the model relationship without adding new code.
RWebsite:
• Developed basic infra for building responsive web pages in an existing asp.net website.
XomePro:
• Lead a team of 4 to build a transaction management solution backend for real estate agents.
• The project was written on Nodejs using Hapi

Member of Technical Staff - 3

Groupon

Apr 2013 - Jan 2015 (1 year 10 months)

Managed the Online Booking team in Chennai. Our team was responsible for the development of notifications and 3rd party integrations for Groupon Local Online Booking products. We used RoR and MySql for development of our services.
Was one of the earliest members of the Online Booking team and have a thorough understanding of the end to end flow of the booking process. Unified the deployment process of all Online Booking services by making use of Groupon's internal frameworks - Skeletor and Roller.

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Development Lead

GlobalScholar

Jan 2013 - Apr 2013 (4 months)

Lead the team responsible for the assignment and assessment portion of Personalized Learning experience.
• Coming up with the architectural design and the data model and tracking the progress of the team
Lead the team working on the mobile/tablet friendly web experience for the platform.
• Investigation and proof of concept code in type script
• Approach for optimization of data transfer between the browser and web server using the existing ajax methods used for desktop experience

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Senior Software Engineer

GlobalScholar

Jan 2011 - Dec 2012 (2 years)

Lead QFE team
• Quick Fix Engineering team is the technical support team for Instruction which handles all the customer related issues as well as ad-hoc requests raised with immediate deadlines
• Lead a team of 4-8 members throughout an academic year delivering hotfixes, datafixes and workaround tools.
Training for new joinees
• Holding the responsibility for the training/rampup of new joinees in Instruction development team.
• Worked out a training program which includes a documentation overview of our system as well as a thoroughly laid out list of tasks to get them up to speed.
Interaction with external clients/vendors
• Facilitated the development of mobile client for Instruction which was outsourced t

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Software Development Engineer

GlobalScholar

Jul 2008 - Dec 2010 (2 years 6 months)

Offline Assessment administration
• Involved in the development of paper based assessment administration and scoring
• The project was aimed at improving upon the traditional OMR sheets and providing the option to answer descriptive responses by students
• The teachers were provided with an option to mark the scores in the sheets itself for the descriptive type questions which would automatically be scored and saved into the system.
• The project was done in C#, ASP.Net using Pegasus components for the pdf related tasks.
• The users are provided with the option for various layouts to optimize the space usage as required.
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