About Me

Balasubramanian Karthik

I am a Data enthusiast. My passion is to identify the actionable information from noisy data that can bolster the business needs. My fascination is always about the beautiful human mind and learning about it will be my life-time project. I run in my free time. Follow me on Strava!

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My Career

Adobe Systems

I work as a growth Data engineer to gather customer experiences in digital products that provides sound recommendations to Product Marketing/Management and Customer Success stakeholders

May 2019
Data Engineer, Product & Customer Analytics

Marketo, An Adobe Company

My primary works involves in large scale data migrations, Optimizing and evaluating replication and migration tools for our customers to undergo Zero down time migrations.

October 2017
Associate Software Engineer, Tools and Infrastructure

Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University

I am pursing my degree yet at CMU with focus in Data Science and analytics. I am graduating in May 2017.

May. 2017
Graduate student, Masters in Information Systems Managementhead

DataSpark Analytics, Singapore

As a Software Engineer, I developed in-house tools for the company. I developed a tool which allows user to configure Spark jobs in YAML from a user friendly interface.

May. 2016
Software Engineering Intern

Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai

As an Assistant Systems Engineer, I individualy handles large scale ETL projects integrating between in-house applications of a retailer to a third party cloud CRM.

Jun. 2013
Assistant Systems Engineer

SRM University, Chennai

I graduated from SRM University on May 2013 with Bachelors in Information Technology

Jul. 2013
Student

My Skills

Databases


Machine Learning/ Algorithms


OS and Networking


Distributed Systems


Web App & API Dev


Scripting


EDA & Data Viz


My Projects

Airbnb Price Prediciton

This tool predicts the price of an Airbnb listing based on a its features, locational significance and competitor pricing. In addition, it provides information like other nearby Airbnb listing price stats and advertisement suggestions.

SparkGen

SparkGen is a tool which automates Spark job configuration. It reverse engineers the Java Spark Jobs and exposes the internals in the user interface. The internals when selected by the user is recorded to a dynamic configuration file.

Altair-Viz

Altair-Viz is a new upcoming visualisation library. I have written a getting-started tutorial which gives a brief history about descriptive programming languages and evolution of visualisation libraries that resulted in the formation of Altair-Viz

How are Taxis enhancing the Singapore's Public Transport System?

A project to understand if the supply pattern of taxicabs fill the gaps in the public transport network in the city state - Singapore


My Blog