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KARTHIK RAVISHANKER

Mountain View

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Tech Lead

LinkedIn
01.2025 - Current

Feed Detail Page Migration (Jul 2025 – Apr 2026)

  • Spearheaded migration of feed details page for over 100,000 daily active users from LinkedIn's legacy multi-client feed architecture to the server-driven UI (SDUI/Nile) framework across web, iOS, and Android platforms.
  • Drove higher traffic and adoption on the new Feed Detail experience versus the legacy page during public ramp rollout.
  • Built deeplink workflows: copy-link-to-comment, comment auto-scroll, identity switching, reaction facepiles, loading skeletons, and sponsored content handling.
  • Improved Feed Detail UX with desktop layouts, comment sorting, restricted-access handling, and responsive rendering.

Feed Observability Platform Migration (2025)

  • Led Feed observability strategy, telemetry, dashboards, blocker alerts, and quality signals critical for site uptime, feed quality, and on-call operations during Nile ramp-up.
  • Designed shared observability APIs enabling OTEL metrics and Geneva/Kusto telemetry, significantly improving production debugging and visibility.

AI-Native Engineering & Developer Productivity (2026)

  • Built AI-assisted workflows using Claude Code and Windsurf to accelerate debugging, experimentation analysis, and Feed operations.
  • Built Claude-based ticket triaging and experimentation workflows that significantly improved debugging speed, issue investigation, and on-call triage quality.

Senior Software Engineer, Front End

LinkedIn
01.2021 - 01.2025

Sponsored Video Ads Tracking (2023–2024)

  • Served as Web POC for sponsored tracking across Live Event Ads and Preroll Ads on Feed, supporting monetization for high-scale sponsored video experiences.
  • Implemented impression, MOAT, and action tracking to ensure advertiser attribution, engagement measurement, monetization accuracy, and billing.
  • Enabled reliable telemetry for sponsored videos over organic content and live event ad experiences, improving production readiness and tracking parity.
  • Enabled Event Ads (~$49.5M annualized) based on last-90-day revenue run rates.

Ads Rendering & Monetization Enablement (2022–2024)

  • Built and rendered advertiser-facing ad formats across desktop and mobile web, including Document Ads, Thought Leader Ads, and personalized sponsored experiences.
  • Took ownership of Document LGF Ads on mobile web, expanding a scoped feature into a cross-stack effort spanning frontend rendering, shared UI libraries, and backend integrations.
  • Delivered Project Palette, rendering personalized Feed ad UI based on member preferences and behavioral signals using reusable, composable frontend components.
  • Delivered Lead Gen Form email capture across Web, iOS, and Android supporting a 22.4% projected FY24 revenue target; enabled Thought Leader Ads (~$380M annualized).

Principal Applications Engineer

Oracle
01.2012 - 01.2020
  • Built enterprise-scale Oracle Fusion HCM UI/rendering frameworks, enabling configurable workflows, extensible schemas, and customer customization at scale.
  • Developed responsive workforce management experiences (ADF/JSF) with reusable UI components and configurable assignment workflows.
  • Built dynamic UI customization frameworks using DOM traversal, HTML/JSP templating, and runtime component generation for customer-specific layouts and workflows.
  • Developed reusable self-service employee experiences with responsive layouts and configurable workforce management flows used across Oracle HCM.

Education

M.S. - Information Technology (Software Engineering)

Carnegie Mellon University
05-2011

B.Tech - Information Technology

Anna University
05-2008

Skills

  • Languages: Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, GraphQL
  • Frontend: React, Emberjs, HTML, CSS, Server-Driven UI (SDUI), Responsive Web Development
  • Backend & Platform: GraphQL, gRPC, distributed systems, Kotlin DSL, REST APIs
  • Observability & Infrastructure: OTEL, Observe, Geneva/Kusto, dashboards, alerting
  • AI-Native Engineering: Claude Code, Windsurf, AI debugging & triage workflows

Timeline

Tech Lead

LinkedIn
01.2025 - Current

Senior Software Engineer, Front End

LinkedIn
01.2021 - 01.2025

Principal Applications Engineer

Oracle
01.2012 - 01.2020

B.Tech - Information Technology

Anna University

M.S. - Information Technology (Software Engineering)

Carnegie Mellon University
KARTHIK RAVISHANKER