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Karthik Raja Anandan

Software Engineer

Agentic systems, test automation, distributed backends. Founding engineer at Elas — eval frameworks, multi-agent routing, CI/CD. M.S. AI @ UC Santa Cruz (3.9). Python, C++, Java, Go.

Pleasanton, CA kanandan@ucsc.edu

M.S. in AI

UC Santa Cruz — 3.9 GPA

Founding Engineer

Elas — agentic AI across 10+ services

Test Automation & Quality

Eval frameworks, golden replay, 100% coverage, CI gates

Distributed Systems

Kafka, Spark, microservices — millions of events/day

Python, C++, Java, Go

Production systems across all four

Cloud & CI/CD

AWS ECS, Kubernetes, Argo, Jenkins, Docker

M.S. in Artificial Intelligence

University of California, Santa Cruz

Sep 2024 - Dec 2025 GPA: 3.9/4.0

B.E. in Computer Science

SSN College of Engineering

Aug 2019 - Aug 2023 GPA: 3.9/4.0

AI/ML Engineer (Founding Engineer)

Elas

Jan 2026 - Present Pleasanton, CA
Built 160-scenario test automation framework validating agentic AI correctness — eval suite with golden replay harness across routing, tool selection, and code generation
Designed routing engine with 100% test coverage and CI-enforced quality gates across 10+ specialized agents
Led development across 10+ repos (800+ commits); authored 168-page docs (57 service flows) and Argo CI/CD release pipelines on AWS ECS, Kubernetes
PythonAWS ECSKubernetesArgo CI/CDIntegration TestingMCP

AI Research Engineer

Samsung Research Capstone

Sep 2025 - Dec 2025 Santa Cruz, CA
Built autonomous GUI agent for long-horizon web task validation — event capture to record, replay, and verify multi-step agentic workflows
Developed automated test harnesses validating 1.5-bit quantized 32B Qwen across 2x RTX 3070 GPUs with regression testing
Designed validation pipelines for agent behavior — correctness checks on tool selection, scheduling, and task completion
PythonGUI AgentsvLLMQuantizationIntegration Testing

Software Development Engineer

Citi Corp

Aug 2023 - Sep 2024 Chennai, India
Architected event-driven microservices processing millions of events daily with integration tests for system-level correctness
Built CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Docker) improving deployment velocity by 20%
Designed automated data validation pipelines (Hadoop, Spark) cutting processing time by 25%; internal DSL for UI validation
JavaSpring BootKafkaHadoopSparkJenkinsDocker

NLP Engineering Intern

MultiOn (Stanford Startup)

Jun 2023 - Aug 2023 Palo Alto, CA
Shipped validated integration merged into LangChain (PR #12392); enhanced agentic system accuracy by 40%
Open source: Google Tunix #1552, LangChain #12392 (merged), Ivy #13280 (merged)
PythonLangChainVector DatabasesOpen Source

Distributed URL Shortener

Consistent hashing, Redis caching, AWS auto-scaling for high throughput.

GoRedisAWSDockerKubernetes

Real-Time Log Pipeline

Fault-tolerant ingestion with Kafka + Spark Streaming, PostgreSQL metrics.

KafkaSpark StreamingPostgreSQLREST APIs
Languages Python · C++ · Java · Go · JavaScript/TypeScript · Rust · SQL · Bash
Testing And Validation Test Automation Frameworks · Integration Testing · Golden Replay Harness · Regression Testing · CI/CD (Argo, Jenkins) · Code Review · Performance Validation
Agentic Ai And Dev Tools Multi-Agent Orchestration · LLMs · vLLM · PyTorch · LangChain · MCP Servers · RAG · Eval Pipelines · DeepEval · Langfuse · GRPO · DDP
Infrastructure Docker · Kubernetes · AWS (ECS, SQS) · Redis · PostgreSQL · Kafka · Distributed Computing · NLP