Karthik Gandhi on Clubhouse

Bio

🚀 Engineering Leadership @ Stripe

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🦄 Ex-(Uber | Microsoft | Grab | Argo AI | VMware)
🤘Founder of an NLP startup

## Professional Experience:
🐧 Contributed to Linux kernel
🤖 Built self-driving cars and trucks
📀 Built distributed databases
📈 Built marketplace optimization systems such as dynamic pricing, supply and demand shaping strategies

## Education:
🎓University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Distributed Systems)
🎓Stony Brook University, New York (Computer Science and Engineering)

## Hobbies:
🤿 Scuba Diving (explored the Great Barrier Reef once)
⛷ Skier (Love Whistler, BC)
🚣 Kayaking and L5 rafting
🏔 Hiker (2xHalf Dome)
🪢 Rappelling
❄️ Ice Climbing (Sólheimajökull)

## Network:
🔗 LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/karthikbalaji/

## Volunteer work:
🐍 Teach Python and microbit to underprivileged kids
⚽️ Coach new managers through Plato

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