Karthik Shivkumar
Co-Founder at Certikat
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarthik Shivkumar is a Senior Data Scientist in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of experience turning messy data into clear, decision-ready stories and production systems. He has led pricing, portfolio optimization and growth initiatives at Opendoor and now applies those skills at Lime, combining statistical rigor with pragmatic engineering to scale models in production. Comfortable across the stack, he builds pipelines with tools like dbt and Airflow, crafts visuals in Tableau/ggplot/D3, and runs rigorous A/B tests and ML models to inform leadership decisions. His background spans fraud risk at AWS to marketing attribution at Verizon Media, giving him a rare mix of real-time risk, marketing analytics, and portfolio optimization expertise. Active on GitHub and with a masters in Data Analytics Engineering, he often surfaces non-obvious signals through visualization to illuminate “invisible” drivers behind business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Mechanical Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityMaster’s Degree Data Analytics Engineering, Master’s Degree Data Analytics Engineering at George Mason University
English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, German
Github Skills (16)
github-api10
linux9
bash9
command-line-tool9
shell8
go8
rust8
macos8
git8
homebrew8
agentic8
zsh8
hyperterm4
hyper-terminal3
animation2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
karthikskumar/karthikskumar.github.io
Sep 2016 - Aug 2025
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 1 month
karthikskumar/morti
Sep 2018 - May 2025
Contributions:6 pushes in 6 years 9 months
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