Summary
Vivek Karna is a Senior Data Engineer with nine years of experience building end-to-end ML and data systems, currently driving production data work at Humana after a stint as an SDE at Amazon. He has deep hands-on expertise across the machine learning development lifecycle—training NLP, fraud-detection, and churn models, creating model-monitoring dashboards, and designing distributed deployment pipelines. Vivek’s background blends product-facing data science (feature ideation, dashboards, and SDKs) with research-grade epidemiologic analysis from Indiana University, where he built a Python framework to parse large healthcare claims data on an HPC cluster. He has shipped tooling such as a model instrumentation package (aiq-agent) and scaled web-text extraction to millions of pages using Spark, reflecting a knack for operationalizing research into robust production systems. Based in Bloomington, Indiana, he pairs a formal Data Science master’s with a foundation in mechanical engineering, bringing pragmatic engineering discipline to complex ML problems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Data Science, Master's degree, Data Science at Indiana University Bloomington
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at Manipal Institute of Technology
English, Telugu, Hindi