Karthik Palaniappan

Karthik Palaniappan's work experience includes serving as the CPTO & Co-Founder at Handl Health since January 2023. Prior to this, they worked at Facebook as a Senior Software Engineer from January 2021 to October 2022, where they contributed to the development of the platform for independent creators to write email newsletters. Karthik was also responsible for leading the technical aspects of creator-subscriber engagement. Before Facebook, Karthik worked at Google as a Senior Software Engineer from December 2016 to January 2021. During their time at Google, they played a key role as a technical lead on Google Cloud Dataproc, focusing on autoscaling Spark, Hive, and Hadoop workloads. Karthik's career started at Dell EMC, where they worked as a Software Engineer from April 2015 to November 2016.

Karthik Palaniappan earned their Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Washington between the years 2012 and 2015.