Karthik Kumar

Principal Engineer

Karthik Kumar is a Principal Engineer at Microsoft, bringing over 18 years of expertise in performance engineering, in-memory databases, hardware-software co-design, memory tiering, and scale-up systems. Previously, Karthik served as a Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation from 2010 to 2025 and taught a graduate course on Big Data Computing as an Adjunct Faculty at Arizona State University in 2015. Karthik earned both a Doctor of Philosophy and a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Purdue University between 2006 and 2011.

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Chandler, United States

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