Masters in Computer Science, University of Southern California
Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com
Download CVHello! I am Karthik Natarajan. I'm a Masters gradaute in Computer Science from University of Southern California.
I'm currently working as a Software Development Engineer for Amazon.com. I've previously worked as a Frontend Engineer for CSSE(Center for Systems and Software Engineering) at USC, Member of Technical Staff- Intern at VMware Inc. and Software Engineer Intern for the MIT Media Lab.
2017 - 2019
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Pursued a Masters degree in Computer Science at University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Completed coursework - Analysis of Algorithms, Programming Systems Design, Web Technologies, Computer Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval, Operating Systems, Database Systems and Software Management and Economics.
2013 - 2017
SRM University, Chennai, India
Pursued a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from SRM University in Chennai, India
Relevant Coursework - Computer Architechture, Digital Sytstems desgin, Digital Signal Processing, Computer Networks, Embedded Systems
Spring 2016
Massachusetts Insitute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Completed a semester as a visiting student at MIT for Spring 2016. Worked as a Software Intern for the MIT Media Lab under the Human Dynamics Group
Completed courses - Computational Structures , Intro to Computational Thinking and Data Science (A), Engineering Innovation and Desing, Entrepreneurship in Engineering
June 2020 - Present
Currently working with the India Consumables team at Amazon, as Software Development Engineer.
September 2019 - June 2020
Working with the Center for Systems and Software Engineering(CSSE), USC, as frontend developer performing UI enhancements, bug fixes and implementing new features for the SQUAAD (Software Quality Understanding by Analysis of Abundant Data) web application - that allows users to analyze different quality metrics of software systems as it evolves over time.
May 2019 - August 2019
Worked with the vSphere UI team to develop a UI feature for the vSphere Web Client – VMware’s cloud computing virtualization platform. The feature introduced theming for vCenter servers in the web client, allowing users to differentiate between different vSphere environments in the application. Wrote unit and end to end tests for the feature. Feature went into production, subsequently being released to a small set of users for feedback in VMware Fling.
March 2016 - July 2016
Worked with the Human Dynamics group, MIT Media Lab, supervised by Abdullah M. Almaatouq (Research Assistant) under the guidance of Alex 'Sandy' Pentland(Professor of Media Arts and Sciences). Researched different mechanisms in Game Theory which promote and maintain human cooperation and its relative efficiency in sustaining the cooperation. Designed an online experiment where human participants interacted with bot confederates in a 10-round public goods game (PGG). Built a dynamic responsive web application for the online experiment. Developed the user interface for the application using HTML, CSS and MeteorJS. Used MongoDB to store player data. Web application was later configured to work with Amazon Mechanical Turk using MTurk API’s to incentivize volunteers to play the online game.
