Aditya Karnik - Resume | Technology Lead, GenAI & Python

Professional Summary

Technology Lead with 10+ years of experience designing, architecting, and delivering full-stack solutions and AI integrations. Skilled at operating in ambiguous, high-stakes environments, leading rapid prototyping efforts, and mentoring cross-functional engineering teams. Deep expertise across the Python ecosystem (Django, Flask, FastAPI, PySpark), data architecture (SQL/NoSQL optimization), and cloud/container deployment. Experienced in aligning emerging technologies with business strategy and turning them into production-ready workflows.

Core Competencies

Architect & Deliver: End-to-end system design, rapid prototyping, scalable frameworks, and API design.
Data Architecture: Database schema design and optimization, high-volume ETL architecture, distributed computing.
Agility & Influence: Operating in ambiguity, stakeholder collaboration, use-case translation, technical documentation.

AI R&D: Chatbot integration (Rasa API), machine learning foundations, AI-assisted workflow design.
Engineering Excellence: Team management and mentorship, code governance, pull request review, technical standards.
DevOps & Virtualization: Docker containerization, Kubernetes deployment, cloud infrastructure management.

Technical Skills

Languages: Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL
Frameworks and Libraries: Django, Flask, FastAPI, PySpark, Pandas, NumPy, Selenium, RESTful APIs, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search
Data Architecture: PostgreSQL, Oracle DB, MongoDB, ETL Pipeline Design, Query Optimization
Cloud and DevOps: Amazon AWS (EC2, Lambda, IAM, Boto), Microsoft Azure (Azure AI Studio, Azure AI Search), Docker, Kubernetes (Hands-on), Git, ELK Stack
Emerging Technology and AI: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Token-aware Chunking, Vector Indexing, Rasa AI Chatbots, AI-Assisted Development, Computer Vision/OCR (Tesseract, Python OCR)

Professional Experience

Lead - Synechron Technologies

Oct 2023 - Present | Pune, India

GenAI Incubation: Architected and built a proof-of-concept Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solution on Microsoft Azure using Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, and Python to generate context-aware responses from enterprise documents.
AI Data Pipeline: Built end-to-end workflows for document preprocessing, token-aware chunking, embedding generation, and vector indexing; used Azure AI Studio to deploy OpenAI GPT models and validate document-grounded conversational AI.
Architect & Deliver: Built a distributed ETL pipeline in PySpark and Python to ingest ~70 GB of daily market data (JSON) into an Oracle database, delivering the project in 5 weeks under tight deadlines.
Performance Architecture: Designed a FastAPI-based service and optimized performance-critical SQL queries with complex joins, enabling sub-second single-record retrieval from a ~50 TB dataset.
Next-Gen Workflow: Built an internal framework that let non-technical stakeholders configure outputs (email, Excel, CSV, PDF) without writing code, reducing End User Computing (EUC) overhead.
Engineering Excellence: Led a cross-functional team of 8 developers; ran daily standups, delegated tasks, reviewed pull requests, and enforced code quality through regular reviews.
Influence & Mentor: Trained and mentored developers on project workflows and standards; authored Confluence documentation and technical guides, earning three internal awards for delivery and collaboration.

Senior Software Engineer - Colt Technologies

Sep 2019 - Oct 2023 | Bengaluru, India

Scalable Web Solutions: Built and owned a Django-based web portal to automate tariff requests and customer onboarding, scaling it to support 600+ active users.
Process Automation: Replaced email-based communication with a tracked form system featuring automated notifications and Docker containerization; cut a monthly reconciliation workflow down to 15 minutes while improving audit transparency.
AI Integration R&D: Prototyped chatbot integrations within web services using the Rasa API.
Data Architecture: Reviewed requirements and solution architecture for 10+ large-scale ETL projects, resolving data issues and optimizing database schemas to prevent operational disruptions.
Governance & Onboarding: Set code review guidelines and trained incoming developers on company standards; wrote technical documentation to streamline knowledge transfer.

Senior Software Developer - Cocoslabs Innovative Solution

Jul 2016 - Sep 2019 | Bengaluru, India

Rapid Prototyping: Delivered full-stack features end-to-end, from design to production deployment, using Flask, Django, and JavaScript in a fast-paced startup environment, consistently meeting deadlines.
Database & Infrastructure: Designed and optimized relational schemas in PostgreSQL and managed unstructured data in MongoDB using flask-mongoengine; integrated the ELK stack for centralized log monitoring.
Cloud Architecture: Managed AWS infrastructure, including EC2 instances and IAM permissions, and automated workflows with serverless Lambda and Boto scripts.
Emerging Tech Prototyping: Built a nose-print identification system for cattle insurance claims using Python OCR libraries, replacing fraud-prone ear tags.
Cross-Platform Development: Moved into mobile development to design and build the "My Safe Society" app, shipping 10+ Android applications for rapid incident reporting (fire, water damage, accidents).

Certifications

RAG in Azure with OpenAI and ChatGPT LLM - UdemyJuly 2026
Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Machine Learning - LinkedIn LearningFeb 2022
Business Writing Principles - LinkedIn LearningNov 2020
Python for Data Science and AI - CourseraApr 2020
Project in DevOps - Build Real World Processes - UdemyOct 2018

Education

Master of Computer Applications (MCA) - JSPM Narhe Technical Campus2016
Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) - Gokhale Education Society2013