Karthik
12.9716°N · 77.5946°E
BENGALURU, INDIA
SYSTEM SIGNAL  ·  EST. 2013
KARTHIK
I build systems that earn trust at scale.
Enterprise Architect  ·  Technical Product Manager  ·  Platform Builder
11+ Years of Practice
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15+ Engineers Led
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10+ Platforms Built
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4 Domains

What I Do

Enterprise Architecture

TOGAF-informed roadmaps. Capability maps linked to OKRs. ArchiMate models that get used. Governance that enables rather than gates.

Technical Product Management

End-to-end product lifecycle from discovery to scale. API-as-a-product. Dual-track agile. GTM alignment. The full span from whiteboard to production.

Platform Engineering

Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, event-driven systems. I build the thing and architect the thing. That combination matters in high-stakes delivery.


Selected Work

Not a ticker of metrics. Real problems that needed systems designed for trust.

TaxChain / PID

EU VAT compliance platform with cryptographic proof of intracommunity delivery. SAP S/4HANA integration, regulator portals, immutable audit trails. Designed for the gap between commerce and scrutiny.

80%+ fraud reduction · European Tax Summit 2022

Roaming Settlement

AI-powered CDR reconciliation converting months of manual settlement into real-time automated workflows. Blockchain-anchored receipts. Built because revenue was leaking and nobody was watching.

~60% OPEX reduction · 30% faster dispute resolution

Neuralic

Open-source AI observability platform. Policy stores, lineage graphs, explainability interfaces, red-team harnesses. Built because enterprises were deploying AI with no accountability layer.

Founder/Architect · Reference implementation for AI auditability

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Currently Building

Neuralic

AI governance patterns, lineage tracking, policy-as-code. Making responsible AI deployment something you can actually implement, not just talk about.

Operary

Industrial event-to-SOP coordination engine. API-first, verifiable shifts, compliance analytics for manufacturing operations. Running.

MBA — AI for Business

BITS Pilani WILP. Because the gap between architecture and business strategy is where things go wrong, and I intend to close it permanently.


The Thinking

The work is downstream of a set of beliefs about what systems are for.

Product is the interface between systems and meaning. Signal is the structure beneath the noise.

Eleven years of building compliance-grade platforms in blockchain, AI, and payments has produced a clear operating philosophy: clarity scales, ambiguity decays, and trust has to be engineered — not assumed.

The creative and philosophical dimensions — the blueprints, the speculative systems, the frameworks published in public — are not separate from the enterprise work. They are how I stay sharp on the questions that the client work doesn’t always let you ask.

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