Karthik is an Engineering Manager at Uber. He was the Lead Engineer on the Twilio Understand team. He’s working hard to build and scale out the Understand product line, its Machine Learning systems and infrastructure. Ever since his Master of Science degree from Georgia Tech, he’s been wandering around the Valley making stops at various large boring companies and small frustrating ones, before finding his home at Twilio. He enjoys the excruciating pain of decoding cryptic ML research papers and the joys of aesthetically built data pipelines.