Karthiek Maralla is a seasoned software engineer with over 16 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, developer platforms, and AI infrastructure. He has held staff level engineering roles at Amazon, Visa, Cisco where he led initiatives across critical Platform , Cloud infrastructure, Security teams with diverse expertise across large scale distributed systems, Artificial Intelligence, big data and automation platforms powering mission-critical applications. Karthiek is passionate about advancing secure, scalable, and intelligent systems, and contributes to the broader engineering community through research and thought leadership in cloud computing and applied AI.