kartik saraswat
@kartiksaraswat
Senior distributed systems engineer focused on scalable disaster-recovery and cloud-native solutions.
IndiaWhat I'm looking for
I am a senior technical leader with over 8 years of experience building distributed systems and enterprise cloud technologies, with a strong customer-first approach. I have led large-scale disaster recovery initiatives, scaled monolithic Python services into stateless Go architectures, and delivered major performance and cost improvements for enterprise customers.
My achievements include a granted patent on disaster recovery pipelines, designing instant recovery solutions validated for large cloud environments, and mentoring architects while driving solutions that reduced latencies, memory usage, RTO, and licensing costs. I strive to build reliable, observable, and scalable systems and to coach teams to technical excellence.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Engineering Manager
Nutanix
Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 5 months)
Leading efforts to scale the enterprise disaster recovery solution to 25K VMs in one hour and mentoring architects in disaster recovery orchestration to improve operational resilience.
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Nutanix
Jan 2024 - Jan 2025 (1 year)
Scaled a monolithic Flask-based service to decentralized stateless Go services, reducing latencies by 40% and peak memory by 3x; migrated legacy APIs to 30+ OpenAPI/ gRPC services and added consistent snapshot support.
Member of Technical Staff 4
Nutanix
Jan 2022 - Jan 2024 (2 years)
Provided metro support for block storage enabling enterprise deals, built rate-limiting framework that cut RTO by 30 minutes, and designed app recovery pipelines for Kubernetes and file servers.
Member of Technical Staff 3
Nutanix
Jan 2019 - Jan 2022 (3 years)
Implemented failover idempotency at 2000+ apps scale avoiding customer overhead in 90% of cases, introduced compute-only nodes to cut Oracle licensing by one-third, and scaled batch recovery from 200 to 2K apps/hour.
Member of Technical Staff 2
Nutanix
Jan 2017 - Jan 2019 (2 years)
Built a Selenium-based UI test environment used by 20+ teams, created structured logging across DR services to reduce log scraping time from hours to minutes, and automated 300+ functional and UI tests.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal
Master of Computer Applications, Computer Applications
2014 - 2017
Grade: 9.3/10
Completed a Master of Computer Applications with a CGPA of 9.3/10 focused on advanced computing topics and distributed systems.
University of Delhi
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science
2011 - 2014
Grade: 8.3/10
Completed a Bachelor of Computer Science with a CGPA of 8.3/10 covering core computer science curricula.
Shadley Public School
Senior Secondary, Senior Secondary (CBSE)
2011 - 2011
Grade: 95/100
Completed Senior Secondary (CBSE) with 95% focusing on senior secondary academic curriculum.
Shadley Public School
Secondary, Secondary (CBSE)
2009 - 2009
Grade: 80/100
Completed Secondary (CBSE) with 80% covering general secondary education.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
IndiaAuthorized to work in
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