Kartik Kolanukuduru

Kartik Pranav Kolanukuduru is a software engineer currently working at Twitter's Graph Storage Team in Seattle. He graduated with a B.Tech. in Computer Science from the esteemed Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2015. Kartik's expertise lies in developing large-scale distributed database systems, with a current focus on creating scalable solutions for graph-style databases handling billions of vertices and trillions of edges. Beyond work, Kartik enjoys recreational number theory, programming, gaming, and math puzzles. He is also an avid football (soccer) player and can solve a Rubik's cube in less than 14 seconds, even blindfolded, and is willing to teach others this skill.