Keshav Karanth

Summary

Senior software engineer with ~6 years of experience shipping customer-facing products at Amazon and Workday. Primary owner of Workday Everywhere chat integrations (Microsoft Teams and Slack) — where employees approve time off, complete tasks, and interact with AI assistants without leaving collaboration tools. Full-stack and platform delivery across TypeScript/React, Node.js, and AWS; led org-wide security compliance programs, modularized AI agent infrastructure, and paid down structural debt before major roadmap bets. 340+ delivery tickets at 90%+ completion; 1,400+ commits across 22 repositories.

Experience

Workday — Software Development Engineer

• Own end-to-end features on Workday for Microsoft Teams: unified task inbox, calendar, learning, diagnostics, production deploys, and security hardening.
• Led onboarding of Slack and Teams to a company-wide task service with feature-flagged migration and fallback paths.
• Modularized the AI agents codebase into domain submodules for parallel team shipping; integrated chat surfaces with agent orchestration backends.
• Authored AI threat models (Ask Workday / AI assistant) with security architects.
• Program lead for org-wide secrets management audit across 12+ repos. Delivered npm/CDK vulnerability fixes, cache-control, and DoS protections.
• Resolved Teams circular dependency structural debt to unblock AI and MyTasks roadmap.

Amazon — Software Development Engineer

• Migrated internal LMS from Rails monolith to React frontends and service-oriented Rails APIs.
• Built and operated AWS production services (EC2, S3, CDK/TypeScript); automated onboarding for 1,500+ internal users.
• Drove front-end architecture and Figma-to-dev workflow for a multi-team platform.

Education

University of Southern California (Viterbi) — M.S., Computer Science | May 2020

M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology — B.E., Information Science & Engineering | May 2018

Technical Skills