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#about
I'm Karthikeyan Natarajan Gnanapalam — Karthik for short. I've been building software since 2008 and shipping it on the internet ever since. Born in Madurai, raised on bazaar logic and engineering textbooks, currently splitting time between Bengaluru and Dubai.
I optimize for structural advantage, autonomy, and compounding technological leverage. I think in mechanisms, not narratives. The systems that win are usually the boring ones.
These days I'm a full-time trader on perpetual futures markets — running my own quantitative models in public at feaws.xyz. The trading is the proof. The writing is the residue.
currently
- Full-time trader — perpetual futures markets (BTC + ETH primaries; rotation through alts)
- feaws.xyz — public quantitative trading lab; whitepaper + live trades
- Dailyvox — offline AI voice diary (iOS); the local-LLM testbed
previously
- CTO & CISO @ VisionPlus · stablecoin settlement infrastructure · 2025
- CTO @ Pi42 · Principal Officer with FIU-IND · 2022–2024
- Director of Engineering @ nference · BERT on 2.5PB healthcare data, HIPAA · 2021–2022
- Director of Engineering @ Sequoia Consulting · health insurance + payroll SaaS · 2019–2020
- Head of Tech @ Chumbak · custom ERP + B2C platforms · 2017–2019
- Founder/CEO, GazeMatic · Teleport Call VR app · 420k+ organic downloads · 2014–2018
- Founding engineer @ Perk.com Bangalore · Android apps for millions · 2012–2014
- Senior Engineer @ Symantec · cloud security automation · 2011–2012
books & talks
- Mobile Artificial Intelligence Projects · Packt, 2018
- Machine Learning for Mobile Applications · Packt, 2018
- TEDx · "Building under regulation" · 2017
- 18× hackathon wins · keynote speaker at 12+ tech conferences
education
- BE Computer Science · Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai · 2009
- MBA Computer Systems · Madurai Kamaraj University · 2012