How to turn your 1000x engineer into a 10x everyone | LinkedIn’s Karthik Ramgopal

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Andrew interviews LinkedIn's Karthik Ramgopal about deploying AI memory and engineering practices in large organizations.

This week, Andrew sits down with LinkedIn Distinguished Engineer Karthik Ramgopal to explore the reality of deploying agentic platforms across a massive organization. Karthik unpacks the mechanics of AI memory, spanning procedural and episodic structures, and explains how to build durable engineering primitives that actually last. Finally, the two discuss the enduring importance of system fundamentals and why LinkedIn is restructuring its internship program into AI-native pods to foster a new...

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Host: Andrew

Guest: Karthik Ramgopal

Topics covered

• AI memory
• engineering primitives
• system fundamentals
• internship program
• agentic platforms

Keywords

• AI memory
• engineering
• LinkedIn
• internship program
• system fundamentals
• agentic platforms

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Organizations: LinkedIn

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