Experience

Fisdom

• India
• Financial Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Feb 2022 - Present

  Bengaluru, Karnataka, India



Mozilla

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Volunteer

  • Mar 2017 - Present

  India My role involves the following activities - # Deliver talks on Web extension & Web VR # Engage in Open Source Projects # Host & Walkthrough Hackathons # Invited as a Mentor/Session Facilitator for few Hackathons/Events # Delivered talks at NIT Trichy, MIT Madras, & other colleges/events # Grow and build sustainable Open Source Communities around Tamil Nadu # Community Building & Evangelism Mozillian Profile - https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/balaji2198/

• Feature Board Member

  • Dec 2017 - Jun 2018

  Feature Board consist a total of 7 Members from the Global Mozilla Community. My responsibility includes nominating an add-on / Vote the nominated add-ons (in terms of developer experience, API used and security) to be featured on the addons.mozilla.org website. check out the detailed roles & responsibility here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/AMO/Featured_Board_Process



Siemens

• Germany
• Automation Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jan 2020 - Feb 2022

  Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Team: Common Components - Actively working on the DB Mirroring functionality in the User Profile Selection Service - Worked on migrating the database to a newer version without loss of data - Contributing to upstream code-base with Bug-Fixes and performance improvements to solve business problems



UMM Digital

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineering Intern

  • Dec 2018 - Jan 2019

  Chennai Area, India Worked as a Python Backend Developer # Built scalable API endpoints following blueprints approach and Implemented async background tasks on the server using Celery. # Developed database models and populated the DB for a specific module. # Technological stack: Python3, Flask, Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL



Zulip, Inc. (2012-2014)

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Open Source Developer

  • Oct 2017 - Aug 2018

  Zulip is a fully open source group chat that combines the immediacy of Slack with an email threading model. Company’s website: zulipchat.com. Technological stack: Python, Django, JavaScript, Tornado, PostgreSQL, Vagrant, Git, Linux. # Made a number of contributions to github.com/zulip/zulip (core Zulip server and web interface) and github.com/zulip/zulip-js (Javascript library to access the Zulip API). # Developed an integration with GoCD (Go or GoCD is an open source tool… Show more Zulip is a fully open source group chat that combines the immediacy of Slack with an email threading model. Company’s website: zulipchat.com. Technological stack: Python, Django, JavaScript, Tornado, PostgreSQL, Vagrant, Git, Linux. # Made a number of contributions to github.com/zulip/zulip (core Zulip server and web interface) and github.com/zulip/zulip-js (Javascript library to access the Zulip API). # Developed an integration with GoCD (Go or GoCD is an open source tool which is used in software development to achieve continuous delivery of software. It supports automating the entire build-test-release process from code check-in to deployment.). # Fixed various bugs in the Zulip web app. Show less



Teggnet

• United Kingdom
• Retail

• Software Engineering Intern

  • May 2018 - Jul 2018

  Teggnet is a user generated visual search engine build for an ultimate online shopping experience. Teggnet utilises the user generated content and uses complex technology, process and business model to deliver simple solutions to our users/ brands. My role as an Intern involved the following - # Increased the Flow type coverage from 60% to 85% # Built excellent modern, modular, interactive & responsive UI & UX # Contributed in data mining project to scrape pages of Wikipedia… Show more Teggnet is a user generated visual search engine build for an ultimate online shopping experience. Teggnet utilises the user generated content and uses complex technology, process and business model to deliver simple solutions to our users/ brands. My role as an Intern involved the following - # Increased the Flow type coverage from 60% to 85% # Built excellent modern, modular, interactive & responsive UI & UX # Contributed in data mining project to scrape pages of Wikipedia using python beautiful soup and LXML # Worked on the back-end using NextJS, Redux-Saga and MongoDB as database Show less



Google

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Google Code-In Mentor

  • Nov 2017 - Jan 2018

  Google Code-in is an annual programming competition hosted by Google Inc. that allows pre-university students to complete tasks specified by various, partnering open source organizations. Mentored the pre-university students to do beginner tasks related to Coding, Documentation, Testing, Outreach and User Interface and mentor individually to make first contributions to open source.