Balaji B
Software Engineer Ll at HashiCorp
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolBalaji B is a software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable backend and full-stack systems, currently focused on infrastructure and distributed systems as a Software Engineer II at HashiCorp. He has a strong track record optimizing performance and databases across startups and enterprise teams, including DB migrations and mirroring work at Siemens and product improvements at Fisdom. An active open-source contributor, Balaji has improved the Zulip web app’s UX and integrations and mentors through Mozilla and Google Code-In, reflecting a blend of production engineering and community leadership. He favors algorithmic rigor—writing time- and space-efficient solutions—and spends much of his free time contributing to OSS and exploring new technologies. Based in Bengaluru, he combines hands-on implementation with a knack for shipping reliable systems that serve millions of users.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at SRM IST Chennai
English, French, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada
Github Skills (11)
javascript10
handlebars9
css8
html8
rails-i18n7
react7
i18n-js7
chat7
ember-i18n7
collaboration5
electron5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zulip/zulip
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 19 PRs, 104 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Balaji primarily focused on improving the user interface and user experience within the Zulip web application. They made multiple changes to the display settings, modifying wording, and improving feedback mechanisms. The user also addressed issues related to composing messages, including fixing a bug where the "New Topic" button prefilled the current topic, and added a "subscribe" button to the not-subscribed stream error message. Furthermore, they fixed error handling for uploading icons and custom emojis.
zulippythonpython3chatjavascript
Balaji2198/zulip
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Zulip server - powerful open source group chat
Contributions:64 pushes, 21 branches in 5 months
group-chatchatzulip
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.