Balaji Punnuru
Senior Principal Engineer at Comcast
Greater Philadelphia United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBalaji Punnuru is a Senior Principal Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and operating carrier-grade telecommunications and network management systems. He brings deep hands-on expertise in SONET/SDH, TDM (DS1/DS3/E1/E3), TL1/CLI interfacing and a broad protocols stack including Ethernet, TCP/IP, SNMP, OSPF and RTP, gained through long-tenured roles at Comcast and earlier networking vendors. Balaji has bridged hardware and software domains, working with CSU/DSUs, digital access controllers and wideband switches while delivering resilient, production telecom services. His background includes financial systems engineering at Barclays, reflecting an ability to apply rigorous engineering practices across regulated, high-availability environments. Based in Greater Philadelphia, he combines low-level protocol mastery with large-scale operational experience, often tackling interoperability and legacy-to-modernization challenges that few engineers pair so fluently.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Electronics & Communication Engineering., B.Tech, Electronics & Communication Engineering. at Acharya Nagarjuna UniversityNew Jersey Institute of Technology
Github Skills (17)
vendor10
linux10
middleware9
networkmanager9
init9
system9
systemd9
wifi8
gnome8
meta-layer5
component-development4
assembler4
minidump3
admin3
userspace2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bpunnuru/systemd
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
The systemd System and Service Manager
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
service-managerqbcore-frameworklinuxglusterfsdbus
rdkcentral/systemtimemgr
Feb 2025 - Oct 2025
Contributions:15 reviews, 17 PRs, 16 pushes in 7 months
entertainmentmiddleware
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