Balaji V
Head Of Platform, Yahoo Finance
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBalaji V is an engineering leader and Head of Platform at Yahoo Finance with 15+ years building and scaling petabyte-scale data platforms, distributed storage, and real-time serving systems. He has led teams of 20–50+ to deliver cloud-native APIs, lakehouse and streaming solutions (Spark, Flink, Iceberg) and high‑availability KV/time-series stores across Yahoo, Meta, Cruise, and startups. Notable for shipping core infrastructure like Badger and Ristretto at Dgraph, he combines deep systems design with product-focused ML enablement—operating feature stores and low-latency personalization pipelines that handle billions of events per day. Balaji is skilled at defining technical vision for telemetry, schema governance, and self-serve developer platforms, improving cross-org reliability and developer velocity. Based in California, he brings pragmatic leadership informed by hands-on experience implementing consensus-backed distributed databases and managed DB services on AWS/GCP.
6 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinBE, Computer Science, BE, Computer Science at PSG College of Technology
Github Skills (10)
document-database10
go10
knowledge-graph10
graph-database10
database10
key-value9
golang9
backend6
graph4
graphql2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
dgraph-io/dgraph
May 2020 - Apr 2021
high-performance graph database for real-time use cases
Contributions:5 reviews, 7 comments, 1 issue in 11 months
graph-databasedatabasedistributedgoknowledge-graph
dgraph-io/badger
May 2020 - Sep 2020
Fast key-value DB in Go.
Contributions:3 comments in 4 months
gokey-valuegolangssddatabase
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