About

Bala Subrahmanyam Varanasi is a result-oriented professional with over 10 years of experience in software engineering, product management, and end-to-end web and mobile application development. He is currently working as a software engineering consultant at Esme Learning, where he is responsible for developing and maintaining highly scalable applications using event-driven architectures. Bala has a wealth of experience in building and maintaining large-scale applications. He reverse-engineered the legacy Cricinfo site and rebuilt it from scratch in modern architectures and technologies, which served 30 million concurrent users during a live cricket match. He also implemented real-time cricket score updates using Vernemq and CDC pipeline using Kafka and Debezium. As the Chief Technology Officer at Rhymella, Bala laid out the product development strategy and led the product’s technical vision from idea to fully functional application, which resulted in a successful startup acquisition. He also designed and implemented an image processing pipeline using AWS Serverless architecture and Amazon Rekognition API, which evolved as a B2B product. Bala has also worked as a lead full stack software consultant at ESPN, where he reverse-engineered the legacy Cricinfo site and rebuilt it from scratch in modern architectures and technologies, serving a million users during a live cricket match. He was responsible for developing and maintaining highly scalable applications using event-driven architectures. Bala holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology from Vishnu Institute of Technology, and he has completed a Blockchain Developer Nanodegree and an Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree from Udacity. He has a diverse tech stack, including AWS, Kafka, Redis, Mobile, Web, Image Processing, test, product manager, DevOps, Django, MongoDB, Software Engineer, Python, Javascript, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Typescript, MySQL, Redux, and AngularJS. Bala has 7.70 years of relevant experience and is a startup enthusiast and consultant who is passionate about developing innovative solutions to complex problems.