About

Balaji D. is a highly experienced Director of Engineering at Zetwerk, with over 16 years of experience in software development and leadership roles. He has a proven track record of designing and building highly available, scalable systems in the grocery e-commerce domain. Balaji has 7+ years of experience in development, deployment, and management of highly available, secure, and scalable products primarily using the MEAN stack. He has great expertise in building server/client platforms. Balaji's specialties include the design and architecture of highly available, scalable, and future-proof systems. He is well-versed in tech stacks such as Solr, Aerospike, Kafka, Docker, NodeJS, ExpressJS, MySQL, Mongo, Angular (MEAN), and ReactJS. His current role as Director of Engineering at Zetwerk involves leading and managing a team of engineers to build and maintain high-quality software products. Prior to joining Zetwerk, Balaji held various positions at BigBasket, where he served as an Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer. He also worked at Formobi Solutions as a Technical Architect, where he developed a SAAS-based Service Ticket Management platform for enterprise clients. Balaji holds a B.Tech degree in Computer Science from the International Institute of Information Technology, as well as an Intermediate (+2) degree from Narayana Junior College and a High School degree from Municipal High School, Nellore. He has a broad range of technical skills, including Senior Software Engineering, MySQL, MongoDB, Docker, Kafka, Web, Test, NodeJS, Mobile, Microservices, PHP, Search, AngularJS, AWS, New Relic, SDET, Kubernetes, UI, and ReactJS. Overall, Balaji has 18.12 years of relevant experience in software development and engineering leadership roles. He is a highly skilled and motivated professional who is passionate about building high-quality software products that meet the needs of customers.