About

Balaraman Lakshmanan is an experienced Staff Software Engineer with over 13 years of experience working in both startups and large-scale internet companies. He is skilled in designing efficient data models, building telemetry, building DAGs, and leading people. Balaraman is self-driven with a strong sense of ownership and vast hands-on experience in building systems from scratch on cloud platforms like GCP. Balaraman has research experience in video processing, image processing, audio processing, and machine learning. He has also spent over 3 years as an entrepreneur, with his startup Crispify incubated as one of the 106 startups in Startup Chile Accelerator out of 1000+ applications. Balaraman is also a short-film maker with good experience in video editing, acting, writing scripts, and creative blogging. His technical specialties include Python, MySQL, MongoDB, Grafana, Prometheus, Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Redash, Azkaban, Airflow, Low-level Programming, Optimization of code, ARM Processors, Video codecs, Audio Codecs, Image Processing, C, Android app development, HTML/CSS, Video Editing, and Short-film making. Currently, Balaraman is working as a Senior Engineering Manager at nference. His past experiences include working as a Staff Software Engineer and Software Engineer at drishti, where he developed a sophisticated data extrapolation algorithm for the integration pipeline, built an external data integration system with arbitrary data structure, and designed and developed internal tools for cost calculation, customer onboarding, etc. He also actively participated in multiple design discussions and deployment activities and mentored DevOps/QA teams. Balaraman holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication from Thiagarajar College of Engineering. His tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, AI, Research Scientist, Python, ML, GCP, Software Engineer, Image Processing, Deep Learning, Apache Airflow, MongoDB, Kubernetes, Docker, MySQL, Integration, DevOps, SQL, Search, infra, Android, Terraform, SRE, qa, Postgres, Mobile, and UI.