About

Balu Loganathan is a seasoned UI Lead with over 10 years of extensive experience in User Interface Engineering for client-side and web-services based business applications. He is currently working as a Software Engineering Manager at Cisco, where he leads and mentors geographically dispersed teams, works with product managers to understand business needs, turns ideas to designs, designs to prototypes, tests internally, gathers feedback, and iterates. Balu is passionate about building software in a lean fashion and practices Agile and Lean UX methodologies. Balu has domain expertise in e-commerce and payments industries, including online gateway payment systems. He has extensive experience in developing web-based applications such as application forms, marketing pages, account overview and profile dashboards, client-side validations, and web services. He is also experienced in building responsive applications, customer-facing application development, implementing third-party web services, and designing and developing strategic test cases and test reports for unit testing. Balu is a Design Thinking practitioner who empathizes with customers, learns from customer experience, and iterates. He is a New Hire Trainer on process and functional domains, product and project management assistance, and a User Interface Feature Lead who creates functional scope. Balu has exceptional organizational, multi-tasking, problem-solving, and leadership skills with a result-oriented attitude. He effectively works independently and in a team with project managers, business analysts, and developers. Balu holds a Master's degree in Computer Applications from St. Joseph's College of Engineering and a Strategic Innovation and Design Thinking certification from Stanford University. His technical skills include Senior Software Engineer, test, Web, UI, designer, product manager, integration, and software engineer. Balu is currently looking to hire a Full Stack Developer with expertise in React and Node.