About

Sumit Bala is a Principal MTS at Salesforce with over 16 years of experience in software development and architecture. He has a proven track record of success in developing complex, web-scale enterprise products such as Rules Engine, Enterprise Service Bus, and Cybersecurity Frameworks. Sumit possesses strong organizational and interpersonal skills in addition to his hands-on experience in designing and writing robust, scalable, efficient, and maintainable applications. Sumit's skill set includes programming languages like Java, JEE, Spring, JavaScript, and NodeJS, web technologies such as HTML5, CSS, and jQuery, and web services such as RESTful Web Services, Microservices Architecture, SOA, and SOAP. He is also proficient in databases like Oracle databases and NoSQL (MongoDB), Big Data technologies like Hadoop, HDFS, MapReduce, Spark, and Apache Kafka, and cloud platforms like Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, HA/DR. Sumit is well-versed in DevOps tools like Git, Maven, Jenkins, Junit, Docker, and Shell scripting. Sumit has worked with reputed organizations like PayPal and eBay in the past. At PayPal, he worked as a Lead Engineer in Cybersecurity Architecture, where he re-platformed and migrated PayPal's IAM system to public cloud (GCP) and designed a complete CI/CD pipeline using Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, and other tools. Sumit also enhanced PayPal's Cryptographic Key Management System to enable PayPal's geo expansion to China and developed application-to-application authorization capability using JWT. At eBay, he worked as an MTS1, Software Engineer, where he designed a PaaS-based scalable config delivery mechanism using Java, JEE, REST Services, Mongo DB, and other open-source technologies. Sumit holds a B. Tech. degree in Computer Science from West Bengal University of Technology and is currently pursuing a Master of Technology - MTech in Data Science & Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. Sumit's relevant experience is 15.37 years, and he has a diverse tech stack that includes Salesforce, Web, Terraform, Java, Docker, Hadoop, Kafka, Jenkins, Microservices, HDFS, Software Engineer, Spark, MapReduce, MongoDB, Big Data, Javascript, NoSQL, Spring, DevOps, Integration, Senior Software Engineer, CI/CD, NodeJS, ML, GCP, and infra.