Balakrishnan Raj

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India2 yrs 6 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Reduced API performance P99 from 1.6s to 415ms.
Improved production reliability to 99.57% uptime.
Built features that cut support tickets by over 20%.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer with expertise in SaaS and Data Analytics.

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Skills

Core Skills

Back-end Web DevelopmentData AnalyticsMachine Learning

Other Skills

MicroservicesREST APIsSoftware DevelopmentKotlinKtor FrameworkRuby on RailsFlaskData VisualizationTechnical Data AnalysisTableauContent StrategyContent DevelopmentOnline Content CreationDeep LearningApache Kafka

About

Production breaks at 3 AM. I’m the one who digs in, fixes it, explains it, and makes sure it never happens again. Backend engineer with experience building and operating high-scale systems: → Slice (Current) → Porter – Allocation & Pricing Platform (Handled 4M+ daily requests) What I work on (and write about): → API performance (reduced P99 from 1.6s → 415ms) → Production reliability (fixed a Kubernetes race condition that led to inc in uptime to 99.57%) → High-impact product logic (built breach compensation flow, reduced partner tickets by 9.83%) → System design fixes (removed 4.4M+ unnecessary daily calls in legacy booking flow) → Incident handling & RCAs (led/participated in multiple war rooms) → Debugging real-world failures—OOMs, race conditions, timeouts, cascading retries I’ve fixed outages caused by misconfigured pods, parallelized APIs that were bottlenecking quotation generation, untangled legacy design flaws, and built features that cut support tickets by 20%+. My posts are about real incidents, real fixes, and real engineering decisions behind them. If you’re into backend that actually ships and survives traffic, stick around.

Experience

Slice

Software Engineer 1

Dec 2025 – Present · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Porter

2 roles

Software Engineer I

Aug 2024 – Nov 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

In the Core Product Team - Allocation & Pricing Backend Engineering

MicroservicesREST APIsBack-End Web Development

Software Development Engineer Intern

Jan 2024 – Jul 2024 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Awarded with PPO on the basis of meritocracy
Team:
Product Platform (Allocation & Pricing)
Key Contributions:
Led end-to-end development of an effective pricing strategy for Pickup & Drop breach scenarios — from ideation and design to implementation and deployment.
Fixed critical bugs in AnP services, significantly improving system stability and reliability.
Resolved multiple L4 support tickets, enhancing platform uptime and user experience.
Collaborated closely with senior engineers (SDE3s) to gain deep insights into Clean Code practices, SOLID principles, and Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
Tech Stack:
Kotlin · Ktor Framework · Ruby on Rails

Software DevelopmentBack-End Web DevelopmentREST APIs

Smartinternz

Data Analyst Extern

May 2023 – Jul 2023 · 2 mos · Remote

It was an 8-week externship program, which mimics the work of a typical Data Analyst Intern in a Big Tech Firm.
Softwares Explored: Tableau, IBM Cognos, Flask Library
Developed a Web-Integrated Data Analytics Dashboard and storyboard for "Global Co2 Emission Analysis".
Live Link: https://shorturl.at/dhDO5
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/Balakrishnan000/Data-Analytics-Unearthing-the-environamental-impacts-of-human-activity-A-global-Co2-Analysis
Modules Learnt and Executed:
Module-1: Introduction to Data Analytics
Module-2: Predictive Analytics
Module-3: Classification Analytics
Module-4: Prescriptive & Clustering Analytics
Module-5: Build a Business Project

FlaskData VisualizationData AnalyticsTechnical Data AnalysisTableau

Geeksforgeeks

Technical Content Writer

Oct 2022 – Feb 2023 · 4 mos · Remote

Contributed over 32 articles:
Authored 16 full-fledged articles on C++, DSA, Deep-Learning, and so on.
Improved 16 articles by providing the most optimized approach & detailed corrections.
Some Stats:
(About the 16 full-fledged fresh articles only authored by me)
Cumulative views: 100K+
Cumulative likes: 600+
Link to Article Basket: https://auth.geeksforgeeks.org/user/rbkraj000/articles

Content StrategyContent DevelopmentOnline Content Creation

Amazon

Mentee - Amazon ML Summer School

May 2022 – Jul 2022 · 2 mos · Remote

It's an integrated learning experience that will help you learn about key machine learning (ML) topics linking them to practical industry applications through an immersive experience, taught by Scientists at Amazon.
Link to know more: https://www.amazon.science/academic-engagements/second-annual-ml-summer-school-amazon-india

Machine LearningDeep Learning

Codechef vit-chennai chapter

Core Member

May 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

It's a Competitive Programming Contest and Competition conducting Chapter in VIT Chennai Campus.
During my tenure conducted:
CodeInvicta (https://codeinvicta.codechefvit.com/)
A competitive coding event in Mar 2022