Arun Bhalla

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States29 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-Founder and CTO of a documentation acceleration startup
Led engineering teams at multiple tech companies
Expert in AWS and software engineering practices

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong leadership in software engineering and cloud technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

Engineering LeadershipAmazon Web Services (AWS)Distributed SystemsSoftware DevelopmentGitPerlJavaLinuxAgile MethodologiesSubversionEnterprise SoftwareSystem ArchitectureScalaMongoDBDatabases

Experience

Ekline

Co-Founder & CTO

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

We accelerate creating and maintaining docs for software companies.

Engineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipAmazon Web Services (AWS)Software EngineeringDistributed SystemsSoftware Development

Launchdarkly

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2017 – Jul 2024 · 7 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Enabling customers to release software quicker and safer using feature flags.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Engineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipSoftware Engineering

Atlassian

2 roles

Development Team Lead

Sep 2013 – Dec 2016 · 3 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Technical owner for Atlassian Marketplace, an app store for third-party Atlassian integrations.
Managed developers, site reliability engineers, and a support engineer.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Software Engineering

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2010 – Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Member of core development team for Atlassian Marketplace, an app store for third-party Atlassian integrations.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Software Engineering

Coverity

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Oct 2008 – Nov 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Managed a team of two local engineers plus three offshore developers.
Product owner for Coverity Desktop IDE plug-ins (Eclipse, Visual Studio). Met with customers to collect requirements and feedback for desktop applications. Trained the sales team for new product releases.
Maintained Visual Studio plug-in (C#), Eclipse plug-in (Java), and Eclipse RCP application.
Developed J2EE-based application or migrating customer databases to PostgreSQL.
Maintained and supported license fulfillment service and license enforcement component across product suite. Deployed new licensing models.

Staff Software Engineer

Oct 2005 – Oct 2008 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Technical lead for a team of six engineers developing a Web application and command-line tools using C++ and SQLite.
Specified functionality for the initial release and several subsequent releases of the Defect Manager, the customers' primary interface for viewing static analysis results.
Designed and developed database migration software to robustly transform customers' large databases from one major schema to the next.
Added support for internationalization using ICU.

University of illinois at urbana-champaign

Research Programmer

Jan 2000 – Jan 2005 · 5 yrs · Urbana-Champaign Area

Technical lead for a team of five developers.
Implemented and extended Java (Swing) application and Internet Explorer toolbar (C#).
Researched and implemented Web document clustering algorithms.
Built and distributed new product releases on a biweekly basis.
Influenced hiring decisions for expanding the development team.

U.s. geological survey (usgs)

Student Web Programmer

Jan 1996 – Jan 2000 · 4 yrs · Urbana-Champaign Area

Technical lead for a team of six developers across four states.
Engineered and developed nationally deployed data distribution packages (Perl, MySQL).
Maintained and administrated district and national web servers (Apache httpd, Linux).