Krishnan Balan

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

17 years of experience in engineering leadership
Expert in building scalable distributed systems
Proven track record in leading high-performance teams

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a strong focus on scalable systems and data management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsScalabilityData MigrationBig DataData Analytics

Other Skills

Cloud ComputingWebservicesSoftware DevelopmentAgile Methodologies

About

Engineering Leader with 17 years of experience with top product companies like Wayfair, Flipkart, Yahoo and Fico, and Startups, building highly scalable and distributed systems. Experienced in independently owning and driving revenue generating products, feature development and quality - from concept and design stage to GA. Built new software development teams from ground up: driving innovation and managing high performance agile teams Expertise in managing, motivating and leading teams including providing technical leadership and mentoring. Excellent Documentation, Communication and People Management skills Experience in large scale distributed architecture, messaging system,various databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching systems, data model, quality engineering, test driven development, Automation frameworks and Agile development Strong Experience building and leading teams of close to 75+ engineers (senior leads, architects, EMs and Senior EMs)

Experience

19 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Wayfair

Associate Director

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore Urban

Wayfair is a global online retailer specialising in home goods and furniture with a revenue of over 10 billion. I lead multiple teams as part of the Network Inventory Management Platform supporting the Castlegate Program. Castlefate FCs contribute to 20% of the overall volume at Wayfair today.

Distributed SystemsScalabilityCloud ComputingData MigrationWebservicesBig Data+2

6sense

Director Of Engineering

Mar 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Slintel, a 6Sense company, Provides data-driven insights to enable go-to-market teams achieve significant results while spending fewer hours on outreach and research. I head the overall Sales Intelligence Engineering teams helping customers discover and orchestrate several millions of records over TBs of data.

Data MigrationBig DataSoftware DevelopmentAgile Methodologies

Paytm

DGM Engineering

Sep 2020 – Mar 2021 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Part of the Paytm's Lending Ecosystem, Heading the Loan Management System, including the Platform, Business and Recon Layers, Source of truth of all the lending activities. Working to provide a 100% data correctness and completeness across Lenders and customers for all their Lending activities.

Data MigrationSoftware DevelopmentAgile Methodologies

Flipkart

Engineering Manager

Jul 2015 – Sep 2020 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

Part of the Flipkart Marketplace ecosystem leading multiple high-performance engineering teams in critical areas.
The listings Management team is responsible for building an ecosystem for sellers to list products, maintain inventory and pricing, ensuring high availability for customers to buy online for over 600 million listings.
A Highly scalable Listings platform for Serving millions of requests per day
Leading a complete end to end payment reconciliation system for the sellers for all their orders fulfilled through Flipkart.
Large scale ETL pipelines for seller reconciliation to ensure 100% correctness and completeness of data.
Led the IaaS infrastructure and platform stack at Flipkart cloud platform for handling Flipkart's application scale and performance challenges

Distributed SystemsScalabilitySoftware DevelopmentAgile Methodologies

Fico®

Tech Lead

Feb 2013 – Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

FICO provides data analytics to companies across multiple industries to manage risk, fight fraud, build more profitable customer relationships, optimize operations and meet strict government regulations. The team is responsible for delivering Fico’s Leading next generation Credit account and Customer management solution.

Data AnalyticsSoftware Development

Yahoo!

Principal Engineer

Jun 2006 – Feb 2013 · 6 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

Was part of Yahoo's Partner cobranded Services, involved in large scale user data migrations of millions of users on to yahoo servers from multiple large scale clients like AT&T, Verizon etc.

Data MigrationSoftware Development