Bala Bhaskar Veerannagari

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly StableAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

15+ years of engineering leadership experience.
Proven track record in delivering impactful software solutions.
Co-authored 8 filed patents in innovative technologies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused engineering leader with expertise in B2C and B2B product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DevelopmentGenaiDistributed Systems

Other Skills

Organizational DevelopmentCloud-Native ApplicationsCross-functional Team LeadershipSQLMicroservicesEngineering LeadershipTechnical LeadershipREST APIsPeople ManagementObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Software DevelopmentTeam ManagementTeam LeadershipMobile Application DesignCore Java

About

Adept Engineering leader with 15+ years of experience and a proven track record of delivering impactful products and engineering excellence across B2C, B2B, and B2D landscapes at leading software product companies. ✓At Samsung, I drove end-user empowerment by delivering intuitive, consumer-focused software solutions. ✓At Citrix, I addressed complex enterprise challenges by building reliable, scalable solutions for business needs. ✓Now, at Google, I’m focused on empowering developers and strengthening the Google Apps ecosystem to drive innovation at scale. With a commitment to engineering excellence and a passion for bridging technical expertise with customer-centric strategies, I aim to deliver impactful, measurable results. ✓Experienced in - 1.Engineering Leadership, Project Management, Execution & Delivery; 2.Product Ownership & Strategy Planning; 3.People Management, Coaching & Growth; 4.Stakeholder Communication & Collaboration. ✓Skilled in Java, Distributed Systems, Microservices & MicroFrontends, Azure, AWS, Mobile Development, Android, iOS, Text Mining, Information Retrieval, Search Engine, Natural Language Understanding, Design Patterns & Principles. ✓Knowledge worker and innovative thinker having co-authored 8 filed patents (4 granted) and with zeal to create more Intellectual Property for the tech of future generations. Granted: US20190094980A1, US10108324B2, US20230186037, IN201741041051.

Experience

15 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 10 mos

Current Experience

Google deepmind

Engineering Manager

Nov 2025 – Present · 7 mos · Bengaluru

✓Engineering Leader specializing in bringing cutting-edge Generative AI to billions of users through mobile and wearable platforms. Leading two product-focused squads, driving the development and feature delivery for both Gemini on Android (Gemini Overlay) and the Gemini on Watch experiences, ensuring seamless, scalable AI functionality across all Pixel and OEM partner devices.

Product DevelopmentGenAI

Google

Engineering Manager

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

✓Engineering Manager leading the Firebase Run suite of products—Remote Config, A/B Testing, Rollouts and Personalization—on Google’s platform for mobile and web app development.
✓Empowering developers and enterprises to iterate and dynamically update their app behaviours with our suite of products, enabling them to test, refine, and adjust app configurations and AI model parameters.

Distributed SystemsProduct Development

Citrix

Engineering Manager II

Apr 2021 – Aug 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

✓Engineering Manager for Citrix Cloud Services
Citrix Global App Configuration Service (GACS)
App Personalization Service for Citrix Client Apps
Auto Update Service for Citrix Apps & Plug-ins
Auto Discovery Services
Push Notification Service
Citrix Global App Configuration Service (GACS):
Drove initiatives to address customer adoption blockers, service resiliency, ease of use, onboarding & troubleshooting documentation that resulted in 1600+ enterprise customers adopting the service (Jun 2024), a significant raise from earlier adoption of 43 customers (Sep 2022).
Achieved significant scale expansion, with the GACS traffic for fetching configuration policies daily increasing from about 100K in September 2022 to approximately 1.1 million by June 2024.
Led the product during the growth inflection point which is now on a Hockey-stick growth in adoption.
✓Engineering Manager & Product Owner for Citrix Files (ShareFile) & Podio Mobile Apps - Android & iOS platforms.
Created a strategic vision and roadmap for revival of the Mobile apps with several mobile first use cases, experience improvements and quality focus.
Turned around and reinvigorated Podio Mobile Apps portfolio by driving initiatives that directly resulted in improved customer satisfaction. Podio Mobile NPS score rose to an all time high of 64.7 in Feb’22 (65 iOS/ 62 Android), A significant improvement from the earlier score of 39 in Feb’21.
Lead initiatives to improve the app store ratings of Citrix Files (ShareFile) Mobile Apps with focus on usability, performance, quality and stability. App store Ratings improved from 3.4 to 3.9 on Android and 2.9 to 3.4 on iOS. And NPS score improved from 45 to 50.
#citrixfiles #podio #quickedit #cignadrive #sharefile #android #ios #ipados #saas #cloudservices #gacs #citrixworkspace #csg #cloudsoftwaregroup

Distributed SystemsProduct Development

Samsung electronics

5 roles

Senior Technical Manager

Apr 2020 – Mar 2021 · 11 mos

Development of Samsung Search & Query Suggestion deployed across all Samsung Android smartphones including the latest Galaxy S & Note series devices.
✓Samsung Search
"Samsung Search" is the "on-device" search engine platform.
Provides enhanced search functionalities to various Samsung applications such as Gallery, Contacts, Settings and Finder.
✓Query Suggestion
Provides keyword suggestions for searching in the Gallery to enhance users’ search experience.

Product Development

Chief Engineer / Staff Engineer

Apr 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

Development of Samsung Search Engine deployed across all Samsung Android smartphones including the latest Galaxy S & Note series devices.
✓Samsung Search
"Samsung Search" is the "on-device" search engine platform.
Provides enhanced search functionalities to various Samsung applications such as Gallery, Contacts, Settings and Finder.

Product Development

Technical Lead

Promoted

Apr 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

✓Device Care (a.k.a Smart Manager or Device maintenance) app.
✓Samsung Galaxy S9 Camera Development Task Force.
✓Android Performance Improvement and Sluggishness Reduction Task Force for flagship phones.
✓India Localization Task Force for Indian market specific phones - Make for India Task Force.
✓Android Thirst Monitor app development (Thread level CPU/Battery utilisation monitoring).

Lead Engineer

Apr 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos

✓Android Performance & Sluggishness Tech Group.
✓Android System & Framework Performance Improvement.
✓System Software Development.

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2012 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos

✓Android Booting & App Performance Improvement.
✓Android System Performance Optimization & System Engineering.
✓Android Profiling App Development.

Aricent group

Software Engineer

Jul 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore, India

✓Real Time Billing Solutions (Comverse RTBS, Domain: Telecom Billing) - real-time rating & charging solution for voice, content and other value-added services deployed in more than 50 countries worldwide.
✓Mobile Video Optimization Gateway (Ortiva mVOG).