Balaram Baral

Director of Engineering

Netherlands20 yrs 1 mo experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 20 years of experience in engineering leadership.
Expertise in building scalable data ecosystems.
Proven track record in mentoring and growing talent.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in Data Engineering and Platform Engineering within the FinTech and SaaS industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Capacity EngineeringPlatform EngineeringInfrastructure ManagementReliability EngineeringData EngineeringFinancial OperationsBusiness Intelligence

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesApache FlumeApache PigBatch scriptsControl-MCore JavaData WarehousingDatabasesHadoopHiveInformaticaMicrosoft BI SuiteMongoDBMySQLOracle

About

My Role is Threefold:Capacity & Platform Engineering: Mastering planning, forecasting, and allocation to ensure our platform scales efficiently and sustainably—a core function that yields significant, multi-million dollar savings.Data Engineering: Specialising in Big Data and Distributed Computing, ensuring the data infrastructure is robust and insightful.Full-Stack Development: Maintaining hands-on technical relevance across Java, Go, Python, and the AWS/GCP/OCI ecosystem.Over 20 years, whether in FinTech, EdTech, or Manufacturing, the constant has been my ability to hire, mentor, and grow world-class talent and build complex, high-impact products.If you are scaling your current Data Lake, wrestling with Data Quality, or seeking new Data Insights, please reach out. I'm always open for a great conversation on building scalable and effective data ecosystems.#EngineeringLeadership #BigData #DataEngineering #PlatformEngineering #AWS #GenAI #TeamBuilding

Experience

20 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

4 yrs

Average Tenure

4 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Uber

3 roles

Director of Engineering

Oct 2025 – Present · 8 mos

Working on Capacity and Efficiency engineering. Mastering planning, forecasting, and allocation to ensure our platform scales efficiently and sustainably—a core function that yields significant, multi-million dollar savings.

Capacity EngineeringPlatform Engineering

Head of Amsterdam Core Infra (Director Engineering)

Promoted

Mar 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

Managed the Core Infra including Compute teams, Corporate and production (Hardware and Software) Infrastructure, Optimising Remote procedure calls, making the Infra reliable (Bad hosts, bad pods and bad release detection and mitigation)

Infrastructure ManagementReliability Engineering

Senior Engineering Manager

Dec 2021 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

I manage the Finance engineering team at Uber. The Work cuts across Planning, forecasting, Financial Operation(Accounts Payable, General Ledger), Compliance reporting, HeadCount/Workforce Planning/Management and Tax (Direct and Indirect). Technologies include Distributed computing (Big data), Cloud (AWS), Python, golang, Java, Scala and host of other front end and backend tech's. I manage a team that is large and distributed across multiple geographies in India and the US (100+ FTEs across 3 countries).

Data EngineeringFinancial Operations

Amazon

2 roles

Engineering Leader

Promoted

Jan 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

Worked for Amazon's FinTech building Data engineering solutions for Tax, Accounts Payables/Receivables and Transportation Finance. Worked on PetaByte scale data using Native AWS technologies and Big Data/Distributed computing (Spark, Scala). Built Data Lakes and Business intelligence tools (QuickSight, Tableau) for decision support systems helping make receivable decisions worth Billions of dollars. Built multiple high performing teams.

Data EngineeringBusiness Intelligence