Chandrasekar Balachandran

Senior Software Engineer

Mountain View, California, United States8 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in cybersecurity and cloud computing solutions.
Led impactful projects at Microsoft enhancing software security.
Published research on decentralized blockchain security frameworks.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Engineer specializing in cybersecurity and cloud computing solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

C#CybersecurityCloud SecurityC++LlvmSoftware InfrastructureCompilers

Other Skills

ASP.NETASP.NET CoreAdobe PhotoshopAlgorithmsAmazon S3Amazon Web Services (AWS)Artificial Intelligence (AI)Chrome DevToolsChrome OSCloud ComputingData StructuresEvent ManagementGoogle ChromeInformation SecurityJenkins

About

As a seasoned software engineer, my focus is on making meaningful contributions within a forward-thinking organization. I am dedicated to expanding my expertise in advanced technologies by driving impactful, scalable and secure solutions. By aligning my growth with the organization’s vision, I aim to support ambitious projects that push boundaries and foster continuous improvement within a team.

Experience

8 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

4 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Microsoft

4 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos

PowerPoint Services: Engineer and deploy distributed caching, rendering and presentation microservices within the Microsoft Office PowerPoint ecosystem, optimizing security, scalability and resilience.
PowerPoint Security: Develop cross-service authentication, authorization, and sanitization security libraries to safeguard sensitive enterprise data and ensuring privacy and compliance.
Security Driver: Led the design, development, and assessment of multiple PPT service architectures.

C#Cloud ComputingCybersecurityMicrosoft AzureArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Software Engineer 2

Promoted

Aug 2022 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos

PowerPoint Services: Engineer and deploy distributed caching, rendering and presentation microservices within the Microsoft Office PowerPoint ecosystem, optimizing security, scalability and resilience.
PowerPoint Security: Develop and maintain cross-service authentication, authorization, and sanitization security libraries to safeguard sensitive enterprise data and ensuring privacy and compliance.
Security Driver: Led the design, development, and assessment of multiple PPT service architectures.

C#ASP.NET CoreASP.NETREST APIsCloud SecurityMicrosoft Azure+1

Software Engineer 2

Feb 2022 – Aug 2022 · 6 mos

Edge Proactive Performance team: Enhancing performance and optimizing system resource utilization of the edge and chromium-browser
Responsibilities: LLVM-Clang development, Profile Guided Optimization, Resource utilization Monitor, Efficiency Mode, Dynamic library linkage optimization, ETL monitoring and regression resolution

Chrome DevToolsC++LLVMProfile guided optimization

SWE Intern

May 2021 – Aug 2021 · 3 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Edge Performance Team:
Developed efficient means for dynamically linking runtime libraries to reduce the memory footprint of binaries and improve references sets.
Designed CPU and Memory monitor to visualize and intelligently recommend remediation for high resources usage tabs

C++LLVMCompilersGoogle ChromeChrome OS

Netapp

Software Engineer Intern

Aug 2021 – Dec 2021 · 4 mos · California, United States

Developed modules dedicated to Erasure encoding and S3API integrations as a member of the Data path team
Analyzed security vulnerabilities and developed solutions for Storage Grid-S3-CLI tools signature validation protocols
Designed and implemented web interfaces, error handling, and logging for Storage Grid manager and client consoles
Researched and evaluated compatibility and performance of Open Search on Storage Grid nodes

Software InfrastructureAmazon S3React.js

Usc viterbi school of engineering

Graduate Student Researcher - CCI Lab

Aug 2020 – Jul 2021 · 11 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States

Authored and published decentralized blockchain-based authentication and access control framework for zero-trust based security in a multi-tenant, distributed Software Defined Network for 5G and Cloud
Developed decentralized, zero-trust, Blockchain-based key exchange system to secure Chevron’s OT-IoT-Cloud data pipeline employing by employing Shamir secret sharing and proof of stake consensus: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9284739

Keck medicine of usc

Data Engineer

Jun 2020 – Aug 2020 · 2 mos

Performed federated query analytics on large scale distributed clinical sites using Grid Binary Logistic Regression
Rapidly analyzed, built and published SQL based procedures, functions and queries to facilitate COVID-19 statistical data analytics on de-identified EHR data. Published results for 30+ topics in: https://covid19questions.org/

Magnitude software, inc

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2019 – Dec 2019 · 9 mos

Conceptualized, developed, and productized the Simba Blockchain Connectivity suite for Hyperledger; Spearheaded customer discussions with Simba executive board; White paper: https://tinyurl.com/SimbaBCDriver
Product owner and Lead for a team of 8 for development of Simba-Oracle ODBC and Simba Netezza JDBC-ODBC Drivers. Responsible for customer interaction, feature enhancements, Scrum master, QA and Release management
Driver components built: Kerberos authentication, encryption methods (SSL/TLS), statement caching, data retrieval optimization; to enhance product security, performance and meet 80+ customer requirements
Received ‘Magnitude Gratitude Award’ for implementing critical high-performance driver enhancements leading to 20% read throughput. Represented Simba as a subject expert on blockchain at Informatica World ‘19 Las Vegas

Software Engineer

Jul 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

JDBC and ODBC driver developer

Pervacio, inc.

R&D Intern

Jan 2017 – May 2017 · 4 mos · Bangalore

Led a 6-member team to research and develop convolutional neural networks for mobile device Cosmetic Defect deteCtion and analysis (CDC) with over 96% detection accuracy with synthetic dataset.
Designed, Implemented and integrated the CDC system with Pervacio Business Suite.
Awarded best project and bonus compensation from executive management for successful implementation.