Balaji Venkatesan

United States, India

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Summary

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Senior

Balaji Venkatesan is a seasoned engineering leader overseeing enterprise-grade data platforms and cloud-native AI initiatives at Qualys, where he serves as Director of Engineering, Cloud Data Platform and Senior Director of Engineering, Data Platform. With 23+ years driving robust, scalable solutions, he leads cross-functional teams spanning Data Science, Platform Engineering, and DBRE to deliver secure AI/ML and Generative AI-enabled platforms at scale. His technical breadth spans advanced data platforms (Kafka, Cassandra, OpenSearch, Redis, JanusGraph) and full-stack development (Java, Spring Boot, Python) along with cloud-native DevOps (Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins). He has steered programs delivering end-to-end AI/ML/GenAI deployments while maintaining strong emphasis on security, open-source excellence, and measurable business value, including platforms handling over 100 million transactions and terabytes of data daily. Notably, he holds a US patent for vulnerability state delta detection and is recognized with multiple internal awards for performance and mentoring. Based in Dublin, California, Balaji combines deep technical depth with empowering leadership to turn data, AI, and cloud into strategic business capabilities.

9 years of coding experience

Github Skills (50)

cloudfoundry10

sql10

cpp10

high-performance10

database10

kubernetes9

paxos9

java-client9

databases9

yugabytedb9

dynamodb9

scale-out9

sql-database9

cloud-native9

distributed-database9

Programming languages (4)

JavaCGoHTML

Github contributions (5)

balajivenki/ndbench

Apr 2018 - Jan 2019

Netflix Data Store Benchmark

Contributions:1 PR, 16 pushes, 1 tag in 9 months

benchmarkdata-storenetflix

balajivenki/dyno

May 2018 - Aug 2018

Java client for Dynomite

Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months

javadynomitejava-client

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