Abhishek Balam
Enterprise Architect at Open Consultancy Services
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolAbhishek Balam is an Enterprise Architect and free-software hacker with a decade of experience building and operating open-source enterprise systems, currently helping organisations with solution architecture, data engineering, and infrastructure at Open Consultancy Services. He spent several years at Frappe/ERPNext where he combined hands-on DevOps, presales solutioning, and product work—creating a profitable managed services vertical, leading ISO 27001 efforts, and reducing L3 infra incidents to near zero. Technically fluent across Python, JavaScript, and deployment automation, his contributions span core Frappe/ERPNext repos (bench, frappe, erpnext) from bug fixes and UI improvements to multi-tenant deployment and journal entry features. A pragmatic generalist, he pairs enterprise compliance experience (BFSI templates, security programs) with low-level ops know-how like LetsEncrypt automation and SaaS platform maintenance. Based in Mumbai, he’s an active maintainer and mentor in open-source communities, runs his own code and blog sites, and prefers connection requests with a message—reflecting a thoughtful, community-focused approach.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
ISC Science, ISC Science at Lilavatibai Podar Sr Secondary SchoolBachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering
Telugu, Hindi, English, Marathi
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Github Skills (21)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
frappe/bench
Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
CLI to manage Multi-tenant deployments for Frappe apps
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 10 commits, 4 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Abhishek primarily focused on configuring and maintaining the deployment environment, specifically concerning Let's Encrypt certificate renewals. They updated cron job frequencies, corrected cron job formats to ensure correct certificate renewals, and removed the patch in a subsequent commit. Furthermore, they were involved in merging branches and managing version dependencies. This suggests a focus on the operational aspects of the application.
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frappe/erpnext
Apr 2020 - Jan 2021
Free and Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 82 commits, 41 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Abhishek primarily focused on implementing features related to "Journal Entry Template" within the ERPNext system. Their contributions involved creating new functionalities and modifying existing code in JavaScript, Python, and related configuration files. These changes included defining the user interface and user interactions for the features, as well as back-end logic enhancements to make the features work seamlessly. The user also integrated their code with existing systems.
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