Ashwanth Balakrishnan
Research Assistant at VISA Research Lab
Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshwanth Balakrishnan is a performance-obsessed software engineer and current Research Assistant at VISA Research Lab, with four years of backend-focused experience building FastAPI services and full-stack applications that scale to tens of thousands of users. Pursuing an MS in Computer Science at Arizona State University (3.8 GPA), he specializes in automating manual bottlenecks into workflows that run up to 90% faster and consistently optimizes systems to process millions of records under tight latency targets. His background includes backend roles at Zerberus.ai and Integrity-IT and an internship at TOFI that jumpstarted his trajectory into production engineering. An active open-source maintainer with an 18k+ community, he pairs academic rigor with pragmatic engineering to deliver high-impact, efficient solutions.
4 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityBachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Vellore Institute of Technology
Github Skills (87)
authentication10
jquery10
django10
jsonwebtoken10
django-project10
openid-connect10
django-rest-framework10
celery10
biometrics10
javascript9
rest9
api-error9
saml9
python9
cookiecutter9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ashwanthbalakrishnan5/horilla
Mar 2024 - Dec 2024
Horilla is a free and open source HR software.
Contributions:45 pushes, 9 branches in 9 months
ashwanthbalakrishnan5/ashwanthbalakrishnan5
Jun 2023 - Oct 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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