Bala Saladi
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBala Saladi is a Software Development Engineer II based in Bellevue, Washington with eight years of experience building reliable, large-scale billing and payments systems at Amazon. He has driven measurable impact—designing an auto-rejection flow that saved $250k annually and helping launch Amazon Shipping in Italy through a more resilient Billing Interim architecture. Comfortable across the stack, Bala’s background spans Java, AWS services, Node.js front-end work, and UX-focused contributions to the open-source BookBrainz project where he improved editor components and documentation. He also mentors early contributors, having guided dozens of students in Google Code-in tasks, reflecting a knack for translating complex features into accessible implementations. Practical, metrics-oriented, and invested in both system reliability and user experience, he blends production-grade backend engineering with thoughtful front-end polish.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Intermediate, MPC, 97.7, Intermediate, MPC, 97.7 at Narayana Junior College,KukatpallyBachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Software Engineering at JNTUH College of Engineering Hyderabad10, 9.7, 10, 9.7 at Satkama High School
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
nodejs10
react10
ui-design9
documentation8
mongodb6
angular6
flutter6
error-handling6
github-pages6
github6
dockers5
docker5
elasticsearchquery3
aws-elasticsearch3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
metabrainz/bookbrainz-site
Oct 2019 - Jan 2020
BookBrainz website, written in node.js.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 8 PRs, 30 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Bala primarily contributed to the BookBrainz website's front-end, focusing on UI/UX improvements and component development. They implemented validation messages, refactored editor components, and integrated FontAwesome for improved visual presentation. Their work also included adding documentation using JSDoc and fixing typos to improve the user experience.
bookbrainzreactredisnode-jsjavascript
sbvkrishna/low-level-design
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Resources to learn Low-level System Design and prepare for Low-level design (LLD/Machine Coding) Interviews
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 1 push in 1 year 7 months
design-patternsdesign-principlesdesignpatternsflipkart-interviewinterview-preparation-kit
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