Balachandar Sankar
Engineering Manager at StackAdapt
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBalachandar Sankar is an engineering manager based in San Francisco with over a decade of experience building scalable platforms and leading ML-driven personalization and monetization efforts for consumer tech. He spent seven years at Yahoo driving cross-functional initiatives that powered engagement for hundreds of millions of users through AI-driven features like predictive segmentation and real-time entity extraction, and now leads engineering at StackAdapt. Known for grounding decisions in measurable business impact, he combines technical depth in data and personalization systems with a people-first approach to cultivate trust, alignment, and shared ownership. His work marries product-minded engineering with operational rigor, and he has a track record of lifting revenue through practical ML applications rather than experimental novelty.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science Software Engineering, Masters of Science Software Engineering at San José State UniversityBachelors of Engineering Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelors of Engineering Computer Science and Engineering at Anna University ChennaiGithub contributions (5)
bala-sankar/Playground
Jun 2014 - Oct 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 38 pushes in 7 years 5 months
bala-sankar/ProjectEuler
Sep 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:14 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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