Balaganesh Damodaran
Senior Software Engineer at Contentful
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolBalaganesh Damodaran is a Senior Software Engineer based in Hamburg with 13 years of experience designing and delivering high-scale, highly available distributed systems. He blends hands-on architecture and development with people leadership, having recruited, built, and mentored technical teams across startups and larger product organisations. His background spans founding a startup (Mocktastic) and senior engineering roles at Contentful and ABOUT YOU, giving him both entrepreneurial grit and product-focused execution. He has deep practical experience re-architecting Node.js/MongoDB platforms and maintaining large Java-based CRM systems, enabling pragmatic migrations and resilience improvements. Known for shipping reliable systems at scale, he pairs technical breadth with a knack for turning complex requirements into operational, team-aligned solutions. Based on an electrical and electronics engineering foundation, he brings a systems-oriented mindset to software architecture and engineering management.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering
English, Tamil, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (77)
redux10
happy9
react9
pane8
code-editor8
javascript8
state-management8
ace8
ace-editor8
chrome-extension8
router8
iconv8
expressjs7
webworker7
chrome7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
asleepysamurai/bluejacket
Dec 2018 - Jun 2020
Simple Express Style Router for Isomorphic Apps
Contributions:38 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
expressjsexpressisomorphicnodejsmiddleware
asleepysamurai/etcports
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:32 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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