Balaji Athreya is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building high-throughput risk and payments systems, currently leading a team at Apple after a tenure at eBay focusing on seller funds risk. He has led cross-functional launches—dispute holds and transaction holds—for eBay Managed Payments that improved loss recovery and sped funds release by 30%. Skilled in designing REST services, event-stream processing, and rule-engine decision platforms, he has migrated large legacy codebases to scalable services handling hundreds of millions of requests per day. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs backend engineering with data-driven troubleshooting using SQL, Hadoop, and monitoring dashboards. As a mentor and frequent collaborator with Trust, Payments, Product and Ops teams, he balances technical ownership with operational incident leadership. With an MS in Computer Science and roots in both enterprise and academic tooling, he brings pragmatic rigor to complex risk decisioning problems.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science, Computer Science, Masters of Science, Computer Science at Oregon State University
B.E, Electronics and Communication, B.E, Electronics and Communication at Anna University Chennai
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Balaji Athreya - Senior Software Engineer at Apple