Balaji Athreya
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolBalaji 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 UniversityB.E, Electronics and Communication, B.E, Electronics and Communication at Anna University Chennai
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Github Skills (15)
quartz-scheduler6
classloader6
hadoop6
spring-mvc6
spring-batch6
spring6
jackson6
apache-pig6
browser-extension6
java6
firefox5
reference-implementation4
web-application4
cms2
prestashop-module2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
privly/privly-firefox
Dec 2011 - Jul 2012
Official Privly Browser Extension for Firefox - Allows for Viewing and Posting Content on Any Website Without the Host Site Having Access
Contributions:40 commits in 7 months
browser-extensionfirefox
balajiathreya/CrackingTheCodeInterview
Mar 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 22 pushes in 9 months
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