Summary
Balaji Iyer is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce with 13 years of experience specializing in performance engineering, web application security testing, and tool development. He progressed from performance engineering roles to leading Commerce Search services, combining deep profiling and load-testing expertise with production-scale tuning across global data centers. Balaji has a strong track record of building practical tooling (including JMeter plugins and capacity-planning solutions) that accelerated testing workflows and uncovered hard-to-find bottlenecks. He is concurrently pursuing an MS in Computer Science at the University of Florida, reflecting a commitment to continuous learning while driving reliability at scale. Notably, early internship work delivered a 14x throughput improvement on a high-impact servlet and informed caching and proxy tuning used in production.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.E., Instrumentation, B.E., Instrumentation at Ramrao Adik Institute Of Technology
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at University of Florida
English, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil