Balaji Jayasankar
Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBalaji Jayasankar is a software engineer with a decade of experience designing and shipping high-throughput, data-intensive systems across finance, e‑commerce, and ad platforms. He combines solid backend expertise in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, Kafka and NoSQL with hands-on production experience on Kubernetes and cloud data platforms like GKE and BigQuery. At companies from Tesco and Deutsche Bank to Meta and LinkedIn, he has built event-driven architectures and real-time pipelines that prioritize low latency and availability at scale. Notably, he implemented a distributed sliding-window counter for Meta’s ad serving infrastructure to improve 99th-percentile latency under heavy load. A graduate of NIT Calicut with an MS from Stony Brook, he now applies enterprise-grade engineering practices in the San Francisco Bay Area.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology CalicutMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, German
Stackoverflow
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3kreached
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2questions
Github Skills (28)
model-view-controller6
spring-mvc6
spring6
json6
ajax6
javascript6
jsp6
graph5
graph-drawing4
visualization4
webgl4
graph-algorithms4
drawing4
endpoints2
api2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
balaji97/EXPL_NITC
Jan 2018 - Nov 2020
Compiler built for the custom programming language, EXPL as part of Compilers Laboratory course at the National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India.
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
compilersnationallaboratorycompilercustom-programming-language
balaji97/dss_grade_parser
Jul 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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