Balaji Mj
Software Engineer at Algonomy
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolBalaji Mj is a backend-focused software engineer with 9 years of industry experience and 4+ years specializing in scalable microservices, secure authentication, and high-performance APIs. Based in Bengaluru, he has shipped production systems for large-scale products—building MFA with tenant isolation, OAuth2 middleware, and metadata management for a real-time CDP at Algonomy. Previously at DealShare he optimized core purchase funnel APIs, added Redis-backed caching that cut latencies by seconds, and launched a gamified retention feature that boosted repeat activity by up to 45%. His background in research includes multi-task learning for autonomous driving and facial/biomedical imaging work at IISc and Continental, giving him a strong ML and algorithmic foundation that informs pragmatic backend design. Comfortable across distributed systems, data pipelines, and caching strategies, he pairs security-first thinking with hands-on performance tuning and a track record of resolving a significant portion of sprint bugs to stabilize legacy systems.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Instrumentation and Control Engineering at Manipal Institute of Technology
French, Hindi, English
Github Skills (33)
javascript10
python10
data-science10
statistics10
open-source10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
data-analysis10
ml9
scikit9
scikit-learn9
deep-neural-networks9
neural-network9
leaderboard9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Bala1718/Leetcode-Python
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:37 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
Bala1718/Dog_Classifier-MLND
Sep 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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