Balaji Muthazhagan

San Diego, California, United States

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Balaji Muthazhagan is a software engineer with 9 years of experience building low-latency, large-scale distributed systems and ML infrastructure, currently at Databricks after driving Pinterest’s ads serving platform. He has architected production MLOps pipelines, real-time ML signal unification, privacy-compliant serving, and high-frequency trading infrastructure, combining research-grade continual learning work with pragmatic production delivery. Comfortable across request handling, multi-stage ranking, auction logic, and compiler-style DSLs, Balaji focuses on reliability, cost optimization, and zero-downtime redesigns for systems serving billions of requests. Trained with an MS in Computer Science (AI) from UC San Diego, he blends academic rigor with hands-on systems engineering and a knack for unifying real-time ML and infrastructure at scale.

8 years of coding experience

1 year of employment as a software developer

University of California, San Diego

12th Grade - Science, 94.40 / 100.00, 12th Grade - Science, 94.40 / 100.00 at Sri Kumaran Children's Home - CBSE

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Anna University - Computer Science (Gold Medalist & Best Outgoing Student), 9.81 / 10.00, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Anna University - Computer Science (Gold Medalist & Best Outgoing Student), 9.81 / 10.00 at PSG College of Technology

10th Grade, 9.60 / 10.00, 10th Grade, 9.60 / 10.00 at The Brigade School - CBSE

English, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada

Github Skills (4)

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jupyter-notebook6

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python6

Programming languages (2)

JavaScriptJupyter Notebook

Github contributions (5)

balajimt/Pieano

Jun 2017 - Oct 2021

Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months

balajimt/balajimt.github.io

Sep 2018 - Oct 2024

Contributions:138 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months

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