Balaji Muthazhagan
Software Engineer at Databricks
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBalaji 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.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoSri Kumaran Children's Home - CBSEBachelor of Engineering - BE, Anna University - Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Anna University - Computer Science at PSG College of TechnologyThe Brigade School - CBSE
English, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (2)
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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