Balaji Narayanan
VP Of Engineering at Clari
California, United States
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Top SchoolBalaji Narayanan is a customer-focused technology executive and VP of Engineering with 25+ years in enterprise SaaS and consumer platforms, currently leading Clari’s engineering organization. He combines P&L ownership, product-strategy alignment and M&A integration experience with a deep foundation in infrastructure, reliability and site reliability engineering from roles at Pinterest and Yahoo. Balaji has repeatedly built and scaled globally distributed R&D teams, balancing execution excellence with culture and measurable customer outcomes. His background spans hands-on systems and big data engineering to senior leadership, enabling pragmatic decisions across budget, investment and operational trade-offs. Notably, he pairs an IIM Bangalore Emerging Leaders credential with early engineering roots in India’s telecom and industrial sectors, giving him a rare blend of strategic business acumen and low-level systems instincts. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex technical challenges into scalable, lasting impact.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Emerging Leaders Program, Emerging Leaders Program at Indian Institute of Management BangaloreBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronics and Communications Engineering at Institute of Road and Transport Technology
English, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (51)
slack-bot10
python-bot10
vagrant8
google-chrome8
pinterest8
keyboard-shortcuts7
virtualization7
ruby7
slack7
automation7
bot-framework7
chrome6
kitchen6
password-strength6
ansible6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
balajijegan/slackminion
Jul 2018 - Mar 2021
A python bot framework for slack
Contributions:45 pushes, 28 branches in 2 years 9 months
pythonbotslack-botslackpython-bot
balajijegan/pygerduty
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
A Python library for PagerDuty.
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
python-librarypythonpagerduty
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