Balaji Rajaram is a Senior Data Engineer based in Seattle with roughly a decade of experience building production-grade batch and streaming big data pipelines and APIs. At Amazon he architects and automates data workflows, internal chatbots, and analytics solutions that turn complex data into actionable reports. He brings a strong background in Hadoop, Spark, HBase, Python/Java and prior ETL/ELT expertise with Talend and Netezza, combined with hands-on Spring API development. Balaji also contributes to open-source infrastructure, improving CI/CD testing and VLAN-based pod networking for the high-impact amazon-vpc-cni-k8s project, highlighting his DevOps and systems-level sensibilities. Known for proactively identifying automation opportunities, he blends data engineering with practical machine learning and analytics to deliver optimized, client-focused solutions.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Data Science, Master's degree Data Science at Indiana University Bloomington
Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Master of Computer Applications (MCA) at Anna University Chennai
Networking plugin repository for pod networking in Kubernetes using Elastic Network Interfaces on AWS
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:17 reviews, 24 commits, 29 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Balaji primarily focused on configuring and updating the CI/CD pipeline for the repository. This involved modifications to the CircleCI configuration to run more comprehensive tests, trigger integration tests upon new tag creation, and schedule nightly runs on the master branch. Additionally, the user implemented changes to support pod networking via VLANs, including adding packet verification tools. This work aimed to improve testing and deployment processes for the Kubernetes networking plugin.
Contributions:9 reviews, 12 commits, 1 PR in 7 months
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