Balakumaran Kannan
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolBalakumaran Kannan is a data scientist with 13 years of IT experience who blends applied statistics and machine learning to deliver actionable insights across media, technology, retail, and finance. He holds an MS in Statistics from Zicklin and has practical experience in supervised and unsupervised modeling, experimentation, NLP, and dashboarding with Power BI, complemented by strong SQL and cloud skills on AWS and Azure. Past roles span hands-on analytics internships and a data analyst position, plus earlier application development at Accenture, giving him a pragmatic end-to-end perspective from data engineering to model deployment. He also contributes to Microsoft’s Azure Linux OS project on GitHub, improving build processes and dependency management—an uncommon cross-over that highlights his DevOps fluency. Avidly curious, he combines technical rigor with a passion for sports analytics, often applying statistical methods to football data in his spare time.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bangalore Institute Of TechnologyThe Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)St.Joseph's Boys High SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Statistics, Master of Science - MS, Statistics at Zicklin School of Business
German, English, Hindi
Github Skills (13)
gnu-make10
go10
development-tools10
package-management10
makefile10
build-automation10
toolchain10
cicd9
linux9
shell8
script8
sh8
scripting8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azurelinux
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
General purpose Linux OS for Azure
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:424 reviews, 37 commits, 339 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Balakumaran primarily contributes to the Azure Linux OS project by modifying build processes and testing configurations. They introduced a feature to build packages using hydrated dependencies, which involved changes to graph preprocessor, makefiles, and package graph utilities to manage dependency resolution. Additionally, the user addressed testing issues related to specific package builds. They also introduced a CSV file detailing the SRPMs build, preBuilt, Failing, unBuilt and blockers for failing and unBuilt packages.
azurelinux
0xba1a/blog_source
Mar 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:3 PRs, 32 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
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