Balamurali Manickavasagam
Principal Engineer at Affirm
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBalamurali Manickavasagam is a Principal Engineer with over 18 years of experience designing and shipping scalable web applications and platform services, currently leading architecture at Affirm. He has a strong track record at PayPal and Venmo building high-impact systems—from webhooks and GraphQL-enabled Browser AutoFill to Tap to Pay and single sign-on integrations—that improved performance, security, and user adoption. Skilled across the full stack, he combines deep expertise in auth, tokenization, encryption (including early EC25519 advocacy), and fault-tolerant batch processing with practical product sensibility. He’s known for reducing launch times and API latencies through re-architecture and automation, and for migrating observability and infra to Terraform to boost operational efficiency. A pragmatic leader and mentor, he consistently raises team productivity, improves on-call reliability, and drives cross-functional stakeholder alignment. Based in Fremont, CA, he also bridges into ML and computer vision domains, reflecting a broad technical curiosity beyond core web-scale systems.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology at Pondicherry Engineering College
Github Skills (99)
voc10
deep-learning10
computer-graphics10
robust10
medical-imaging10
cyclegan10
backbone10
convolutional-neural-networks10
audio-classification10
inverse-problems10
computer-vision10
deeplab10
mri10
measurements10
translation10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Bala93/Bala93.github.io
Dec 2017 - Sep 2024
Contributions:65 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
Bala93/Multi-task-deep-network
Jul 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 13 pushes, 7 comments in 10 months
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