Balki Kodarapu
Co-Founder & CTO at YourCTO in US
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBalki Kodarapu is a seasoned engineering executive and serial founder with nine years of focused experience scaling SaaS products from inception to hyper-growth, including a successful exit and helping raise over $150M. As Co-Founder & CTO of YourCTO and former Director/Senior Director roles at Shogun, PayTrace, and SupportLogic, he combines hands-on engineering, people leadership, and strategic VPE-level planning to build calm, high-performing organizations and predictable delivery pipelines. He has driven measurable impact—cutting deploy cycles from days to hours, enabling usage-based pricing that doubled revenue, and designing roadmaps that fueled 20x customer growth in one year. An early adopter of GenAI/ML in customer service, Balki holds three ML/NLP patent filings and has won Fortune 100 clients like Nike and Fiserv, contributing to multi-hundred-percent product revenue growth. Based in San Francisco, he operates as a fractional CTO and mentor, uniquely blending startup grit with enterprise-scale reliability and a knack for turning messy engineering orgs into mission-aligned teams.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MBA General Management, MBA General Management at UW Foster School of BusinessBachelor of Science Mechnical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Mechnical Engineering at Osmania University
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Github Skills (28)
web-application10
python10
anki10
design-patterns10
scale10
webapp10
large-scale9
system9
bitly8
tinyurl7
medical7
react6
shorturl6
api5
url-shortener5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
balki-server/myprecious_python
Apr 2017 - Aug 2023
A simple, markdown generated with information about your python dependencies
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 5 months
dependenciespythonmarkdownpython-dependencies
balki-server/goto
Aug 2016 - Dec 2022
World's best URL-shortener & bookmarking site
Contributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 7 PRs in 6 years 4 months
shortenertinyurlbookmarkingurl-shortenerbitly
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