Balu Babu
Building at Stealth Startup
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolBalu Babu is a pragmatic full-stack engineer with 10 years of experience building production systems and shipping 0→1 products from Bengaluru. He has driven backend architecture, auth flows and schema design for notable open-source projects like Hoppscotch (an alternative to Postman), and served as the first full‑stack hire at an AI startup where he led system design, infra and deployments. Comfortable across mobile, web and services, his background ranges from indie game development to embedded smart-device projects, giving him a knack for practical, cross-disciplinary problem solving. Currently reinventing how engineering teams debug production at a stealth startup, he combines hands‑on coding with product-minded systems thinking.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
CMR Group of InstitutionsBachelor of Engineering - BE, ECE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, ECE at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering
English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Japanese
Github Skills (14)
authentication10
user-authentication10
api10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
nestjs10
wpgraphql9
typescript-types9
prisma9
wordpress-graphql9
typescript9
typescripts9
graphql9
database-design8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hoppscotch/hoppscotch
Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io (open-source alternative to Postman, Insomnia)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:177 reviews, 65 PRs, 116 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Balu primarily contributed to the back-end of the Hoppscotch project. Their work included refactoring the pubsub module, modifying the auth module for magic link and SSO authentication, and implementing new authentication routes with supporting guards and interceptors. They also made changes to the database schema, and updated the user model with new properties.
api-testingdeveloper-toolspwavuetesting-tools
balub/Kanji-Whatsapp-Bot
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
A simple WhatsApp bot built using Twilio and Python to help learn Kanji for Japanese Learners.
Contributions:35 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 2 months
pythonwhatsapptwiliobotjapanese
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