Balu George
Staff Engineer at Kong Inc.
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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RockstarBalu George is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and automating cloud-native and on-prem infrastructure, currently based in Bengaluru. He has led end-to-end deployments and IaC efforts (Terraform, Helm), CI/CD (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins), and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana) across products at Kong, Amagi and Nutanix. His background spans from building automated OpenShift and EKS platforms to creating event-driven data pipelines and reducing build times and operational toil through automation and security improvements. He has driven ISO 27001 readiness and delivered high-availability systems including Kafka, ELK, and multi-node databases, consistently handling escalations and mentoring teams. Notably, he built one-click deployment flows tying Packer, Terraform and Ansible with custom Python wrappers—bringing reproducible infra to production environments. He combines deep hands-on systems engineering with pragmatic leadership that accelerates product releases and stabilizes complex distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (40)
javascript10
api-platform10
api-design10
insomnia10
api-client10
css10
websocket10
http-client10
api10
rest10
mocking10
graphql10
rest-api10
nodejs10
curl10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
balugeorge/aws_inventory
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
balugeorge/docker_openvpn
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 day
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