Balwant Kothari
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at VMware
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolBalwant Kothari is a Senior Member of Technical Staff with 9 years of professional experience building reliable backend systems and leading engineering efforts across enterprise firms. He has held senior engineering and staff roles at VMware, R3, HERE Technologies, Morgan Stanley and Apple, bringing deep expertise in distributed systems, backend development and QA. At R3 he contributed to Corda, a widely used open-source blockchain platform, tackling JDK 17 compatibility and persistence-test issues—an indicator of hands-on maintenance in complex, production-grade codebases. Balwant combines practical QA instincts with backend engineering, often resolving subtle platform and test flakiness that enable smoother upgrades and deployments. Based in Mumbai, he pairs a B.Tech in Computer Science with a track record of driving cross-functional technical improvements in large organizations.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Computer Science Engineering, B.Tech, Computer Science Engineering at Sir Padampat Singhania University
Github Skills (9)
kotlin10
javas10
java10
corda10
testing10
mockito9
distributed-ledger-technology9
junit9
distributed-ledger9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
corda/corda
Sep 2023 - Jan 2024
Corda is an open source blockchain project, designed for business from the start. Only Corda allows you to build interoperable blockchain networks that transact in strict privacy. Corda's smart contract technology allows businesses to transact directly, with value.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 11 PRs, 34 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Balwant primarily focused on addressing JDK 17 compatibility issues within the Corda codebase. This involved fixing test cases, removing or updating ignored annotations, and adjusting code to accommodate changes introduced in the newer JDK version. Additionally, the user modified tests related to database persistence, and configurations.
blockchainblockchain-networkcordasmart-contractskotlin
balwantkothari/accm
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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