Dinesh Balasubramanian
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Top SchoolDinesh Balasubramanian is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years' experience in platform and DevOps engineering, currently at Microsoft after multiple technical leadership roles at ThoughtWorks. A certified Kubernetes Administrator and polyglot developer with a passion for Go, he focuses on building resilient, cloud-native infrastructure and improving developer experience. He contributes to notable open-source projects such as ThoughtWorks' Talisman and SorintLab’s Stolon, where he enhanced detection performance with goroutines, improved cross-platform build tooling, and added test coverage for critical components. Based in Chennai, he pairs hands-on backend and DevOps skills with a pragmatic approach to automation and platform reliability, often improving tooling usability and developer workflows behind the scenes.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
SSLC, SSLC at RVG Hr.Sec School,UdumalpetBachelor's Degree, EEE, 8.94, Bachelor's Degree, EEE, 8.94 at PSG College of Technology
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Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
postgresql10
bash10
user-interface10
secrets10
git-hooks10
gitlab10
go10
precommit10
setstate10
pre-commit-hook10
dart10
flutter10
image9
testing9
ios9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
thoughtworks/talisman
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
Using a pre-commit hook, Talisman validates the outgoing changeset for things that look suspicious — such as tokens, passwords, and private keys.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 18 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Dinesh focused on improving the Talisman project by addressing errors and warnings, as well as incorporating code cleanup. They enhanced the report generation process in report.go. The user implemented and improved the use of goroutines for pattern and content detection. The user also worked on code cleanup, made improvements to the Talisman hook script for auto-updates, and added a progress bar for scanning operations.
pushtokensgit-hookshuskygo
sorintlab/stolon
Nov 2018 - Aug 2019
PostgreSQL cloud native High Availability and more.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 45 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Dinesh contributed to the project by implementing improvements to the build process, specifically making the `readlink` command cross-compatible with macOS. They also refactored the build script to correctly source the `readlinkdashf.sh` file. In addition, they added functionality to store only the last two Postgres timeline histories. They also added test coverage for the `activeProxiesInfos` method, and added test coverage for method `FindDB`
golangetcdavailabilitydeclarative-configdocker
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