Gowtham Balakrishnan
Lead Product Software Engineer at Wolters Kluwer
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGowtham Balakrishnan is a cloud-native software leader and hands-on engineer with eight years of professional experience and a decade-long track record designing resilient systems in C# and Java. Currently a Lead Product Software Engineer in Toronto, he has led global teams and owned architecture for mission-critical integration and reservation pipelines at Sabre, moving products from prototype to production with clear business outcomes. He specializes in microservices, event-driven systems, Kubernetes, GCP/AWS, and CI/CD automation, and holds an AWS Solutions Architect certification. Gowtham pairs pragmatic people leadership—mentoring engineers and establishing predictable delivery rhythms—with a strong operational focus on observability, cost-aware design, and actionable runbooks. He has driven migrations from legacy .NET to modern containerized .NET 8 deployments and built custom tooling like GraphQL client extensions and simulators to reproducibly test integrations. Beyond architecture, he’s known for reducing incidents and deployment friction through testing, security scanning, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MS, computer science, MS, computer science at The University of Texas at DallasB.E, Computer science, B.E, Computer science at PSG College of Technology
English, Tamil, Telugu
Github Skills (27)
facebook8
nhibernate7
apollo-link6
resolver6
dotnet6
csharp5
dataloader5
graphql5
dotnet-core5
asp-net5
asp-net-core5
relational5
linq5
criteria-api5
shake5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gowthambala/Solidity-Inventory-Management
Sep 2018 - Oct 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
gowthambala/Test-Repo
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Test repo
Contributions:5 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
test-repo
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