Summary
Hayk Baluyan is a Senior Member of Technical Staff with 12 years of experience building secure, scalable infrastructure for major cloud platforms, currently focused on code signing, signed container images, and secure boot at Salesforce. He previously scaled Azure’s secret management service at Microsoft, combining cryptographic protections with production-grade availability across global data centers. Comfortable across Go, Python, C#, and cloud-native tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, Etcd), he blends research-driven rigor from his MS in Computer Science with hands-on engineering to harden CI/CD and OS-level trust. Notably, he has integrated package and kernel module signing into real-world deployment pipelines and contributed to Spinnaker and Shielded VM workflows—work that sits at the intersection of platform security and developer velocity. Based in Redmond, Hayk pairs deep algorithmic curiosity with practical delivery, often tackling problems that require both cryptographic detail and large-scale systems thinking.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Yerevan State University
Master's Degree in Science, Computer Science, Master's Degree in Science, Computer Science at Masdar Institute of Science and Technology
Armenian, English, Russian