Karan Balakrishnan
Engineering Team Lead at Bloomberg
Los Angeles, California, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKaran Balakrishnan is an Engineering Team Lead with 11 years' experience building large-scale backend systems and cross-platform mobile and web applications, currently leading Fixed Income Pricing engineering at Bloomberg in London. He is fluent in C++, Python, Swift, Objective-C and JavaScript, and has a track record of shipping high-performance pricing and charting systems that handle millions of rows and hybrid native/web interactions. Educated at USC with hands-on roots at SAP where he architected a custom iOS charting framework and migrated legacy codebases to modern memory management, Karan blends deep systems-level expertise with pragmatic product delivery. Equally comfortable in mobile UI detail and backend scalability, he’s been expanding into web development while maintaining a focus on financial engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaScience, Science at St. Joseph's Pre-University CollegeBishop Cotton Boys' SchoolBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at BMS Institute of Technology and Management
English, Hindi
Github Skills (6)
iris-recognition8
face-recognition4
csharp3
computer-vision3
face-detection3
emgucv1
Github contributions (5)
hitmank/bmsit-Iris-recognition
Aug 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 1 month
emgucviris-recognitionface-recognitionrecognitioncomputer-vision
hitmank/hitmank.github.io
Jun 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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