Karan Balani
Senior Software Engineer (Platform)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolKaran Balani is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend architecture and platform infrastructure with 9 years of experience building scalable, cost-efficient systems. He has a strong track record re-architecting mission-critical products—moving serverless stacks to Kubernetes, cutting cloud costs by large margins, and delivering sub-second analytics pipelines using ClickHouse, Kafka, and Redis. Comfortable across Rust, Go, and Python, he focuses on performance-critical code and pragmatic infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and ArgoCD. At FinBox he led efforts that scaled services 15–20x and reduced AWS spend by ₹50L/month, and more recently has been driving supply-chain AI platform work and platform engineering at SigNoz. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer whose work “fades into the background and just works,” combining reliability-first thinking with a knack for measurable operational gain. Based in Bengaluru, he balances deep systems expertise with an eye for simplicity and long-term maintainability.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering at GLA University
Sindhi, Hindi, English
Github Skills (194)
expressjs10
actix-web10
rest-api10
flask10
async10
fiber10
android-application10
mvvm-architecture10
nodejs10
happy10
middleware9
data-analytics9
xps9
golang9
data-visualization9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
balanikaran/balanikaran.github.io
Feb 2019 - May 2022
My portfolio website.
Contributions:2 reviews, 70 commits, 29 PRs in 3 years 4 months
cssjavascriptreact
balanikaran/GLAUFirewallAuthenticator
Aug 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:76 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
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