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.
9 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 (174)
expressjs10
distributed-tracing10
actix-web10
jaeger10
opentelemetry10
flask10
monitoring10
ai-agent10
async10
ai10
android-application10
observability10
typescript10
apm10
go10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
karanbalani/GLAUFirewallAuthenticator
Aug 2018 - Apr 2021
Automatic Firewall Authentication for GLA University's Network
Contributions:76 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
authenticationfirewallandroidandroid-applicationandroid-development
balanikaran/getset-web-server
Apr 2019 - Jan 2026
A simple node.js server to provide endpoints to the getset CLI Tool
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
clinodejs-serverdockerexpressjsjavascript
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