Lokesh Balakrishnan
Staff Engineer Software Data - Apple Maps
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLokesh Balakrishnan is a Staff Engineer specializing in large-scale data infrastructure and real-time analytics, currently shaping Apple Maps' data platform after leading personalization data efforts at Netflix. Over 13 years he has designed and productionized high-throughput streaming and batch pipelines (Flink, Spark, Kafka, Storm) that routinely handle millions of messages per second and power experimentation, personalization, and core subscriber datasets. He has a strong track record of solving operational challenges—zero-downtime cluster upgrades, security hardening for Kafka, cross-cluster replication tools—and driving infrastructure prototypes into high-impact product features. Based in California with a master's from Georgia Tech, he combines deep systems tuning and release engineering experience with a practical focus on observability and scalable deployments. An engineer who moves between hands-on coding and technical leadership, he’s known for turning ambitious real-time use cases into reliable, secure production systems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, 4, Master's Degree, Computer Science, 4 at Georgia TechBE, Computers, 87.5, BE, Computers, 87.5 at SSN College of Engineering
Github Skills (9)
kafka-cluster10
scala9
ksqldb9
kafka-connect9
kafka9
apache-kafka9
big-data8
apache7
agora6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
MichaelHoffmann/AGORA
Sep 2012 - Nov 2015
Contributions:95 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 2 months
agora
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