Manishankar Balasubramanian
Senior Software Engineer at Uber
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolManishankar Balasubramanian is a Senior Software Engineer with 9 years of experience building large-scale, production-grade distributed systems and cloud-native services from Bengaluru. He has driven reliability and efficiency at scale—architecting DR for HBase across PBs of data, designing tiered caching and insight-generation pipelines with Hadoop/Spark, and migrating critical services to Kubernetes for high availability. At Flipkart he led impactful platform work including an in-house translation gateway for 11 Indian languages and aggressive UGC optimizations that cut data and memory footprints by ~90% while enabling 10x throughput. Now at Uber, he continues to focus on distributed everything, combining deep systems knowledge with pragmatic engineering to deliver measurable business outcomes. A CEG alumnus, he pairs strong academic foundations with a habit of filing patents and shipping resilient, production-first solutions.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Information Technology, 8.7, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Information Technology, 8.7 at College of Engineering, Guindy
English, Tamil, Hindi
Github Skills (26)
k8s-operator6
java-agent6
instrumentation6
java6
hbase6
synchronous5
bytecode5
code-generation5
virtual-machine5
kubernetes-operator4
consistency4
replication4
operator-sdk4
client-go3
kubebuilder3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
manishankarbalu/CampusPlacement
Dec 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 2 years 3 months
manishankarbalu/DCGAN
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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