Sakthivel Balasubramaniam
Senior Backend Engineer at Backbase
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSakthivel Balasubramaniam is a Senior Backend Engineer with a decade of experience architecting high-performance, secure fintech and payments systems across Europe and India. He specializes in building cloud-native, fault-tolerant microservices and event-driven platforms using Java and Go, and has a proven track record of reducing latency and enabling zero-downtime migrations at scale. His work includes production-grade payment capabilities (UPI, IMPS, RTGS) and a Go-based bulk payments service that drove a 35% increase in business traffic. Comfortable across the full stack of protocols and tooling—from gRPC/Protobuf and Kafka to Kubernetes and Jaeger—he blends rigorous engineering practices like TDD/DDD with hands-on delivery. Beyond shipping code, he mentors engineers, runs workshops, and co-organized regional tech meetups, reflecting a strong commitment to community and knowledge sharing. Based in Amsterdam, he brings a pragmatic focus on measurable business impact from resilient, secure systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
G.K.D Matric Higher Secondary SchoolBachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer science and Engineering at Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College
English, Tamil
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Github Skills (56)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ImShakthi/lets-go
Aug 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
ImShakthi/just-java
Jul 2019 - Apr 2025
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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