Shreyas Balakrishna
Engineering Manager at PlayHQ Sports
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolShreyas Balakrishna is a proactive, hands-on engineering manager with 12 years of experience scaling product and firmware teams across Australia and New Zealand. He blends deep embedded and firmware expertise with product-focused leadership, having progressed from firmware architect and lead engineer roles into engineering and culture leadership at companies like Halter, Culture Amp, and now PlayHQ Sports. Known for building high-performing teams and pragmatic delivery processes, he’s equally comfortable in the trenches shipping embedded systems or coaching engineers through product delivery. Based in Melbourne, he brings a continuous-learning mindset—an aspiring reader and craftsman—alongside a personable leadership style shaped by roles as culture lead and ERG advisor. Off the clock he’s a proud father and cricket fanatic, a detail that underscores his collaborative, team-first approach.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bursary, Bursary at Auckland Grammar SchoolBachelor of Engineering (Hons) Computer Systems, Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) Computer Systems at The University of Auckland
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Github Skills (200)
json-parser10
parser10
restructuredtext10
testing10
test-framework10
printf10
to-do10
menu10
floating-point10
embedded10
rake10
ansi-c10
cpp10
dependency-tree10
javascript10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
shreyasbharath/cpp-dependency-graph
Mar 2018 - Jan 2023
A Ruby gem that generates useful visualisations (dot, d3.js) to study the architecture of C/C++ projects
Contributions:7 releases, 84 commits, 12 PRs in 4 years 10 months
ruby-gemdotrubyd3-jsgem
shreyasbharath/conan-package-binary-example
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 month
headerpackagingbinariesconanconsumption
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