Sowmya Balasubramanian
Software Engineer at ESnet, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSowmya Balasubramanian is a software engineer with 12 years of experience designing and shipping production-quality distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, primarily on Google Cloud Platform. She has deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Kafka, ELK, Ansible, and streaming data pipelines (Apache Beam/Dataflow), and has built telemetry ingestion, multi-node Elasticsearch clusters, and Kafka deployments using operators. Equally comfortable in Java and Python, she has led full software lifecycles from requirements and roadmap planning to release management and observability. Her background includes prototyping gNMI-based streaming to Pub/Sub and packaging Logstash pipelines for Kubernetes—work that bridges networking telemetry and cloud-native processing. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and active at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/ESnet, she also mentors students and leads diversity and inclusion initiatives, bringing a blend of technical depth and people-centered leadership. An inquisitive technologist, she enjoys experimenting with new tools and translating research-grade networking ideas into reliable production services.
12 years of coding experience
Chinmaya VidyalayaAnna University, ChennaiMS, Information Networking, MS, Information Networking at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Hindi, Tamil, Sanskrit
Github Skills (30)
directories9
prebuild8
shared-libraries8
measurement8
bitbake8
filemaker7
libgit27
perl7
linux7
version-control7
registers6
graph6
utilities6
scheduler5
daemon4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
esnet/simple-lookup-service
Jan 2015 - Dec 2022
sLS code
Contributions:14 releases, 258 commits, 34 PRs in 8 years
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