Summary
Vijay Baliga is a Principal Member of Technical Staff based in Redmond with over two decades of software engineering experience and nine years in senior roles across Salesforce, Oracle, Tableau, and Microsoft. He designs and delivers high-performance backend and platform systems—ranging from cloud control planes and VCN services to scalable data-driven features and configuration management—often improving performance through thoughtful architecture like denormalized Solr indexing. Deep expertise in Java, C#/.NET, C++, SQL Server, Win32 and multithreaded systems enables him to work across low-level platform code and high-level application services while rapidly ramping on new technologies. A regular mentor and code-reviewer, he blends rigorous CS fundamentals with practical delivery, automated testing, and operational monitoring to ship reliable features at scale. Notably, he has driven complex rollouts such as Tableau Online’s data-driven alerting and implemented client-certificate systems at scale to validate performance under real-world loads. He holds a BS from IIT Kanpur and an MS from Indiana University Bloomington, reflecting a strong academic foundation underpinning his engineering leadership.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington