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Balaji Kandaswamy

Balaji Kandaswamy

Distinguished Engineer
Bangalore

Summary

An outstanding performer in building information retrieval and distributed computing system. Proven success in leadership, operational excellence and organizational development with keen understanding of elements of business. Recognized for inspiring management team members to excel and encouraging creative work environments.

Overview

3
3
years of post-secondary education
24
24
years of professional experience

Work History

Distinuguished Engineer

Trellix
Bengaluru
05.2021 - Current
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams with a size of 40 to design and develop cutting-edge software solutions.
  • Delivered high-quality documentation on system architecture, enabling seamless knowledge transfer among team members.
  • Led the migration of legacy systems to modern architectures that enabled integrations with other Trellix products.
  • Optimized the complete control flow and improved the entire endpoint system performance by 5%.

Senior Principal Software Engineer

DELL EMC Corporation
Bengaluru
12.2015 - 05.2021
  • Planned and developed interfaces using Elastic Search that simplified overall application search needs and improved the performance of the overall system by 30%.
  • Evaluated project requirements and specifications, and developed software applications that surpassed client expectations.
  • Consulted with engineering team members to determine system loads and develop improvement plans.
  • Planned and developed enabling SAML sign-on, performant bulk update, secured script engine runtime, and so on.

Technical Lead

Thomson Reuters Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
01.2012 - 12.2015
  • Led more than two teams, and oversaw their development activities.
  • Worked closely with other business analysts, development teams, and infrastructure specialists to deliver high-availability solutions for mission-critical applications.

Team Leader

Photon Infotech Private Ltd
01.2008 - 01.2012
  • Mentored and guided employees ensuring all were trained in product knowledge and capable of performing assigned duties

Software Developer

Sify Pvt Ltd
05.2006 - 01.2008
  • Modified existing ERP software to correct coding errors, upgrade interfaces and improve overall performance

Software Engineer

Sushai Systems Pvt Ltd
06.2002 - 05.2006
  • Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded client expectations

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai
01.1999 - 01.2002

Skills

Java and J2EE

C and C

NET Technologies

Information Retrieval

AI and ML

Accomplishments

  • Received presidential award for the intellectual use of Elastic Search to solve scale problem in the product.
  • Developed an information retrieval system and implemented performant serialization technique
  • Designed and developed integration software for Application-Oriented network by intercepting more complex protocols like Oracle and Tibco JMS and IBM JMS.

Timeline

Distinuguished Engineer

Trellix
05.2021 - Current

Senior Principal Software Engineer

DELL EMC Corporation
12.2015 - 05.2021

Technical Lead

Thomson Reuters Pvt Ltd
01.2012 - 12.2015

Team Leader

Photon Infotech Private Ltd
01.2008 - 01.2012

Software Developer

Sify Pvt Ltd
05.2006 - 01.2008

Software Engineer

Sushai Systems Pvt Ltd
06.2002 - 05.2006

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Madurai Kamaraj University
01.1999 - 01.2002
Balaji KandaswamyDistinguished Engineer