Bala Naga Gopala Krishnan
Engineering Manager
Porur, Chennai
Summary
Experienced Engineering Manager with 12 years of proven success. Proficient in translating intricate technical requirements into actionable features for product delivery. Recognized for decisive leadership and adept team-building skills, consistently delivering results-driven solutions.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Engineering Manager
DarioHealth
4 2022 - Current
- Hiring, Goal-setting, performance evaluation, mentorship, and fostering positive work environment
- Effectively led two Scrum teams totaling 15 engineers, overseeing development of cutting-edge software solutions in fast-paced, Agile environment
- Manage daily activities of development team
- Work with product management, design, support and other dev teams to create high-quality solutions
- Facilitate engineering team autonomy by assisting with project planning, prioritization, Agile process, and skill development
- Assess compliance, risks, and vulnerabilities to ensure all systems and baselines are operationally sound, performant at scale, and exceed customer expectations
- Provide technical guidance for systems and process optimization opportunities and participate in architectural reviews
- Support growth of engineers via hiring, goal setting, development of individual development plans, and performance reviews
- Collaborate with peer teams on complex, global engineering efforts to ensure architecture agreement, resource coordination, and implementation timelines
- Build roadmap with Product team to revamp support escalation process and software releases to improve efficiency by 20%
- Plan, design and execute to ensure engineering excellence
Senior Software Engineer
17Live
02.2021 - 04.2022
- Part of backend team of 17live, live video streaming app, closely associate with machine learning team
- Responsible for maintaining and monitoring video pipeline, data pipeline and ML models and complete 100% OKR completion rate for backend team each quarter
- Developed microservices in Spring boot to support Automated suggestion project / Threat detection project / Sending push notifications with One Signal and Firebase Cloud Messaging
- Handled customer support and resolved high priority issues on time
- E2E responsibilities include plan for OKR, come up with milestones, development, testing and deployment of application along with support
- Reduced the GCP cost by 25% with optimizing the GKE workloads
- By interest, joined chatter project - football commentary android app development team and built REST API's for app
Senior Software Engineer II
Collabnet
06.2016 - 10.2020
- ALM enterprise product developed in J2EE stack.
- As team lead, responsible for delivery of features and as individual contributor developed predominantly working on backend but also on demand and requirement has worked on frontend as well.
- REST API’s developed in Golang and exposed as microservice.
- Also played key role interacting with Product owner and other stake holders in project and ensures smooth delivery of project on time.
- Worked closely with product manager to maintain optimum levels of communication to effectively and efficiently complete projects.
- Managed team of 7 employees, overseeing hiring, training, and professional growth of employees.
Senior Software Engineer
Honeywell Technology Solutions
07.2012 - 06.2016
- Developed web application in JSF based framework (Icefaces).
- As team member, responsible to develop, test and deploy software. Along with this project many POC’s have been done with HTML5 technology.
- Developed web application in jQuery Mobile (HTML5) and deployed as native app in windows
- As team member, responsible to develop, test and deploy software. The project has been developed in HTML5 framework and later using Apache Cordova (PhoneGap) to convert it to native windows app and it has been used in mobile and tablets by users in manufacturing plant.
- E2E responsibilities from requirement gathering, wireframe, prototype, development, testing, deployment, support, user training, etc.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - ECE
Thiagarajar College Of Engineering
Madurai 08.2008 - 05.2012
Skills
Leadership/Talent Management
Project Delivery/Business Communication
Agile/Scrum
Micro services/Apache Kafka/REST API/ SOAP
AWS Lambda functions/Step functions/EC2 instances/Cloudwatch/S3/SQS/SNS/SSM/Security Groups
Google Kubernetes Engine deployments/NFS/Redis/PubSub/PostgreSQL/VM in Google Cloud Platform/ Data Store
PostgreSQL / MS SQL Server/Big Query/ MongoDB
Java/ J2EE/Spring Boot/Hibernate/GoLang/NodeJs
HTML5, Javascript, CSS3, jQuery, Angular JS
Accomplishments
- OVOC done @ Honeywell Turbo Technologies for the proto resource Planning at Thaon Les Vosges, France User Persona / Rose Bud Thorn Analysis / OVOC findings implementation improved the application user experience.
- Innovation Award, OVOC Award Technical and People Leadership Award, Spot Award @ Honeywell
- Won hackathon winner award @ Collabnet
- 3 Team star award @ 17Live
- Able to deliver the project with high quality on time with 100% results for back to back on quarterly basis @ DarioHealth
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
17Live
02.2021 - 04.2022
Senior Software Engineer II
Collabnet
06.2016 - 10.2020
Senior Software Engineer
Honeywell Technology Solutions
07.2012 - 06.2016
Bachelor of Engineering - ECE
Thiagarajar College Of Engineering
08.2008 - 05.2012
Engineering Manager
DarioHealth
4 2022 - Current
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