# Balajee Nagasubramaniam

> Data @ Uber

Location: Dublin, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/balajee

Software Development in Distributed Systems & Networking  for Telecommunication and Storage industries .

Specialties: Distributed systems & Networking Infrastructure, HPC, SDN, SDS

- Software development experience in FreeBSD, Plan9, VxWorks and Linux Kernels.
- Concurrent, multi-threaded programming (both kernel threads & User space) on real time distributed systems.
- Deep understanding of kernel networking stack, memory management and scheduler infrastructure.
- Experience in Load Balancing of traffic between SMP Cores/networking threads, as well as load balancing of intra-cluster traffic between distributed storage system nodes.
- Experience in System profiling and performance bench marking, analysis of performance data, identifying performance bottlenecks and driving system performance improvement efforts.
- Experience working with distributed systems consensus/Quorum protocols (Paxos like implementation,  familiarity with ZAB, Raft).
- Networking:  Deep understanding of TCP/IP,  IP/MPLS forwarding plane, IP routing, MPLS protocols, ethernet, VLAN, QinQ, VxLAN, and kernel infrastructure.
- Storage:  Well-versed in Write-Any-File-Layout, HDFS, structured hierarchical file systems as well as distributed, elastic key-value stores.
-Security: Enhanced AES GCM (asm library) to support scatter-gather-lists, that contain data in non-contiguous buffers.  Good understanding of OpenSSL/TLS implementation, certificate management, key negotiation.
- Implemented IPv6 support on plan9 (from scratch), DHCPv4/v6, Video-on-demand services.
- 4 patents filed in distributed systems and security areas.

- Good understanding of open source Internet technologies:  Mesos(internals), Casandra, Zookeeper(internals), Kafka, Memcached(internals)/Redis, Spark (internals), nginx/HAProxy, ProtoBuf, Docker and Kubernetes

- Languages:  Expert in C, C++   Working knowledge in: Go, Java, Scala, LISP/Scheme & Perl, Python scripting.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Uber
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Staff Engineer @ VMware
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, California

### Senior Software Engineer @ NetApp
Jan 2011 – Jan 2016 | Sunnyvale CA

### Senior Software Engineer @ Ericsson
Jan 2006 – Jan 2011

### Software Engineer @ Ericsson
Jan 1999 – Jan 2005

### Software Engineer @ FORE Systems
Jan 1997 – Jan 1999

### Software Engineer @ CoSystems Inc, Sunnyvale, CA
Jan 1996 – Jan 1997

### Software Engineer @ Wipro Systems/Nortel Networks - Mountainview California
Jan 1994 – Jan 1996

### Software Intern @ UB Information and Consultancy Services - Bangalore - India
Jan 1993 – Jan 1994


## Education
### MBA
Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business

### MSc in Computer Science
PSG - Bharathiar University -  India

### BSc in Computer Science
Madurai Kamaraj University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/balajee-nagasubramaniam

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Last updated: 2026-04-12