# Balaji Cherukuri

> Founding Software Engineer at getvinci.ai

Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/balajicherukuri

Results-driven and visionary technology leader with over 17 years of experience in software development, engineering, and leadership.

## Work Experience
### Founding Software Engineer @ Vinci4D.ai
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Manager, Engineering Manager, Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Carbon
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | Redwood City, California, United States
Technical:
- Leading printer operating system, Hardware Integration, cloud services, and custom part preparation
pipeline.
- Built SSO integration with Okta OpenID.
- Leading the sandboxing customer custom script execution environment.
- Leading the re-implementing of print preparation workflow and deprecating old flow.
- Led the printerOS upgrade from Ubuntu16 to Ubuntu20.
- Led the developer docker env upgrade from Ubuntu16 to Ubuntu20.

People Skills:
- I grew the team from 3 people to 10+ people in two locations, with two managers. Most of the hiring is
via self-recruiting.
- Created a software team from the ground up in India that has grown to five people.
- Developed and executed the software development strategy, aligning it with the company's overall
business goals and objectives.
- Oversaw the end-to-end software development lifecycle, from concept and design to development,
testing, deployment, and maintenance.
- Conducted performance reviews, mentored team members, and identified talent for promotion.

### Senior Engineer - Data @ Uber
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Driving efforts to define and execute the next version of Schema Management for Online and Offline Uber use-cases. Schema format examples are Avro, Thrift, protobuf, etc.

https://eng.uber.com/uber-big-data-platform/
https://eng.uber.com/hoodie/

### Senior Engineer - Tech Lead @ AVMaps @ Uber
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater Pittsburgh Area
Working as a Tech Lead in Autonomous Vehicle Maps(AVMaps) Organization’s sub-team of size five. Lead efforts to improve the availability of Map Storage Services from 90% to 99.9%. 

- Architected Map Storage solution which can provide 99.9% availability without losing latency SLAs.
- Lead execution of migration of Map Storage Systems to new Architecture.
- Interacted with various teams across the organization like Perception, Infrastructure, Simulation, Motion Planning, Web Apps etc to collect requirements, architecture reviews, and also to resolve issues with migration.
- Lead development of Map and Map Features versioning in Copy-on-write(COW) fashion, this is a centric piece to map generation workflow.
- Lead immutable read-heavy(>300K ops/sec) read-only maps cache which helps to provide low latency high throughput map access.

### Senior Engineer @ ATG Cluster Infra @ Uber
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Worked ATG Cluster Infra, which includes adding metrics and alerting to HRM Scheduler, FreeNAS and Lustre File Systems.

### Member of Technical Staff @ NetApp
Jan 2008 – Jan 2016 | Cranberry Twp, PA
- Lead efforts to simplify migrating older (7-Mode) DataONTAP storage systems to modern horizontally
scalable DataONTAP storage systems.
- Conducted various User Experience / Usability studies of the migration process, which helped to
improve the overall workflow.
- Lead efforts to make code coverage as a part of the Continuous Integration build process; this helped
improve the quality of code submissions and test coverage.
- Contributed to DataONTAP virtualization, one of NetApp DataONTAP's critical offerings.
- Implemented various distributed systems components such as Job Manager, adding features to the
replicated database.

### Software Engineer @ Aricent
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008
Worked on Real Time Billing System, involved in new feature implementations, porting from sco unix to linux and bug fixes.


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-05