# Santhosh Kumar Bala Krishnan

> Principal Software Engineer at ConductorOne

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/santhoshkumarbalakrishnan

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ ConductorOne
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Architect @ Okta
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Principal Software Engineer @ Okta
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Okta Enduser Dashboard redesign

- Fresh cleaner design built alongside a new Design System
- Built from scratch using React + TypeScript
- 2x faster loadtime
- Improved responsiveness and accessibility. WCAG AA compliant.
- Increased customer retention and satisfaction score

### Staff Software Engineer @ Okta
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Built BYOCode Custom Sign-In and error pages
- Built Admin Managed Tabs where admins can customize the "day-one" experience for an enduser.

### Senior Member of Technical Staff @ VMware
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto
VMware SaaS project

•	Spearheading the UI effort on VMware’s high priority project.
•	Setting up the design and quality standards for the product. Working with management to lay out the stories for the team.

VMware vSphere – Platform Services Controller

•	Launched UI that lets users manage Single Sign On, Active Directory, users and certificates.
•	Lead the effort to convert action based UI to task based UI, which significantly reduced the amount of clicks required to accomplish a task.

VMware vSphere – VMware Appliance Management Interface

•	Launched interface that lets users manage networking, updates, logging and monitor usage statistics of the underlying appliance OS where vSphere is running on.
•	Lead the effort to give a design overhaul that received very positive feedback.
•	Converted text-based interface to a graphical interface that gives a visual representation of data for easier understandability.

### Intern @ Invidio
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Philadelphia
Helped build a tool which lets users purchase what they see in a video, from within the video. Also, as the technical lead, helped other interns solve problems from the technical front

### Instructor - Web Design and Development @ Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Conducted two 5-day workshops and helped students learn HTML/CSS, JavaScript, PHP-MySQL and gave an introduction to web hosting services.

### Intern @ MindTree Ltd.
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Remote Internship Program
1) Created a web platform for tracing requirements to the related software engineering documents created by the organization.
2) Implemented using JSP, AJAX and Oracle 10g. Worked in the Netbeans environment.


## Education
### Master of Science in Engineering in Computer and Information Sciences, General
University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia

### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science and Engineering
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bsanth
- Portfolio: http://lifeuniverseandeverything.in
- Portfolio: http://www.santhosh.cc

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Source: https://flows.cv/santhoshkumarbalakrishnan
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Last updated: 2026-04-12