Krishnan Balan
Director - Engineering | Flipkart | Yahoo | Paytm
- Role
- Engineering Leader at Wayfair
- Location
- Bengaluru, KA, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Krishnan Balan
Engineering Leader with 17 years of experience with top product companies like Wayfair, Flipkart, Yahoo and Fico, and Startups, building highly scalable and distributed systems.Experienced in independently owning and driving revenue generating products, feature development and quality - from concept and design stage to GA.Built new software development teams from ground up: driving innovation and managing high performance agile teamsExpertise in managing, motivating and leading teams including providing technical leadership and mentoring. Excellent Documentation, Communication and People Management skillsExperience in large scale distributed architecture, messaging system,various databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching systems, data model, quality engineering, test driven development, Automation frameworks and Agile developmentStrong Experience building and leading teams of close to 75+ engineers (senior leads, architects, EMs and Senior EMs)
Experience
Engineering Leader
Jan 2023 — Present · Bangalore Urban, IN
Wayfair is a global online retailer specialising in home goods and furniture with a revenue of over 10 billion. I lead multiple teams as part of the Network Inventory Management Platform supporting the Castlegate Program. Castlefate FCs contribute to 20% of the overall volume at Wayfair today.
Education
B. M. S. College of Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering - BE
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