Balachandar K.

Balachandar K. is a highly experienced technology leader, currently serving as Principal Software Engineer and Director for the Duet Generative AI platform at Google since May 2022. Prior to this role, Balachandar held similar leadership positions at Meta, where responsibilities included overseeing core ad events infrastructure and privacy initiatives from October 2020 to March 2022. Balachandar's extensive career at Google spanned from June 2011 to September 2020, with progressive roles involving management of data processing pipelines and real-time backends for Google Analytics. An early career included positions at Riverbed Technology and Starent Networks (now Cisco Systems). Balachandar holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from Anna University.