Abu Balanandan

Abu Balanandan is the current Chief Technology Officer at Octopus Interactive. Abu was previously a Lead Engineer at QBurst from April 2018 to August 2019. Prior to that, they were a Lead Engineer at QBurst from October 2012 to April 2018. Abu also worked as a Programmer Analyst Trainee at Cognizant from August 2010 to August 2011.

Abu Balanandan completed a B Tech in Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering at the College of Engineering in Trivandrum.

Abu Balanandan reports to Cherian Thomas, Co-founder & CEO. Some direct reports include David Armstrong - Senior Motion Graphics Artist, Abhiraj Deshpande - Senior Software Engineer, and Krishna Yeolekar - Software Engineer. Some of their coworkers include Shirish Verma - Chief Financial Officer, Ryan Bricklemyer - VP of Ad Operations & Product, and Lauren Diruggiero - Senior Director, Driver Retention & Communications.