Balaji Shanmugam

Balaji Shanmugam is an accomplished Senior Data Platform Engineer at YipitData, with a robust background in data engineering. Prior experience includes leading data engineering initiatives at Kratos Gamer Network and Freo, where notable contributions involved developing incremental data frameworks, implementing alerting mechanisms, and creating a real-time data streaming system utilizing Kinesis and Delta Lake. Balaji has achieved significant cost reductions in data infrastructure through optimization techniques and has extensive experience in constructing CI/CD pipelines and integrating third-party data sources. Before roles at Freo and Kratos, Balaji worked at Razorpay and Zoho Corporation, enhancing data quality and transitioning architectures. Balaji holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology.