BALAKUMAR K.

ABOUT

A career built
by building.

I’m Balakumar, a software engineer and technical lead based in Chennai. I’ve worked at Zoho since 2013.

How I got here

I studied aeronautical engineering, then taught myself software engineering through work. I started in mobile quality assurance, moved into automation and Java framework development, and went on to build distributed platform components.

At QEngine, I worked on the execution infrastructure behind web and mobile automation and led the server team from 2020 to 2023. Today, my work at Zoho Creator spans agent orchestration, application-building agents, and interactive page authoring.

What connects the work

I enjoy taking a problem across its boundaries: from the execution runtime to the network, from generated markup to the live interface, and from a research prototype to something a product team can use.

My experience includes hands-on implementation, architecture and code reviews, mentoring, and coordination across product teams.

Tools I work with

Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Docker, Kafka, Linux, MySQL, Cassandra, and PostgreSQL. The work also includes custom parsers, browser interfaces, event streaming, and agent evaluations.

Outside the job title

My path into software has involved learning new domains repeatedly. That experience shapes how I approach unfamiliar systems: understand how they work, build a small end-to-end version, then improve it with evidence.

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