About me
I'm a software engineer specializing in startups and open source, with expertise in low-level systems, native Node.js addons, and performance-critical application.
- I'm the original author of the RemotePC Linux App , an Electron.js desktop app with Linux services and native node modules for real-time remote streaming.
- On the RemotePC R&D team, achieved >30 FPS streaming by offloading the pipeline—desktop capture, RGB-to-YUV conversion, H.264 encoding/decoding—to GPU via hardware acceleration and FFmpeg, slashing resource use.
- Built and led the RemotePC Linux team from hiring to delivery of a production-grade app.
- Created IDrive BMR's partner manage remote access using WebRTC and signaling servers.
- Contributed to Postman's Linux ARM desktop app support. Contributed to postman desktop application's launch performance optimizations by 20%.
- Maintaining and revamping Ajv-Plus JSON Schema Validator for full JSON Schema compliance.
Available for consulting on C/C++, hardware accelerated video, native Node addons, Ajv-Plus, JSON Schema, architecture. reaching out
What i'm doing
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JSON Schema
While JSON is probably the most popular format for exchanging data, JSON Schema needs a lot more awareness.
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Ajv-Plus
The most popular JSON Schema Validator needs maintainance and direction. Maintaining the fork of Ajv.
Testimonials
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Raghu Kulkarni, CEO, IDrive Inc.
Frankly speaking, you have contributed more to the company than most people. Innovation is not easy. Most people do just routine work. Very few actually create something new and ground breaking. I don't think in our entire company we have created ground breaking products except in web viewer, HW acceleration etc..This was truly impressive. Thank you. You deserved the best innovation award.
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Jayaram Karanth, Head of RemotePC, IDrive Inc.
You are one of the excellent resource whom I have worked in recent years. We did many achievements like beat webviewer performance, h/w accelerate to windows, linux rpc, WebRTC based remote access to BMR which is new for us and many more. I really appreciate your R & D work.
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Juan Cruz Viotti, Sourcemeta Founder | JSON Schema TSC
Bala is a proficient JavaScript developer with experience working with large-scale cross-platform desktop apps (like Postman) using frameworks like Electron both as an individual contributor and as an architect. Bala can confidently find his way through on macOS, GNU/Linux, and Windows and has recently been learning native application development with C and C++ on GTK/GNOME and Win32.
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Kousik Satish, Google | NIT Trichy
Bala was a wonderful mentor and was pivotal in guiding the team to build RemotePC for Linux from scratch. When given a problem, he always tries to find many different ways of solving it and then evaluates the best out of it. This is a quality which has personally inspired me and his research has helped the firm in finding unique and new solutions. Apart from work, he always maintains his calm and keeps the environment lively. He is definitely a very good team player and a leader who is capable of adding value in any role he is presented with.
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Leela Shankar Adhimulam, AI Growth Hacker | Entrepreneur | Public Speaker | Content Creator
Balakrishna is immensely knowledgeable and loves whatever he does. He works hard and is an excellent team player, always helping and guiding his peers and subordinates. He helped us a lot in clearing many bugs and dependency issues. Never miss a chance to work with him!
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Ravish Hebbani.V, Associate Manager HR at IDrive Software India Pvt Ltd
Balakrishna is a smart at work, highly dedicated individual hired through NITK Campus! I would highly recommend him for any of Linux or any new assignment,he is a creative & innovative thinker and he was one of the best resource too in IDrive" All the best to you Balakrishna and I am sure you will continue the good work.
