Balachandar Sankar
Engineering Manager at StackAdapt
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBalachandar Sankar is a software engineering manager in the San Francisco Bay Area with over 15 years of experience building scalable platforms. He currently leads engineering at Yahoo, guiding product delivery and technical strategy as an Engineering Manager since 2018, after earlier roles as a software engineer at Yahoo, RMS, and Polyvore. His career spans hands-on development to people leadership, with a strong foundation in computer science from Anna University and a Master of Science in Software Engineering from San Jose State University. He is known for mentoring teams, fostering reliable architectures, and delivering scalable systems in fast-paced environments. Based in San Francisco, he brings a global mindset shaped by his education in India and professional experience across multiple prominent tech companies. A balanced mix of technical depth and leadership, he focuses on building maintainable systems and growing engineering talent.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityAnna University, ChennaiGithub contributions (5)
bala-sankar/Playground
Jun 2014 - Oct 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 38 pushes in 7 years 5 months
bala-sankar/ProjectEuler
Sep 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:14 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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