Summary
Balarka Velidi is a seasoned staff software engineer specializing in Android, with a decade of experience delivering scalable consumer apps. Since 2017, he has led Android development at Intuit for QuickBooks Mobile and QuickBooks Self-Employed, delivering features that improve cash flow, invoicing, taxes, and user engagement for SMB customers. He combines deep mobile expertise with full-stack capabilities, contributing to web and backend initiatives for QuickBooks.com and complex payments workflows earlier in his career. A proven mentor and cross-functional leader, he fosters engineering growth, robust instrumentation, and data-driven decision making to boost adoption and retention. Based in San Francisco, he holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a B.Tech in Computer Science from Andhra University, with hands-on experience across Kotlin, Java, JavaScript, React, Ruby, and backend infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Computer Science, B.Tech, Computer Science at Andhra University
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago
English