Balaji Arumugam

I'm a Software Engineer specialising in Backend Engineering. Gathered well over 3 years of experience and counting.
Enjoy solving diverse problems, from cubes to NP-hard and 2-SAT. I'm currently working w/ Walmart Labs, India.

baaalaji.arumugam@gmail.com
in/baaalaji
github/b0a04gl

Industry Timeline

• Walmart Global Tech India, BLR, IN.                                           June, 2023 - Present

SDE-3

- Driving new features in the Sam's Club Garage, enabling $15 million in revenue.
- Contributed to Future Inventory flow, facilitating orders against stock yet to arrive.
- Involved in code reviews, implemented TDD style of development.
- Participated in few Hackathons and hosted few Brown Bag sessions.
- Received Excellence award for above contributions.

• Walmart Global Tech India, BLR, IN.                                          June, 2021 - June, 2023

SDE-2 

- Cut cloud costs by $600k yearly using optimisation techniques (saved team money).
- Made a service that migrated 50 million records to a NextGen system in just one day.
- Created tools that fixed testing data automatically, saving time for the team.
- Received Bravo award for above contributions.

• Infotix, Chennai, IN.                                                                     August, 2020 - Nov, 2020

SDE Intern

- Developed a Rentals Mobile App enabling users to search and post properties.

• Samsung R&D Institue, BLR, IN.                                               May, 2020 - August, 2020

SDE Intern 

- Reduced load time of SmartThings android app by 800ms.
- Contributed to research of emulating Smart TV media controls.

• IIT Madras, Chennai, IN.                                                             May, 2019 - June, 2019

Research Intern 

- Enhanced the precision of the UR5e Arm's motion planning by 68%.
- Achieved above through the development of a context-aware computer vision algorithm.