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Systems and P2P engineer. I build native cross-platform apps, real-time video pipelines, and peer-to-peer software that works without servers. Currently at Holepunch, bringing the Bare runtime to native apps everywhere.
Open to consulting and contract work. Let's talk.
Reach out- Co-authored the Swift port and contributing to the C port of Holepunch's RPC and schema stack, so one schema spec drives JS, Swift, and C peers.
- Original author of the RemotePC Linux App - real-time remote streaming at >30 FPS via GPU hardware acceleration and FFmpeg.
- Built and led the RemotePC Linux team from hiring to production.
- Contributed to Postman's Linux ARM desktop app and improved launch performance by 20%.
now
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Bare on Every Device
Native iOS, macOS, and Android hosts so a Bare app's P2P core runs unchanged on every platform - no per-platform rewrite.
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JSON Schema
Better JSON Schema validation - maintaining Ajv-Plus, a full JSON Schema-compliant fork of Ajv.
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Munduchoopu
A local-first personal wealth and expenses tracker. One shared core - Hypercore storage, typed hrpc - feeding native shells on every platform. (Telugu for "foresight")
Testimonials
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"Bala is a proficient JavaScript developer with experience working with large-scale cross-platform desktop apps (like Postman)... and has recently been learning native application development with C and C++."
Juan Cruz ViottiSourcemeta Founder, JSON Schema TSC -
"Very few actually create something new and ground breaking... This was truly impressive. You deserved the best innovation award."
Raghu KulkarniCEO, IDrive Inc. -
"We did many achievements like beat webviewer performance, h/w accelerate to windows, linux rpc, WebRTC based remote access... I really appreciate your R & D work."
Jayaram KaranthHead of RemotePC, IDrive Inc. -
"Bala was a wonderful mentor and was pivotal in guiding the team to build RemotePC for Linux from scratch... definitely a very good team player and a leader who is capable of adding value in any role."
Kousik SatishGoogle, NIT Trichy
