About me
I'm a software engineer focused on systems-level work, open source, and p2p networking. Currently contributing to Holepunch — bringing the Bare runtime and its ecosystem to native mobile, so iOS and Android devices become full peers in p2p networks.
- Co-authored compact-encoding-swift, bare-rpc-swift, hyperschema-swift, and hrpc-swift — wire-compatible Swift implementations that let the same schema spec generate both JS and Swift peers.
- Original author of the RemotePC Linux App — Electron.js with Linux services and native Node.js modules for real-time remote streaming.
- Achieved >30 FPS streaming by moving the capture/encode pipeline to GPU via hardware acceleration and FFmpeg.
- Built and led the RemotePC Linux team from hiring to production.
- Created IDrive BMR's partner manage remote access using WebRTC and signaling servers.
- Contributed to Postman's Linux ARM desktop app and improved launch performance by 20%.
- Maintaining Ajv-Plus, a full JSON Schema-compliant fork of Ajv.
Available for consulting on C/C++, hardware-accelerated video, native Node addons, p2p networking, Ajv-Plus, and JSON Schema. Reach out.
What I'm doing
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Bare on Mobile
Bringing the Bare runtime and p2p ecosystem to native mobile — iOS via Swift and Android via Java — so phones and tablets become full peers in Holepunch networks.
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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 maintenance 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.
