Venkat Kalyan Balasubramanian

Platform Engineer at Westbrook Financial · Platform engineering · service mesh, Backstage

Westbrook Financial

Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

1+ years experience

Manipal Institute of Technology

English, Hindi, Kannada

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Overview

Platform Engineer at Westbrook Financial, focused on platform engineering. Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 27 a week to 2. Most at home with Backstage and Kubernetes. Coffee nerd.

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Roles in platform engineering
Speaking or podcast invitations
Working sessions on Kubernetes
Thoughtful intros to people in my field

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Courses and coaching offers
Requests to fix your code for free

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills

BackstageKubernetesGoobservabilityservice mesh

Open to workLooking for a role

closes in 3 months

Next role: Platform Engineer in gaming, Bengaluru or hybrid

Target roles: Platform Engineer
Level: Senior
Industries: B2B SaaS, AI infrastructure
Work mode: Hybrid
Available: Immediately
Work authorization: Indian citizen, open to relocating
What I'm looking for: Scope to lead platform engineering work, with a manager who gives direct feedback.
Not interested in: Night shifts

1 years in platform engineering. Strongest at Kubernetes and Backstage. Serving notice now.

Bengaluru, India · remote OKservice meshbackstageobservability

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Experience

Platform Engineer
Dec 2025 - Present
Westbrook Financial · 10 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
- Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 17 a week to 4.
- Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 492ms to 76ms.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from developer platform

2026

What went wrong and what worked while scaling platform engineering.

Open-source service mesh toolkit

2024

A small library for platform engineering that 379 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

Manipal Institute of Technology
B.Tech, Mathematics
2020 - 2024

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