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I'm Sridhar Bala, a tech leader and founder with 17+ years of experience in backend and frontend development across CRM, e-commerce, POS, and real estate. I blend hands-on coding with strategic leadership to deliver high-impact products, bridge technical goals with business outcomes, and foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. I enjoy building scalable architectures, mentoring cross-functional teams, and driving robust CI/CD, security, and performance improvements. When I'm not coding, I collaborate with stakeholders to align tech roadmaps with business strategy and help organizations grow with reliable, secure software.…I'm Sridhar Bala, a tech leader and founder with 17+ years of experience in backend and frontend development across CRM, e-commerce, POS, and real estate. I blend hands-on coding with strategic leadership to deliver high-impact products, bridge technical goals with business outcomes, and foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. I enjoy building scalable architectures, mentoring cross-functional teams, and driving robust CI/CD, security, and performance improvements. When I'm not coding, I collaborate with stakeholders to align tech roadmaps with business strategy and help organizations grow with reliable, secure software.

Sridhar Bala

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, Front-End Developer, +2

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I'm Sridhar Bala, a tech leader and founder with 17+ years of experience in backend and frontend development across CRM, e-commerce, POS, and real estate. I blend hands-on coding with strategic leadership to deliver high-impact products, bridge technical goals with business outcomes, and foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. I enjoy building scalable architectures, mentoring cross-functional teams, and driving robust CI/CD, security, and performance improvements. When I'm not coding, I collaborate with stakeholders to align tech roadmaps with business strategy and help organizations grow with reliable, secure software.…I'm Sridhar Bala, a tech leader and founder with 17+ years of experience in backend and frontend development across CRM, e-commerce, POS, and real estate. I blend hands-on coding with strategic leadership to deliver high-impact products, bridge technical goals with business outcomes, and foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. I enjoy building scalable architectures, mentoring cross-functional teams, and driving robust CI/CD, security, and performance improvements. When I'm not coding, I collaborate with stakeholders to align tech roadmaps with business strategy and help organizations grow with reliable, secure software.

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I’m Sridhar Bala, a tech leader and founder with 17+ years of experience in backend and frontend development across CRM, e-commerce, POS, and real estate. I blend hands-on coding with strategic leadership to deliver high-impact products, bridge technical goals with business outcomes, and foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

I enjoy building scalable architectures, mentoring cross-functional teams, and driving robust CI/CD, security, and performance improvements. When I’m not coding, I collaborate with stakeholders to align tech roadmaps with business strategy and help organizations grow with reliable, secure software.

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Work Experience

Full Stack Technical Leader / Founder at Posnic

October 1, 2025 - October 1, 2025

Founded and led BillMax, delivering POS billing, QR ordering, and kiosk solutions for retail and food businesses. Managed frontend and backend teams in an Agile environment, driving architecture decisions across microservices, API design, and DevOps practices. Implemented end-to-end features using Node.js (TypeScript), PHP (Laravel), React, Bootstrap, and MySQL. Integrated payments, real-time order assignment, and dynamic dashboards to improve operations and visibility. Standardized code quality through CI/CD pipelines, unit tests, and Swagger/OpenAPI documentation for over 200 APIs. Collaborated with business stakeholders to align technology with product goals and ensure secure, scalable deployments. Achievements include deploying QR-based ordering across 100+ outlets, migrating to Docker and Kubernetes for better scalability, delivering six key features that boosted user engagement by 28%, improving SQL performance six-fold with stored procedures, and supporting ISO audits with compl

Senior Software Engineer at PropertyGuru Group

August 1, 2022 - August 1, 2022

Owned microservices delivering essential data for 57K active users in a high-volume portal. Designed and implemented new API endpoints for a scalable SPA, enabling cohesive functionality across distributed services. Led full-stack development of a high-volume PWA with Redux, including payment gateway integration and fulfillment flows. Configured automated CI/CD to shorten time-to-market while improving deployment confidentiality. Resolved performance and scalability challenges in a critical customer-facing portal, delivering measurable improvements. Achievements include refactoring legacy codebase to microservices and a responsive dashboard, a 27% increase in dashboard engagement, and a large geo-data migration to improve listing accuracy.

DI Specialist at IBM

August 1, 2017 - August 1, 2017

Managed data integration for a CRM system supporting 100,000+ active users across 171 countries. Developed and optimized ETL batch jobs using CastIron (App Connect), MessageQ, and DataStage. Built secure public REST APIs to streamline data event management from SugarCRM, enabling reliable data processing and cross-team integration. Collaborated with cross-functional groups to map and transform legacy data for modern CRM systems, enhancing data accessibility and reliability. Achievements include improved data validation and error handling by 15%. Implemented a shell script to transform CRM opportunity data from DB2 to JSON, reducing processing time from 3 hours to 20 minutes.

Lead Engineer at POSNIC

October 1, 2016 - October 1, 2016

Architected an Open-Source POS application from scratch using PHP and MongoDB, with cloud-based provisioning that yielded 4x hosting cost reductions. Explored modern front-end approaches to accelerate high-volume SPA development and implemented offline capabilities via PWA service workers and IndexedDB. Achievements include delivering a fully loaded cloud POS within a year and enabling offline transactions to reduce static traffic.

Assistant Manager at Aditya Birla Group

August 1, 2015 - August 1, 2015

Provided technical and leadership support for 3 development teams (including a contract team) and 12 freshers. Conducted requirements assessment using Agile & Scrum for a high-volume customer-facing portal, prioritizing development activities and reducing ad hoc requests by 27%. Collaborated with stakeholders on large e-commerce projects and integrated SAP POS & SCM with e-commerce orders. Achievements include enabling Elasticsearch Aggregation to reduce loading times by 60% and improving team efficiency through agile tooling.

PHP Lead at IBM (Experis Contract)

July 1, 2014 - July 1, 2014

Led a 6-person team migrating IBM Siebel CRM to SugarCRM. Conducted requirements gathering and validation, acted as Scrum Master, and facilitated stakeholder interactions. Contributed to onboarding efficiency, reducing onboarding time by 30%. Delivered a POC to guide CRM decision-making and achieved data retrieval improvements from 1.3 minutes to under 1 second. Awarded POD of the Year in 2013 for outstanding contribution.

Tech Lead at YAHOO

December 1, 2012 - December 1, 2012

Improved user shopping experiences for domain registration and web hosting; profiled and troubleshooted issues, fixed bugs, and monitored news feeds dashboard for errors. Contributed to performance and reliability improvements in the domain hosting and content platforms.

Senior Developer at Embitel (Volkswagen Group)

July 1, 2012 - July 1, 2012

Transformed client needs into new product features for Mona.de, Klingel.de, and wenz.de. Performed performance tuning of legacy data stores and search queries, implemented Redis caching, and conducted unit & load testing for the internal e-commerce cart system. Revamped UI/UX of the checkout experience to enhance usability and conversions.

Software Engineer at PlusKB

March 1, 2011 - March 1, 2011

Supported small businesses by delivering end-to-end web solutions. Focused on requirement gathering, development, and delivery. Captured and validated 92% of business requirements before active development and established common coding standards to improve team integration, readability, and reusability.