Jayabalan Bala
About Jayabalan Bala
Jayabalan Bala is a Site Reliability Engineer with extensive experience in both development and operational roles. He currently works at Credit Karma and has previously held positions at FireEye, Wayfair, and Tata Consultancy Services.
Current Role at Credit Karma
Jayabalan Bala serves as a Site Reliability Engineer at Credit Karma, a position he has held since 2022. In this role, he is part of the Compute/cloud team, focusing on maintaining and improving system reliability. His work involves utilizing various technologies and tools to ensure optimal performance and availability of services.
Previous Experience at Wayfair
Prior to his current role, Jayabalan worked at Wayfair as a Site Reliability Engineer from 2019 to 2022. He initially joined as a Site Reliability Engineer and later advanced to Site Reliability Engineer II. His tenure at Wayfair spanned three years, during which he contributed to enhancing system reliability and performance in the Greater Boston Area.
Internship at FireEye, Inc.
In 2018, Jayabalan completed a three-month internship as a DevOps Engineer at FireEye, Inc. in Reston, Virginia. This experience provided him with foundational skills in DevOps practices, contributing to his expertise in site reliability engineering.
Education and Expertise
Jayabalan Bala holds a Master of Science (MS) in Network and System Administration from the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he studied from 2016 to 2018. He also earned a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electronics and Communications Engineering from RMK Engineering College, Chennai, from 2010 to 2014. His educational background supports his specialization in technologies such as Kubernetes, Terraform, CircleCi, Python, Go, and GCP.
Early Career at Tata Consultancy Services
Before pursuing further education, Jayabalan worked as a System Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services from 2014 to 2016 in Chennai, India. This role provided him with experience in both development and operational capacities, laying the groundwork for his future positions in site reliability engineering.