Abhishek Balasubramaniam
Burlingame,CA
Summary
Results-driven Senior Software Engineer with strong competencies in scalability and leadership. Successfully delivered impactful features and core commerce capabilities, enhancing customer satisfaction and driving operational efficiency.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Samsara
San Francisco, California
05.2022 - Current
- Architected and launched a greenfield frontend monorepo with shared configurations, reusable UI components, Storybook, E2E testing per application, and code generators; enforced ≥90% unit test coverage across teams.
- Led the end-to-end rebuild of a legacy e-commerce platform (frontend, backend APIs, and data models), driving quarterly revenue growth from $1M to $40M with a zero-defect production rollout.
- Designed scalable, future-proof database schemas and backend systems supporting evolving product requirements, experimentation, and long-term growth.
- Delivered multiple core commerce capabilities including tiered license pricing, parent/child enterprise accounts, subcontractor purchasing flows with custom discounts and terms, shared carts for sales reps, order history, and one-click reordering.
- Built a scalable experimentation framework and partnered with Product to run numerous experiments informing pricing and purchasing decisions.
- Worked cross-functionally with 8+ teams (Product, Sales, Finance, Support, Platform) to ship consolidated invoicing and upgrade recommendation and exchange workflows, improving customer satisfaction while reducing sales friction and operational costs.
- Built internal admin tooling enabling non-technical stakeholders to visualize data and perform full CRUD operations, significantly reducing engineering dependency.
- Rebuilt a Chrome extension supporting customer gifting workflows, increasing attributed pipeline from <$300K to $2M per quarter and driving $19.5M in non-attributed revenue.
Software Engineer
Acumen LLC
Burlingame, CA
08.2018 - 04.2022
- Built and refactored Vue and Angular applications (templating, admin, data manipulation, and visualization) for internal platforms and government clients, reducing researcher reporting time by 35%.
- Drove component-based architecture and 508 accessibility compliance (AA/AAA) across applications; collaborated in Agile teams to deliver a COVID-19 tracking product, generating over $20 million.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Banking And Finance
University of London
01-2014
Skills
- Javascript, Python
- Vuejs, Flask
- React, & Angular (but it's been ages)
- Storybook, Jest, Turborepo, Pytest, Tailwind, Bootstrap, GraphQL, Zod
- Postgres, SQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB
- Npm, yarn, pnpm, pip, git
- Salesforce, Zapier, SendGrid, Stripe, DocuSign, Contentful, Jira, Confluence, LaunchDarkly, Sentry
- AWS (various services)
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Samsara
05.2022 - Current
Software Engineer
Acumen LLC
08.2018 - 04.2022
Bachelor of Science - Banking And Finance
University of London