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Curriculum Vitae

Hans Bala

Software Engineer

Experience

Glean

Senior Software Engineer

June 2022 – PresentPalo Alto, CA

  • Presently working on scaling Glean Chat to 1 million+ daily active users—everything from LLMs and runtime infrastructure to MySQL scaling
  • Worked on scaling search across company data sources like Confluence, Dropbox, and Google Drive for large enterprises
  • Worked on the full admin suite end-to-end, enabling company admins to quickly connect data sources and set up Glean for their company

E-HOA

Co-founder

May 2021 – June 2021Miami, FL

  • Developed e-hoa.com, an all-in-one property management web application to digitize all aspects of the housing industry
  • Designed the backbone of the application, including optimizing the database for fast community lookups with caching. Also designed the community-wide chat infrastructure with read receipts, group chats, and push notifications

Growsquares

Founding Engineer

July 2021 – September 2021Brooklyn, NY

  • Developed growsquares.com, an e-commerce website focused on selling personalized gardening plants
  • Co-developed the REST API used by the app and website to retrieve “growscores” for each type of plant within the United States, making use of open-source datasets
  • Used React.js, Firebase, Redux, and Shopify to build out the website from the ground up

Brown Systems Group

Research Assistant

May 2020 – Sep 2020Providence, RI

  • Researched the applicability of eBPF to monitor low-level performance of microservice-based service meshes and auto-scale Kubernetes computing groups under the guidance of Professor Theophilus Benson

Prudential Asset Management

Research Analyst

June 2019 – Sep 2019Kolkata, India

  • Co-developed a machine learning model to assign the distribution of equity and debt assets in a particular fund based on market trends
  • The model was sanctioned for use by the Kolkata Head Office

Education

Brown University

Student, Computer Science

Sep 2018 – May 2022Providence, RI

Graduated with an Sc.B. degree in Computer Science, with a specialization in Systems, Machine Learning, and Web Development.

  • GPA: 3.8; concentration GPA: 3.92
  • Worked on wide-scale microservice architecture and failure detection
  • Worked as an independent researcher under Professor Eugene Charniak, exploring better techniques for natural language processing

La Martiniere for Boys

Student

Mar 2016 – May 2018Kolkata, India

Graduated with honours in ISC with 94.2% in Sciences and Computer Science.