Balu Chinnappan

Engineering Manager

SuccessFactors•  April 2018 - Present•  California

Led a team of frontend and backend engineers to develop a multi-tenant public career site designed for 800 million candidates, while addressing significant concerns at multiple levels. ● Navigated the growing polarization of online labor market searches, ensuring the platform remained effective and inclusive. ● Spearheaded the development of 4 entirely new products from inception to becoming flagship offerings for the company, transforming the business strategy of the company from a talent product to a complete HCM suite. ● Prioritize even in difficult and ambiguous situations for example when we rewrite the customer cockpit from a EOL techstack to a latest React and Rest services, we had to overcome the challenge of delivering the new cockpit with no disruption to the customers.

Architect / Development Expert

SuccessFactors•  October 2008 - April 2018•  Californi

Strategic decision-maker established technical standards to align with evolving industry standards and scaled operations to meet market demand. This drove a 40% increase in operating efficiency. ● Founding members of our lightweight JS framework JUIC which is used across the product reducing the development time by half. ● Led the architectural design, technology selection, and coding standards for a major module, ensuring robustness and scalability. ● The established methodology now serves as the foundation for the SuccessFactors user interface.