Engineer
Balakrishnan V K
Software engineer building AI, crypto, fintech, and martech systems.
Music
B10N →
Footwork. Juke. DnB.
Recent writing
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Five years at BitMEX
Senior engineer to engineering manager at the crypto derivatives exchange. Rebuilt mobile from a delisting, unified fiat payments, and migrated the production frontend to TypeScript with AI agents.
TypeScript · React Native · GraphQL · Kubernetes · Payments · Claude Code
Struct: safe-by-structure content control plane
A self-hosted content workflow for existing websites where an AI assistant and a human editor act through exactly the same validated, reversible operations.
TypeScript · React · Durable Objects · SQLite · Astro
localFlow: a self-hosted DJ stack
Streaming, Rekordbox-aware crates, and mix recommendations for DJs who keep their library on a local drive. Where the engineering and the music overlap.
TypeScript · Navidrome · Python · Rekordbox · Docker
Aadi: automatic Konnakol transcription
A research project on transcribing Konnakol vocal percussion into timestamped rhythmic syllables with machine learning.
Python · ASR · Audio ML