She is passionate about developing software and middleware for computer networks and distributed systems. She has been part of the perfSONAR project, a popular network monitoring and troubleshooting open source software. She has contributed to various stages of the software’s life cycle- development, build and packaging as well as providing support to end-users. She has also worked on cloud middleware and host management agents. Balasubramanian, originally from Chennai, a city in South India, graduated with an M.S. in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University. She completed her undergraduate education at SSN College of Engineering of Anna University in India in Electronics and Communication.