Bala Kumar

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About me

• I was born and raised in Chennai, India.
• I live with my wife, daughter (kindergarten) and parents in Chennai.
• I enjoy traveling, learning about new cultures, cooking, tamil music and watch cricket.

Work patterns

• I live in the Indian Standard Time.
• I believe in and embrace non-linear workday routine:
• I wake up around 7:00 AM, drop my wife and daughter, attend other chores and start my workday around 12.30 PM.
• I prefer to attend team meetings that are scheduled in the EMEA region. And my workday typically has a good overlap with the EMEA timezone.
• I prefer to have sync ups and other meetings during my evenings (after 6:30 PM to 9.30 PM).

Communicating with me

• I prefer asynchronous communication, it helps me prepare better answers and plan my workday.
• Slack:
  • You can send me a message on Slack at any time and I will respond during my working hours.
  • To be transparent with my team members I prefer keeping the conversation in our group channel (#g_govern_threat_insights).
  • I may send you a message on Slack outside your working hours, however, I do not expect you to respond immediately.
• GitLab:
  • To make sure I will see your message, please mention me (@bala.kumar) as it will automatically create a To-Do item for me.