Overview
- Balaji Gururajan said he and his family relocated to Bengaluru in mid‑July after roughly 18 years in the United States to be closer to ageing parents and to raise his children near extended family.
- He has spent nearly two decades at major tech firms including Microsoft and LinkedIn and joined Meta in 2022 as an engineering leader on Ads Core, with no definitive reporting that his Meta employment has changed.
- During the move he built and unveiled Bhavitta, an app he says was created using Anthropic’s Claude to help people manage finances, taxes and retirement plans that span two countries and currencies.
- Gururajan described settling back in Bengaluru as humbling and work‑intensive, citing tasks such as finding housing and enrolling his children in school as part of the adjustment.
- His LinkedIn post and airport photo of packed suitcases drew widespread responses online and the story fits a larger pattern of senior Indian technologists choosing to return home for family reasons.