Focused on grid readiness, EV charging infrastructure, and power constraints affecting large-load growth.

Spandana Balani is an electrical engineer whose career spans power systems research, grid consulting, and more than a decade in safety-critical embedded systems — work that converges in the problem of infrastructure readiness under hard constraints.

Her technical foundation is power systems with an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Orleans; and a thesis on Smart Grid Technologies for Efficiency Improvement of Integrated Industrial Electric System (2011), applied smart grid technologies to the efficiency of integrated industrial electric systems.

Early grid-consulting work at Auriga covering power system planning and analysis for utility clients in the U.S. and abroad. A career in safety-critical systems followed — automotive embedded software and systems integration at Nexteer Automotive and General Motors, across electric power steering, ISO 26262-governed development, AUTOSAR platforms, electrification, and software-defined vehicle programs.

Across both domains, the work centers on closing the gap between a specified design and an operating system — reconciling architecture, software, hardware maturity, validation timing, and deployment risk.

Through EnersynQ, the same systems-integration discipline is applied to power-constrained growth.