About BalanceKing | Rotor Balancing Software Experts

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Engineered from Decades of Experience

In 1986, balancing a turbine generator meant polar paper, rulers, and a homemade protractor torn from a folded sheet. As one of our founders recalls, “Back in 1986, when I started balancing turbine generators and compressors, I learned how to balance using polar paper, rulers, and a protractor…”

Balancing software was rare, and tackling a 13‑bearing steam turbine generator required equal parts skill, patience, and courage. By the 1990s, early DOS-based Least Squares programs offered a glimpse of what was possible—useful, yes, but far from ideal. “It was a pretty competent tool, but, of course, it had plenty of drawbacks as well.”

Those early challenges shaped our vision.

We set out to build the balancing tool we always wished we had—powerful, intuitive, and capable of handling everything from straightforward single‑plane jobs to the most complex multi‑bearing rotor systems.

Today, that mission drives every feature we design and every improvement we release.

Our Mission

Today, that mission drives every feature we design and every improvement we release.

Our Vision

To redefine what’s possible in rotor balancing by delivering a platform that is powerful, intuitive, and capable of handling everything from simple single‑plane jobs to the most complex multi‑bearing systems. We envision a world where every engineer—regardless of experience level—has access to tools that make balancing faster, clearer, and more reliable than ever before.

Our Team

We’re engineers and problem-solvers who believe that balancing should be smarter, faster, and far less painful than it used to be. Our decades of field experience—paired with modern software design—allow us to build tools that respect the craft while pushing it forward.

John Kingham, P.E. - CBO,

Chief Balancing Officer

Experience: 40+ Years

John Kingham brings more than four decades of hands‑on experience in vibration analysis, condition monitoring, and machinery diagnostics—expertise that forms a cornerstone of BalanceKing’s technical depth.

John’s career began in 1986 within Bently Nevada’s renowned Machinery Diagnostic Services (MDS) group, where he spent 15 years diagnosing complex vibration issues on steam turbines, gas turbines, compressors, and motors. During this time, he also taught the company’s flagship Machinery Diagnostics course, balanced high‑speed critical machinery, and contributed numerous case histories to Orbit magazine. His ability to translate field experience into practical instruction quickly became one of his defining strengths.

John later served as an application engineer, developing a deep command of Bently Nevada’s product line and ensuring customers could deploy systems with confidence. He hosted customer forums and webinars, drove the development of the ADRE quick‑configuration software package, and authored more than 20 Orbit articles on ADRE—earning him the nickname “Mr. ADRE.”

John now dedicates his time to developing the BalanceKing software platform and guiding the engineering team behind it. Drawing on decades of diagnostic experience and product expertise, he ensures that BalanceKing’s tools are intuitive, accurate, and grounded in real‑world machinery behavior. His deep understanding of vibration analysis, system configuration, and user workflows continues to shape the platform’s evolution, making him an essential force in delivering software that engineers can trust.

Bob Grimm

Chief Architect, BalanceKing

Experience: 30+ Years

Bob’s engineering journey began long before cloud platforms, container orchestration, or microservices became the industry’s default vocabulary. In the early era of web‑based EMR systems, he gravitated toward one of the hardest problems in healthcare technology: moving clinical data reliably, securely, and at scale.

What started as curiosity quickly became a career‑defining specialty. Over the next two decades, Bob helped architect and evolve some of the most widely deployed data‑exchange platforms in the healthcare ecosystem. He built multi‑threaded processing engines, designed interoperability pipelines, and led teams through major shifts in technology—all while supporting hundreds of EMR and EHR vendors across hospitals, physician networks, and national healthcare organizations.

Accuracy, performance, and trust have always been his north stars.

Today, Bob brings that same engineering rigor to BalanceKing. His expertise spans .NET and C#, AWS migrations, SQL Server optimization, and message‑driven microservices—skills that directly shape the reliability and precision our users depend on. Whether he’s designing a new service, tuning a database, or collaborating across disciplines, Bob approaches every challenge with the principle that has guided his entire career:

Build systems people can trust.

Matty Barker

Enterprise Content & Technical Consultant

Matty Barker is a senior Enterprise Content Management and Veeva Vault specialist with three decades of end‑to‑end IT experience. He began his career in Oracle development and technical support, building the kind of foundational systems knowledge that later made him invaluable inside the pharmaceutical industry, where he has spent most of his career deploying, stabilizing, and enhancing regulated content management platforms.

Over the past several years, Matty has become a key contributor to large‑scale Veeva Vault migration programs, helping organizations modernize legacy Quality and Regulatory documentation systems with clean, compliant, and supportable architectures. His hands‑on depth across Veeva Vault, REST APIs, SharePoint, and enterprise content platforms makes him the person teams rely on when they need someone who understands the full stack, sees failure modes before they happen, and knows how to deliver systems that work the way the business actually needs.

Sarah Cooper

Programming Intern

Sarah Builds systems that don’t just work — they stay working. Her engineering career started taking shape before she even graduated from Northeastern University, where she studied Computer Science and Economics. While still a student, she was already delivering full‑stack applications for the Baltimore Orioles’ front office, giving scouts and coaches the data infrastructure they needed to make faster, more confident player‑evaluation decisions.

She then moved into national security, supporting machine‑learning tools across defense workflows and becoming the engineer teams relied on when something was slow, brittle, or overly manual. Sarah cut report‑generation time by 80%, collapsed release cycles from a full day to ten minutes, and brought visualization time from minutes down to instant. Her pattern is consistent: find the bottleneck, eliminate it permanently, and leave the system stronger than she found it.

This spring, Sarah will join McKinsey in New York. She’s fluent across the modern engineering stack — Python, React, Docker, PyTorch, AWS — and at her best when the problem in front of her doesn’t have a clean answer yet. At BalanceKing, she brought that same instinct for clarity, speed, and durable engineering to every part of the platform. We wish her every success at McKinsey and beyond.

Omar Khan