Ajay Balasankula
Sr Technical Program Manager
Frisco,TX
Summary
Experienced Management Professional with over 15+ years of experience in people management, software development, client management and execution of software projects.
Specialized in project management and experienced in complete project cycle from analysis, architecture and design, through development and deployment.
Expert Technical Manager accomplished in coordinating department activities and supporting fast-paced production work. Consistently maintains schedule targets and completes error-free work. Easy to get along with and always ready with ideas to improve production with better strategies or equipment recommendations.
Brings in technical background as technology Architect, servers as liaison between business and architecture teams
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr Technical Program Manager
Persistent Systems
12.2023 - Current
- Collaborated closely with product owners to define clear project scopes and deliverables that met customer needs while adhering to established budgets and timelines.
- Assessed expected technical challenges and developed proactive solutions with the inputs from Architects internally as well from Google Professional services.
- Lead planning, execution and delivery of data engineering pipelines jobs, upgrades &. migration on Google cloud platform.
- Owned communication for technical and go-to-market delivery across these projects with senior leadership and partner organizations
- Worked across business, product, and Solution Architect teams to balance business and technical variables to deliver mechanisms
- · Managed multiple concurrent pursuit and delivery oversight, ensure contractual commitments, scoping of engagement specifics, and delivery oversight of client outcomes.
- Worked with the Google Plugin development engineers in the Workday Sheets development program
Prinicipal Program Director
Wipro Technologies
09.2018 - 11.2023
- Led the iterative development of strategic cross-functional enterprise initiatives from the beginning to the end by delivering prioritized program roadmaps, schedules, resource plans, and proactively identifying/addressing potential setbacks
- Negotiated program contracts and agreements to obtain cost-effective pricing
- Worked closely with the sales team to support the sales process, providing technical expertise and guidance.
- Conducted product demonstrations and proof-of-concept (POC) engagements to showcase AWS capabilities.
- Utilized data-driven decision-making techniques to ensure alignment with organizational goals.
- Developed and supported the go-to-market strategies with account teams, coordinate account activities, and identify business opportunities at existing and new clients.
- Served as the primary liaison with clients and account teams, addressing service needs, requests, and issues.
- Actively managed $25M+ in sales pipeline of Strategy Consulting services; Winning $6.5M+ and delivering $5M+ annually.
- Managed multiple concurrent pursuit and delivery oversight, ensure contractual commitments, scoping of engagement specifics, and delivery oversight of client outcomes.
- Work closely with senior leaders in all service units and engagement teams.
- Worked as Technical Architect in few cloud native modernization efforts.
- Modernized publishing engine of software.cisco.com to AWS native leveraging AWS DataSync, ClamAV, Multi region CloudFront technology stack.
- Employed cloud native design patterns and govern various modernizations of legacy monolith to microservices leveraging AWS Native services.
Sr Technical Engineering Lead
Synchrony Financial Inc
04.2017 - 09.2018
- Participated in formal internal design reviews of proposed products and components.
- Lead an agile scrum team to design, implement, and test the enterprise API services software that powers the client applications.
- Design and implement the next generation credit innovation strategy.
- Implement a microservices based solution for the credit decisioning making process for multiple retail clients of synchrony.
- Created and have driven the detailed planning and scheduled activities many software projects at a time.
- Cloud Native API development and deploy to Pivotal cloud foundry platform and enable autoscaling of the services.
- Demonstrated CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins for the API services.
- Build cloud native APIs backed with in-memory data grid tool - Pivotal Gemfire, HBase with data streamed from Hadoop (Bigdata) eco system.
- Ensure the code quality metrics are met.
- Demonstrated knowledge of administering and building REST API's Pivotal Gemfire cache tool.
- Experience in working in real-time data ingestion.
- Experienced in sourcing and processing structured, semi-structured and unstructured data.
- Experience in working with No-Sql data stores such as HBase, Cassandra.
- Experience in Data Cleansing/Transformation, Performance tuning.
- Experience in leveraging Apache Atlas for data governance.
- Built POC’s using Kafka, Storm for building data pipelines and streaming.
Sr Architect
State Farm
12.2012 - 12.2016
- Inspected contractor and sub-contractor work to verify construction met quality standards and complied with building codes.
- My primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to, technical direction on building UI applications and SOA based enterprise software components using WebSphere/Mule SOA Suite, overseeing agile software development process (PO and SM), working with various line of business (LOB), program managers and product owners on requirement/design/integration of software components, addressing customer issues/escalations.
- Hands-on development of several UI/service components as part of the work packages built for the customers in continuous integration/delivery methodologies using Behavioral driven development (serenity, jBehave, cucumber, selenium API) as part of Jenkins Pipeline configuration and delivered features to production/pre-prod on a bi- weekly sprint cycle.
- Developed Mule asynchronous services flows using XSLT transformation invoking multiple services using RabbitMQ for queuing and MUNIT testing to test the flows.
- Developed UI screens as per the wireframes from the UI Experience team using Spring MVC with jQuery, bootstrap, angular js java scripting frameworks.
- Developed backend services using Apache CXF, Axis2, JAX-WS based SOAP services and exposed them using MULE ESB.
- Implement JSON SOAP & REST interfaces as endpoints in Mule esb.
- Considerable knowledge in mule service orchestration and flow design. Integrated Mule flows with multiple adapters/components available in mule studio.
- Migrated high-volume OLTP transactions from Oracle to Cassandra to reduce Oracle licensing footprint.
- Created architecture stack blueprint for data access with noSQL; used as the technical basis for new Cassandra projects.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering Technology
Osmania University
India 05.2001 -
Skills
Project Management: Agile & Scrum Methodologies, Risk Management, JIRA, Microsoft Project
Timeline
Sr Technical Program Manager
Persistent Systems
12.2023 - Current
Prinicipal Program Director
Wipro Technologies
09.2018 - 11.2023
Sr Technical Engineering Lead
Synchrony Financial Inc
04.2017 - 09.2018
Sr Architect
State Farm
12.2012 - 12.2016
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering Technology
Osmania University
05.2001 -