BALAJI RAMASWAMY

Leading a globally diverse team (500+ with a budget of ~180M) responsible for 6 pillars that lead the digital transformation and modernization of enterprise infrastructure, platforms, and services.

• Cloud Engineering Infrastructure: AWS, Azure, GCP, Data Centers, Edge Compute, Network Infra (ZeroTrust), Segmentation, Storage, Onprem/ Cloud Databases
• Data, AI & Automation: Data pipeline, Data security/ governance and privacy, Process mining/ Automation, Generative AI, Observability Platform, BOT Platform and Automation, Asset discovery and Services registry
• Experiences & Collaboration: Employee Digital experience, Media production, Developer and Employee Productivity, Conf room Infrastructure, Content Strategy, Digital enablement including Mobile and Enterprise Search, Site Support and Global Service Desk
• Security and Resiliency: Enterprise Security & Compliance, Identity and Access Management, Device Posture, End Point protection, Incident Command, BPM, Resiliency, Disaster Recovery
• Production Support and Operations: Applications and Infrastructure production support, 24x7 Ops support for critical applications, Rationalization, Deployment Pipelines
• Mergers & Acquisition: Due Diligence, Onboarding, integration of business systems, Enterprise system integration, architecture

• Supervise a globally diverse team aiming at Digital transformation & modernization of Enterprise Infrastructure, Platforms, and Services
• Acclimate Cloud-first development model through Azure infra services/ PaaS as well as ensure data governance & compliance for confidential and highly confidential (PII) data
• Met and surpassed the ever-increasing demands of company complex Enterprise workloads by delivering resilient, scale, and secure infrastructure & platforms
• Established Enterprise Data Platform, data pipeline, CDM/ CDS, and insights for improving client/staff journey
• Acknowledged for developing outclass collaboration tools/ application support (Chat, Voice/ Video, Documents)

• Developed and directed a team that focused on powering Infrastructure and Enterprise Applications to scale a reality in Azure and Data Centers across the globe
• Delivered innovative blockchain solutions to the marketplace
• Planned and executed successful strategies to augment Enterprise Productivity @ LinkedIn
• Coordinated product development that meet design requirements and lead in the market category
• Designed solutions that support the company strategy and product roadmap

• Provided quality leadership to a cross-functional team, including line managers, handling Devops/siteops, productivity automation tools, and Development Director for new generation customer-facing hosted Apps
• Developed Tintri Private Cloud, supporting AWS, such as HA environment for Test/ Dev, Customer Demo/ Beta & spin-up/ teardown of VMs based on demand
• Designed internal Applications (Quality Dashboard, Pre Sales Analysis, Support Dashboard)
• Performed multiple tasks, such as leading the SRE team, planning Capex/ Opex budget, and handling multiple nodes compute and storage clusters supporting approximately 25000 VMs across multiple hypervisor stacks
• Facilitated GFC, Nightly, and integrated tests through continuous Integrated test framework

• Directed a global, high-producing team of Engineers and first-line managers in facilitating Source code management, releasing automation, overseeing productivity tools automation, designing QA test automation framework, and many others
• Performed different leadership roles in product development lifecycles, such as marketing requirements review, implementation, testing, build & release, and customer escalations
• Oversaw highly available and scalable Software development infrastructure provisioning and hosted applications on cloud-based environments
• Ensured faster deployment on Linux, Cloning/ VM template for other OS by implementing Docker/ Mesos
• Augmented efficiency and throughput from acquisitions by actively participating in 100-day merger and acquisition plans and integrating systems/ processes

• Led a development team for enabling common standards and engineering processes and delivery of products, resulting in boosting customer expectations
• Generated optimal results by instituting productivity enhancements and implementing Quality engineering CI/ CD tools to shorten release cycles and increased 'time to market' for new products
• Executed multiple functions, such as automating patch provisioning, recommending and cloning tech stack level and deploying/configuring products, and streamlining disaster recovery process for the SCM systems
• Enabled forecast infrastructure growth, increased throughput, eliminated redundancies, and generated alerts based on 30 days’ standard deviation of submitted jobs on the cloud by creating business intelligence (OBIEE) based business logic
• Coordinated multi-platform compilation by employing Maven for build automation & migrating to cMake for some of the product lines