Vasanth Balakrishnan

Led cross-functional team for successful completion of multiple large-scale projects, ensuring timely delivery for Tier 1 and Tier 2 merchants Risk applications.

• Support critical Merchants Payment engine application with a comprehensive risk evaluation process that is responsible for multiple billion dollar payments across the globe.
• Partner with multiple systems and drive multiple initiatives that bring a modern outlook to the merchants payment process.
• Drive huge cost savings to the organization by modernizing applications that handle merchants debit balance with multi-million dollars in recovery owed by merchants.
• Member of the technical board that drives newer technology research and adoption across the organization.

• Developed high quality middleware architecture and API framework to serve disparate teams with minimal integration delay and increased productivity.
• Led team in migration of legacy infrastructure to OpenShift Container platform and Agile workflow to Azure DevOps.
• Designed and deployed REST based storage solutions for DTMB interfaces resulting in cost save of more than 2M.
• Designed numerous reusable patterns that would serve team better and would help reduce overall delivery time.
• Conducted industry wide trainings on Docker, OpenShift Platform to quickly inculcate adoption process across multiple teams.

• Worked as a core team member in the architectural re-design process for the Merchant Payments & Disputes portal leveraging Nodejs and Java.
• Led middleware team to produce numerous scalable RESTful APIs those enabled rapid integration, increased productivity and costs saves.
• Worked with product owners from multiple markets across globe and monitoring analytics to serve merchants and customers better.
• Cross training team members on Agile workflows and RESTful patterns.

• Created middleware work patterns using IBM technologies like WMB, DataPower & MQ to integrate with JMS services and IBM DB2.
• Worked on creation of security policies involving SSL, TLS and HMAC solution for integration with B2B APIs.
• Led team in migration of 150+ Linux servers as part of large data center migration & migration of IBM Message Broker v6 to v7.