Balamurugan Periyasamy

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led data engineering team driving $12m in new trading revenue.
Developed forecasting models saving $2m annually.
Initiated client analytics programs leading to product launches.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Scientist specializing in Fintech analytics and data engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringTeam ManagementAnalyticsRisk ManagementData Science

Other Skills

Business AnalysisBusiness AnalyticsClient AnalyticsData AnalysisData GovernanceData PipelineFinancial ModelingInvestment BankingMachine LearningManagementPostgreSQLProcess ImprovementPythonRequirements AnalysisRisk Modeling

About

A data scientist who thrives in building data products, and generating business insights, having served in multiple roles in the data domain. Worked on analysis of raising capital, the feasibility of new product launches, and data partnerships. Time Series Forecasting Data pipeline and visualization Building Risk Model Stakeholders updates Fund Product Management Client Survey and Insights Data Governance Control Function Tools Python,SQL(Postgres and ASE) and Tableau Libraries: Pandas, Matplotlib, Plotly, Scikit Learn, LGBM, FastAI, and HuggingFace Available at in.balamurugan+linkedinbio@gmail.com

Experience

Alphagrep

Tech Lead/Manager - Software Engineer - Data (AVP)

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, India

Leading a team of data engineers to design and optimize real-time and batch pipelines streaming global financial market data into trading systems, about hundreds of gigabytes of daily data from multiple sources into structured tables, powering analytics and ML models that drove new trading revenue of ~ $12m.
Developed SDKs and internal data tools to standardize access, enforce governance, and accelerate
adoption of analytics pipelines across trading teams.
Created an anomaly detection framework in Python/PostgreSQL with sanity scoring and alerting,
Reducing quality issues and SLAs, extended with GenAI to summarize alerts and reduce false positives.
Built a firm-wide metadata catalog service to enhance the discoverability and standardization of core
datasets
Championed strategic infrastructure initiatives, including a distributed ClickHouse cluster and reusable
Ingestion frameworks.
Mentored junior engineers in architectural design, best practices, and conducting code reviews. Drove team alignment and delivery by leading with agile practices and OKR frameworks.

PythonPostgreSQLData GovernanceData PipelineMachine LearningData Engineering+1

Goldman sachs

2 roles

Manager - Analytics in Structured Derivatives (VP)

Promoted

Jan 2018 – Feb 2023 · 5 yrs 1 mo

Involved in hiring, coaching, and managing the team
Engineered data pipelines and visualization layers by setting up data warehouses, automating ETL
workflows, and delivering timely, accurate business reports and recommendations.
Developed time series forecasting models used in firmwide budgeting, saving annually ~$2m in interest costs.
Built predictive risk models to identify limit breaches using Random Forest, aiding proactive decision-making.
Initiated client analytics programs; insights led to new product launches and compliance improvements.
Developed a governance framework for ESG product data and delivered monthly analyses to the
Executive Office, contributing to a 10 percent reclassification of funding as ESG-compliant and improving the firm’s funding rate.

Data PipelineTime Series ForecastingRisk ModelingClient AnalyticsData GovernanceAnalytics+1

Associate

Jun 2012 – Dec 2017 · 5 yrs 6 mos

* Leading and founding member of the Data Science and Analytics for Derivatives team

Data Science

Irevna

Derivatives Research Analyst

Jun 2010 – Jun 2012 · 2 yrs

Worked on analyzing, reviewing and verifying the booking of Interest Rate Product economics. Awarded S&P role model award

Aditya birla group(apparel and textiles) - peter england people

Management Trainee

Jun 2009 – Jul 2009 · 1 mo

Conducted Sales Improvement Diagnostic for Peter England People Stores and responsible for activity tracking of a new People store launch in Bangalore