Shabeesh Balan

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India22 yrs 2 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led AI team for innovative product solutions.
Architected flagship platforms for enterprise applications.
Reduced turnaround time for product changes significantly.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS architect with extensive experience in AI-driven product development and engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Solution ArchitectureAiRisk ManagementEngineering ManagementData AnalyticsProject DeliveryProduct DevelopmentSystem ArchitectureProof Of ConceptArchitectureCloud SolutionsTransformation Management

Other Skills

Natural Language ProcessingEnd to End EngineeringAP AutomationAuthorization SystemsBusiness WorkflowsApplication ModernizationTransformation ProjectAPI StrategyCloud NativeSoftware Project ManagementSDLCRequirements AnalysisPre-salesWeb ServicesAgile Methodologies

Experience

Zycus

3 roles

Vice President of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos

Lead Merlin Intake our Flagship product.
Responsible to architect and launch Merlin Agentic Platform - Our home grown solution to build agentic systems through Natural Language. https://www.zycus.com/solution/merlin-agentic-ai-platform
Responsbible for AI team handling Merlin Products in Zycus - Einvoice automation, Contract Document Insights, Risk Management, Merlin Risk Radar. https://www.zycus.com/solution/e-invoicing

Solution ArchitectureAINatural Language Processing

Associate Vice President Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

End to End engineering ownership of solutions for einvoicing, Risk Management, AP Automation, Spend Analytics, Data Analytics. https://www.zycus.com/solution/e-invoicing
End to End responsbility to build Lythouse the ESG solution from Zycus. https://www.lythouse.com
End to End responsbility from technical conceptualisation to Delivery of Zycus's Flagship Merlin Intake offering. https://www.zycus.com/solution/intake-management.
Conceptualisation, Engineering and Deployment responsbility for Conversational Analytics platform within Zycus.

End to End EngineeringData AnalyticsAP AutomationEngineering Management

Director Of Engineering

Mar 2021 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

Responsible for buidling and delivering eInvocing product within Zycus Suite.
Conceptualised, Developed and demonstrated Proof of Concept of a platform that can be used to extend the core product without involving Engineering folks. Reduced TAT for Customer specific changes from quatery release cycles to a month. Increased volume of the changes to many folds.. Refer: https://appxtend.zycus.com/.
Handled the Authorisation and Authentication system of Zycus, reducing incident rate from 4 per day to 1 per quarter. Modernised the legacy architecture to latest technology.

Product DevelopmentProof of ConceptAuthorization SystemsSystem Architecture

Prime focus technologies

2 roles

Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Manage Portfolio covering Jboss, .netCore, Elasticsearch, JBPM, Azure, AWS , Mongo DB , 3rd party s/w integrations, like, Diva, Masstech, Mediaconvert, Vantage, Elemental and NFR Assurance
Architecture and Delivery responsibility to support a framework to orchestrate business workflows connecting ~ 120 odd edge nodes.
Application modernization impacting availability, resilience & performance of the reducing unplanned downtime from 4~6 hours per week to 0.5 hr/qtr
Delivered the technical solution for DR using Azure IaaS and PaaS at an RTO < 1 hour with an RPO of ~ 1 min.
Architected and built API Platform as a self-serviceable ecosystem for our customers.
Architected and delivered a BI solution as a self-service mode for all our tenants through productized Data Flows and reporting solution.

ArchitectureBusiness WorkflowsApplication ModernizationEngineering Management

Technical Architect

Mar 2017 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Bengaluru Area

Manning publications co.

Technical Development Editor

Sep 2014 – May 2015 · 8 mos

Worked as the Technical Development Editor for an upcoming book Probabilistic Programming with Manning Publication. The engagement involved reviewing the manuscript as it was written, providing feedback, validating programs suggesting improvements. The feedback was mostly sent to the assigned Development Editor.

Wipro

Solution Architect

Nov 2012 – Feb 2017 · 4 yrs 3 mos · On-site

Led a transformation project for implementing an Editorial platform by rationalizing a system with 2000+ individual microsites and workflows into a unified platform.
Defined the API Strategy for the Content and Data division of a large publishing company
Led transition of a mission critical system to being cloud native from pure infra hosting on AWS.
Defined business case, implementation road map to move customer’s existing product from Oracle COTS to open source based micro services architecture.
Part of the core team who developed the product for our customer which won Best Project award for “Quality Excellence In Product Development” at National Quality Excellence Awards 2015

Transformation ProjectAPI StrategyCloud NativeTransformation ManagementCloud Solutions