Balamurugan Ramassamy

Director of Engineering

Austin, Texas, United States20 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 20 years of expertise in High Performance Computing.
Consistently rated as an outstanding performer in every organization.
Exceptional leadership in inspiring teams towards higher achievements.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a High Performance Computing and Cloud Computing expert with strong leadership and technical skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

HpcCloud ComputingProject ManagementSolution ArchitectureTechnical SalesPerformance EngineeringTechnical LiaisonData Center SolutionsBioinformatics

Other Skills

Service Level AgreementsKey Performance IndicatorsSite Reliability EngineeringTalent AcquisitionMarket AnalysisCompetitor AnalysisPre-salesPBSWorksOpenStackData PipelineJupyter NotebookData VisualizationVDIAutomationBenchmarking

About

Technocrat with over 20 years of pathbreaking expertise in High Performance Computing systems and solutions. Technologically hands-on, adept, passionate, and articulate, consistently achieving results considered unattainable by others. A track record of being rated as the outstanding performer in every organization worked for. Demonstrates exceptional leadership in inspiring dynamic teams towards higher achievements. Skilled in market and competitor analysis, with a focus on aligning product development with customer needs and industry trends. Proven ability to lead and engage customers effectively in the ever-evolving landscape of High Performance Computing.

Experience

20 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

11 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Altair

3 roles

Director - HPC

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos

Director, HPC & Cloud

Promoted

Jul 2021 – Feb 2025 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Global Competence Centre: Established and directed a Global Competence Centre, overseeing the worldwide deployment and management of Altair Unlimited appliances (Cloud & On-premises) in the simulation, data analytics, and AI sectors.
Oversaw the design and implementation of Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and ensured compliance.
Led the strategic planning and execution of the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practice, emphasizing platform development for provisioning, observability, billing, and compliance.
Played a vital role in talent acquisition, mentoring, and fostering a culture of innovation for talent retention.
HPC Solutions Management: Managed a team of skilled solution architects and engineers across APAC & GCC, responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting Altair HPCWorks-based HPC solutions for both on-premises and cloud environments.
Expertly navigate complex presales processes for significant deals, fostering detailed engagements with key stakeholders at customer organizations and partners. Executed strategic alignment to ensure the success of technical solutions throughout the sales cycle.
Guided the development of standards, best practices, and automation frameworks across diverse regions, optimizing engineering efficiencies, enhancing customer experience, and achieving the highest recorded customer retention rate to date.
Collaborated with organizational leadership and development leads to strategically steer product development, incorporating comprehensive market analysis, competitor analysis, and benchmarks. Ensured continuous alignment with customer needs and industry trends, fostering a dynamic and informed approach to product strategy.
Played a vital role in talent acquisition, mentoring, and fostering a culture of innovation for talent retention.

HPCCloud ComputingService Level AgreementsKey Performance IndicatorsSite Reliability EngineeringTalent Acquisition+2

Senior Technical Specialist - Technology Delivery

Feb 2015 – Jul 2021 · 6 yrs 5 mos

Responsible for customer success, technical sales and delivery of PBSWorks based solutions across India & GCC. Work closely with sales in technically nurturing qualified accounts into million dollar accounts
Solution architecture, development and delivery on
openstack with Altair Access as a VDI platform
transform Altair Access Web to integrate with Jupyter notebook for ML / AI development
develop data pipeline and visualizing Data centre efficiency and utilization using Altair Envision

PBSWorksOpenStackData PipelineJupyter NotebookData VisualizationSolution Architecture+1

Hewlett-packard india software operation pvt. ltd.

Senior Specialist - Performance Engineering

Sep 2010 – Feb 2015 · 4 yrs 5 mos · India

Performance Engineering
Worked with various organizations helping them optimize their software applications for extreme scalability and performance in Life and material sciences, Weather Modeling, computational chemistry and physics.
Porting Global Forecast system to x86 platform
Was a key member in competitive benchmarks for the worldwide HPC deals
Strong proponent of automation for platform evals and benchmark data generation
Subject Matter Expert (Life and material Sciences)
Technical Liaison – Accelrys: Performance Analysis of Pipeline Pilot components and optimization of pipelines (workflows) on HP Proliant Servers for high throughput assemblies of NGS data and further upstream analysis.
Performance evaluation of Next generation sequencing applications on traditional CPUs and accelerators
Written several whitepapers on the above subject
1. Accelrys Pipeline Pilot and HP ProLiant servers
2. de novo Genome Assembly with Accelrys Pipeline Pilot on the HP Proliant DL980

Performance EngineeringAutomationBenchmarkingTechnical Liaison

Computational research laboratories

Team Lead - Data center solutions

Feb 2008 – Sep 2010 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Project lead - Data Center automation solutions
Own and deliver an integrated platform for data center management and automation
Project lead - HPC On-Demand
Design and deliver a platform to seemlessly access the supercomputing facility over the web. The theme of the product includes ease-of-use, application monitoring, metering and support for submission of scientific workflows.
Project lead - Solution / Service Design
Responsible for Complete application service design for HPC on-demand customers. Was responsbile for delivering Automated weather forecast framework, CFD & Bioinformatics service design and technical support for customers. Technical Account Manager for one of the largest customer and rated the best in customer satisfaction.

Data Center AutomationHPC On-DemandService DesignTechnical Account ManagementData Center SolutionsHPC

Hcl infosystems ltd

2 roles

Team Leader, R&D - HPC.

Promoted

Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr

Technical Alliance Lead – BULL SAS, France
Application Benchmarks Lead – expertise in bioinformatics, computational chemistry, CFD and weather applications. Specialization in NUMA architecture and large SMP
Design & evaluate HPC cluster solutions for various clients and standard offerings for HCL Infosystems Ltd.,
Solution Design: Designed and delivered the HCL HPC Suite – A software product that completely automates HPC Cluster deployment.
Project Management: Effective SDLC process implementation – instrumental in achieving ISO 9001 certification.

HPC Cluster SolutionsProject ManagementSDLCHPC

system software engineer

Aug 2005 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr 5 mos

Designed and Developed, BioPack – Sequence to Drug – Bioinformatics Package
System Integration, HPC micro Benchmarks and application benchmarks. Over 30 applications from various scientific discipline were ported and optimized for performance on HCL's cluster platforms

BioinformaticsSystem IntegrationApplication BenchmarksHPC