Balajee Sundaram

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India30 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 20 years of experience in technology leadership.
  • Led large-scale tech transformations in Fintech and SaaS.
  • Successfully launched products used by millions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned technology leader in Fintech and SaaS with extensive experience in product engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingMicroservicesProduct ManagementEngineeringEngineering Management

Other Skills

JavaJavaScriptNodeJSREST/SOAP applicationsDatabasesCICDDockerKubernetesAgileCloud Platform -AWSCloudC++C#.netOracleMySQL

About

* A passionate hands-on technology leader with over 2 decades of experience in building highly scalable distributed systems and saas products, conceptualised and launched new products used by millions of users coupled with 14+ years as people leader of large teams (200+ FTEs + 200+ CWs) * Led large initiatives in Tech transformations (Finance, Customer Success, MarTech, HRTec) and cloud migrations in modernising/rationalising platforms and frameworks, as well as build/manage systems for scale and performance (500k+ tps services) * Strong expertise in building SaaS/Mobile products, Infra services and distributed systems

Experience

30 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Career break

Personal goal pursuit

Dec 2022Present · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

Salesforce

Vice President

Jun 2022Nov 2022 · 5 mos

  • Global VP of engineering for FinTech cloud transformation

Linkedin

Director of Engineering: Talent products-platform

Feb 2020Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Responsible for multiple charters and built the team from scratch (thru the pandemic) in Bangalore for LinkedIn's successful enterprise products and Jobs Ingestion platform. This network platform powers about 40% of LinkedIn's revenue

Intuit

4 roles

Director Of Engineering

Jan 2017Jan 2020 · 3 yrs

  • Responsible for Product Management, Engineering and Operations of the Intuit’s Finance Technology Group - commerce/billing/payments/revenue recognition/finance reporting platform (processing 9+ Billion in revenue, 500k tps services).
  • Accountable for massively distributed microservices providing order management pipeline, catalog and payment capabilities for Intuit, which serves as the subscription/commerce platform for Intuit's products (Components to enable this functionality had online, nearline and offline components enabled thru cloud native tech)
  • Had the team across different product functions - Product Mgmt, Engineering Mgmt, Architecture and Operations
  • Had the charter to rationalise/modernise several monolith systems (50+ applications) to microservices/event driven architecture and moving them to AWS cloud (Docker, Kubernetes, ServiceMesh). This was done flawlessly with significant reduction in running costs in AWS
  • Transformation to DevOps: Moving away from 50+ engineers doing traditional operations/quality to a single development team responsible for building and managing the software stack.
  • Team Size: Grew the team from 15+ engineers to 150+ FTEs and 100+ Contractors (mainly working on non-IP related work allowing us to transform the commerce platform rapidly) to drive the charter of managing the billing/commerce platform
  • Technology: Java, JavaScript, NodeJS, Microservices, REST/SOAP applications, Databases (Aurora, RDS, Oracle BRM, Oracle EBusinessSuite, Commerce stack( Oracle ATG, ElasticPath), Databases( Oracle, MySql, NoSQL), CICD (Spinaker, Codepipeline, Jenkins, ArgoCD), Docker, Kubernetes, Agile, Cloud Platform -AWS), Opensource components
JavaJavaScriptNodeJSMicroservicesREST/SOAP applicationsDatabases+6

Director Of Platform Engineering

Promoted

Jan 2014Jan 2017 · 3 yrs

  • Accountability for all of Engineering & Operations, Product management for the Platform Org in Bangalore
  • Drove digital transformation of company's software assets (moving to highly scalable unified billing platform, moving from disparate Customer Success tools to Salesforce providing 360 view of customers, Marketing Tech platform standardisation bringing in ROI measurements on marketing spend, HR-Tech modernisation)
  • Tech transformation towards Unification of customer communication and customer identity across different product base (accounting, tax, payroll) /customers (online, desktop)
  • Team Size: Grew the team from 20+ engineers to 200+ full time (Eng Managers, Architects, Product Mgmt, DevOps) and 150+ Contractors
  • Technology: Java, JavaScript, NodeJS, Microservices, REST/SOAP applications, Databases (Aurora, RDS, Oracle, MySql, NoSQL), CICD (Spinaker, Codepipeline, ArgoCD), Docker, Kubernetes, Agile, Cloud (AWS)
JavaJavaScriptNodeJSMicroservicesREST/SOAP applicationsDatabases+7

Group Product Development Leader - Engineering and Product Management

Promoted

Apr 2009Jan 2014 · 4 yrs 9 mos

  • Bootstrapped TurboTax Product and Engineering in Bangalore (a leading tax software in the US)
  • Accountable Product engineering and product management of TurboTax desktop Product – 500million USD revenue, 6 million customers
  • Also led the team that was responsible for electronic filing service which caters to 70+ million US tax-efile requests for our flagship product (TurboTax Online – generating about 2-billion-dollar business)
  • Conceptualized the idea and led an entrepreneurial team to successfully launch SnapTax-Android (the first mobile only Tax Filing software in world) just in 6 months which generated $10M revenue in the first year with 1Million users as of 2014 (4.8 STAR on Google Store).
  • Successfully conceived and launched several mobile applications including TaxCaster, MyTaxRefund, Mint offline on Kindle, several small apps on multiple mobile platforms (Android, Windows Phone, HTML5)
  • Team Size: Inspired and grew highly productive engineering team from 0 to 90+ engineers.
  • Technology: C++, c#.net, Java, Oracle, MySQL, Ruby, Mobile applications (iOS, Android)
C++C#.netJavaOracleMySQLRuby+3

Sr Engineering Manager - India Product Experiments

Jan 2008May 2009 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Delivering mobile products for India thru rapid experimentation and innovation.
  • Built thoughtful products backed with huge customer interviews/customer product usage observation (aka
  • Follow Me Home)
  • Managed QuickBooks (leading accounting product in North America) – releases to the Canada/UK market
  • Technology: J2ME, C++, Java, Flex, Oracle, MySQL, Ruby, Mobile applications (J2ME)
J2MEC++JavaFlexOracleMySQL+4

Fidelity investments

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2006Jan 2008 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

  • Started this group fresh in India and grew this team to close to 70+ at its peak.
  • Led the re-architecture of Equity Trading System (which transacts billions of dollars every day across the Globe) from an AS400 system to Enterprise Java stack.
  • Also led the Algorithmic trading (Quant computing) team to scale the performance over a Grid compute architecture
  • o Technology:Java,C++,AS400,c#.net
JavaC++AS400C#.netEngineering Management

Hewlett-packard

2 roles

Sr Engineering Manager

Promoted

Mar 2003Jan 2006 · 2 yrs 10 mos · California, United States

  • Manage multiple development technology projects for Hewlett Packard enterprise businesses
  • Led a large organization of 130+ engineers across geographies (US, UK, India)
  • Executed top notch deliverables during the 3 years and had a high employee engagement with <5% attrition.
  • Recognized with several awards and recognition for delivery and operational efficiency
  • Technology: Java, C++, JavaScript, Oracle
JavaC++JavaScriptOracleEngineering Management

Software Engineer

Jul 1995Aug 2001 · 6 yrs 1 mo · California, United States

  • Implementations for Credit/Debit Card functionality within an integrated payment system for Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Royal Bank of Canada, National Processing Center
  • Led innovations and implementation for Smart Card systems in Australian Railways, Electric Meter controlled thru prepaid card, personal ATM at home for loading money into smartcard.
  • Tools: C++, Unix Shell Scripts, Oracle - Pro*C, PL/SQL; Oracle DB Administration - Backup and Recovery, Scripts
C++Unix Shell ScriptsOracle

Oracle

Development Manager

Aug 2001Feb 2003 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore

  • Engineering and Product Management responsibility for Oracle ERP – Payments capability
  • Engineering responsibility for Solution implementation
  • Technology: Java JavaScript, Oracle
JavaJavaScriptOracle

Education

National Institute of Technology Calicut

B. Tech — Computer Science and Engineering

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