Arun Balaraman Email & Phone Number

- Driving hybrid AI and Automation Solution- End to End Cloud native solutioning.- US Tech AI Hackathon champion.- Principal architect for group Benefits suit of customer onboarding applications. Focusing on Application stack modernizing, performance scalability of both on prem and on cloud applications.- Group Benefits application SME and Architect- Designed the dark deployment framework for the Group benefits application that enabled applications to deploy in a more agile fashion.- Improved deployment efficiency by 70% and cut Deployment cost by 40%- Architected the Group benefits System API strategy and framework to streamline the integration with the various channels. - Improved customer implementation system to processing throughput by 200% and future capacity by 500%- Contributed to the internal MetLife Tech governance , presented technical seminars on various cutting edge topics and develop enablement.- As Devops evangelist streamlined and improved Release delivery process using Agile & DevOps process achieving 35% delivery speed and efficiency - Mentored local students and interns

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

- Asset servicing US region SME and System Architect for the Global Corporate action Election component architect. Designed the ground up platform for handling the Corporate action notifications using Event driven architecture using custom MQ frameworks . -Improved efficiency by 90% from manual Spread sheet based processing to the Event driven architecture- The system was built to handle vertical scaling of the transactions from several hundred per day to several thousands transaction per day. Responsible to the full system design and migration. - Oversaw the multi year migration from the legacy platform to the new platform with the modern tech stack.

- As Senior Engineer Designed customer integration and enterprise ingrain portal used extensively by the field workers. - Performed application server performance running and redesigned several modules to boost scalability and performance

- A Senior software Engineer of the tools team contributed the various IBM Software management tools. Implemented the custom connection pooling for DB connection management that was used by several modules. - Build custom application servers for handling various OTP- Developed various application modules that would later integrate with the IBM open source eclipse project.

Mba, Business Administration

Be, Computer Science