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Accomplished Chief Technology Officer with 25+ years of success in financial systems. Strong leadership capabilities in Innovation, transformation, cloud technologies, enterprise architecture, software development, IT Infrastructure management, security, data analytics, data governance and business intelligence driving business value. Expert in navigating regulatory process and compliance. Promotes collaboration, innovation, and customer-centricity. Proficient in emerging tech like AI and Cloud. Committed to long-term success through strategic planning and team building. Thrive in ambiguity while demonstrating composed and calm leadership. Trusted partner adept at cultivating strong business and client relationships.• Successfully developed strategies and executed cloud transformation, refactoring and re-platforming monolithic systems into microservices for 140+ applications using DevOPS, CI/CD, automation, and API Commercialization, resulting in a 40% improvement in speed-to-market efficiency.• Led Application Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, data, analytics, AI and Information Technology infrastructure organizations, digital transformation, new business integration with excellent change management that contributed to a growth in receivables exceeding $30B+.• Founded SRE practice, increasing enterprise systems uptime, reliability using emerging technologies , observability achieving a 99.9%+ SLA/SLO.• Enhanced security, data protection, and data privacy implementing DevSecOPS using cyber security tools, encryption, tokenization, static and dynamic code scanning.• Spearheaded a stability, scalability, reliability and productivity increase of 30% using cloud computing, analytical skills, by simplifying, redesigning, and pragmatic solutions leading to annual savings exceeding $30 million.• Managed, mentored, motivated a team of over 1600+ engineers across application, network, server, and database with excellent employee engagement . Managed budgets over $350MM, ensuring efficient IT operations, strategic planning with strong financial accumen aligning to business strategy.• Exceptional ability to collaborate, in stakeholder management, presentation skills and strong relationship-building skills, maximizing the value of strategic executive partnerships both within and across business organizations.
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Head Of Enginnering And Enterprise ArchitectureAssured PartnersAlpharetta, Ga, Us
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Chief Technology OfficerSynchrony Jun 2021 - Sep 2023Atlanta, Georgia, United States• Orchestrated a comprehensive cloud strategy, contract negotiations, cloud architecture for private, hybrid, AWS, Azure and GCP, aligning to business strategy establishing a multi-year roadmap through strategic partnerships with well-defined KPIs and KRIs.• Translated complex technological issues into clearly defined frameworks and meticulously scripted action plans for efficient incident response, problem-solving with enterprise data science, data management, analytics, and artificial intelligence improving operational excellence.• Conducted rigorous testing of cybersecurity technologies and network penetration assessment tools to enhance security and data protection.• Maintained high-level awareness of current, emerging technologies, industry trends to ensure competitive advantage to future opportunities, through strategic thinking resulting in 50% customer service improvement.• Formulated technological strategies and system architectures to enhance regulatory compliance, cloud operations with root cause analysis, and strong risk management.• Devised a thorough technology strategy and roadmap covering data, network, telecom, infrastructure, end-user computing, server administration, service desk, ServiceNow for long-term alignment with organization’s growth goals for cost efficiency, security, and sustainable business outcomes.• Communicated, comprehensive briefings, written communications to executive leaders on information technology risk and optimal ways to mitigate concerns. -
Svp, Head Of Application EngineeringSynchrony Oct 2019 - Jun 2021Alpharetta, Ga• Led successful Enterprise Architecture, system design, modern Cloud Transformation, and Digital Transformation, transitioning the financial services, and consumer banking organization to cloud native services, increasing speed to market by 40% while reducing annual budget.• Founded Innovative Reliability Engineering team, leading a hybrid DevOps with CICD, automation and SRE transformation. Increased efficiency 60% reduced quality control and quality assurance time by 20%.• Boosted organization's API capabilities for easy and fast integration reducing integration time by 30%.• Built, coached, motivated high energy levels and enthusiasm in a dynamic, fast-paced environment through collaborative team management skills.• Surpassed goals via strategic task prioritization, change management and outstanding colaborative team engagement.
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Svp, Enterprise Integration ServicesSynchrony Mar 2015 - Oct 2019Atlanta, Ga• Redesigned the traditional Release Management into a modern DevOps transforming over 140+ applications while achieving an impressive 50% reduction in defects and 30% reduction in integration cost.• Led a software engineering with operating budget of $35+ million and built services using cloud infrastructure with cloud architecture delivering outstanding scalability, availability, security, and performance exceeding expectations.• Orchestrated successful digital transformation of legacy systems to service / APIs using agile methodology, DevOps, containerization and Kubernetes through effective change management and technical competence, resulted in $40+MM in annual benefits.• Spearheaded application modernization by optimizing development complexity using PaaS with effective collaboration and communication.• Collaborated with senior leaders, executives to formulate and implement tech strategies delivering business value.
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Vp Product DevelopmentSoftcard Oct 2011 - Mar 2015Atlanta, Ga* Lead and created a secure & compliant mobile wallet. * Created a strong technology team. * Successfully Integrated the most complex eco system comprise of all major handset manufactures, three major mobile networks(ATT, Verizon, Tmobile), multiple Issuing Banks(Chase, Amex, CapOne etc), all payment networks (Visa, Master, Amex, Discover). -
CtoGe Capital - Retail Consumer Finance Mar 2007 - Sep 2011United States• Successfully established a fully redundant secondary data center, significantly increasing availability while reducing downtime exposure and third-party disaster recovery cost.• Drastically improved eCommerce capabilities, enhancing availability and upgrading the user experience on mobile devices. This effort supported 144 million unique visitors and served 1.5 billion pages annually.• Oversaw the upgrade of workstation BPO infrastructure, ensuring high availability, monitoring, and rapid recovery capabilities. This system served 55 million cardholders, managing 145 million inbound contacts and 930 million outbound calls each year.• Built IT Strategy, pioneered the virtualization of more than 300 servers, resulting in a reduction of operating expenses by over $20 million.• Managed, enhanced, and maintained compliance and security currency for approximately 1,200 servers and approximately 200 terabytes across 50+ databases.
Bala Ranganathan Education Details
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Physics
Frequently Asked Questions about Bala Ranganathan
What company does Bala Ranganathan work for?
Bala Ranganathan works for Assured Partners
What is Bala Ranganathan's role at the current company?
Bala Ranganathan's current role is Head of enginnering and Enterprise Architecture.
What schools did Bala Ranganathan attend?
Bala Ranganathan attended Pondicherry Engineering College, University Of Madras.
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