Bala Karthik Baskaran Email & Phone Number

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

- Lead strategic AI initiatives tailored for consumer business growth to drive growth and innovation.- Spearhead innovation efforts, developing groundbreaking AI powered customer engagement solutions for enhanced operations and customer experiences.- Guide enterprises in seamless AI integration, optimizing value chain success.- Advocate for emerging technologies, providing expert guidance on AI strategies in consumer business growth- Technical Sales Engineering of the AI powered customer engagement solutions to drive sales and growth for TCS

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

- Head of ALPHA-X ENGINEERING LAB, BTG, TCS.- Architect of Modern Engineering Disciplines and New Gen Experiments including Generative AI

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

Chennai Area, India

- Responsible for leading the Microservices, API , Cloud and ATG Center of Excellence in the Retail Practice and providing technical thought leadership on Digital Transformation using niche technologies.- Defining Architecture Strategy for transforming monolithic applications into a set of highly flexible, highly scalable micro-services and functional products on Google Cloud Platform and Azure Platform- Specialized in implementing Headless Microservices Architecture, Containerization, Serverless FaaS, Netflix OSS Components, DevSecops Pipeline Components, Cloud Adoption (Google Cloud and Azure) and Opensource ecosystem including orchestration engines like Kubernetes, Istio Service Mesh and Monitoring components like ELK , Grafana, Heapster, Prometheus, etc.- Microsoft Azure Certified Cloud Architect- Responsible for grooming Full stack programmers/Ninja Developers on the niche technologies disrupting the IT industry.

Chennai Area, India

- Responsible for leading the ATG Center of Excellence in the Retail Multi-channel Practice at Tata Consultancy Services and have been a key member in the architecture governance board of various ATG engagements.- Have been instrumental in winning deals and have been an active technical advocate in presales engagements.- Responsible for architecture and strategy of B2B and B2C ecommerce applications for a globally distributed clientele.

Chennai Area, India

- Responsible for technical delivery of the key functionalities of various ATG application modules and third party integrations with the ecommerce site of a leading Nutrition and Supplements Retailer.- Have been instrumental in ensuring the quality of the delivery from a technical perspective and lead a team of senior ATG developers and guide them during all phases of the development lifecycle in an agile model.

Chennai,Tn,India And Minneapolis,Usa

- Responsible for Design and Development of the key functionalities of Bestbuy.com and leading the ATG team of developers and senior developers. - Have been guiding the team in the implementation of various modules during all phases and ensuring the development from extensibility, performance, scalability, re-usability.- Responsible for leading the Native Mobile application development of Bestbuy mobile app for both Android and IOS platforms

Chennai,Tamilnadu

- Responsible for the support and operations of the catalog, search, pricing and promotion, commerce and personalization modules of Bestbuy.com. - Have been a key member in applying hotfixes and enhancements to the key modules of the ATG ecommerce site, merchandising and customer care applications

B.E, Electronics And Communication

Activities and Societies: General Secretary,Impulse,Society of Electronics and Communications Engineers,2005 Member of IETE

Hsc(+2), Computer Science