Balki Ranganathan Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam, NH, NL

Utrecht, NL

• Typically fulfil interim roles such as Program Director, CTO, COO, CPO, VP Engineering, Enterprise Architect, Business Process Architect for startups, scaleups and enterprises.Management and Leadership
• Lead org functions/departments/teams in alignment with board/ownership strategy and vision
• Perform due diligence for, and manage mergers and acquisitions
• Build new teams/culture based on goals, people and discoveryAnalysis and Transformation
• Solution discoveries for startups
• Capture organization's vision and strategy and map them to OKRs, process and architecture

Utrecht, NL

• Lead multiple product teams to successful deliveries.
• Optimized process for up to 60% faster MVP release with smooth post-release transition plans.
• Uncompromising focus on user experience, flagship quality/polish, and frequent delivery.
• Hand-picked features for maximum impact on each vertical-slice release.
• Curated team and project focus to meet dynamic, real-world needs such as investor meetings, conferences, and workshops to deliver key features as priority.
• Built teams specific to customer/product needs and managed multi-disciplinary teams, scaling up and down as appropriate.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

London, GB

Occupied interim leadership roles as we brought together multiple companies and sought to integrate them together. Interim Head of IT, Program Management and Product+Engineering.

The Hague, ZH, NL

Amsterdam, North Holland, NL

Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, NL

El Segundo, CA, US

• Owner of multiple key features in one of the flagship products in our suite.
• Drastically improved team workflow in under 2 months of joining project teams.
• Optimized complex database queries in multi-tenant systems.
• Worked with design, QA and product teams extensively to align product vision with development efforts and roadmap planning.
• Built open-source code-generation and automation tools in use by many projects to reduce human errors and increase productivity by as much as 40%.
• Planned and architected blue-green deployment infrastructure with our in-house DevOps team.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Designed and architected experiential interfaces for system and process insights for the department of astronautical engineering in collaboration with companies such as Boeing.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Mentored students in the Game Engine Development and Advanced Game Projects courses and helped execute them.
• Authored course materials to help students learn various game development skills and build games on various devices.
• Designed fun, dynamic tests to realistically test key concepts and learnings based on experience and knowledge of needs of industry.
• Wrote multiple automation scripts for evaluating assignments, recording game outputs and integrating with Perforce version control, Excel and Google Sheets.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Mentored students in the Game Engine Development and Advanced Game Projects courses and helped execute them.

Redwood City, CA, US

• Designed, architected and developed solutions to: o Collect multi-modal playtest feedback and verify against game sessionso Deploy builds and other resources for playtests on multiple nodes and platforms (PC/Xbox/PS4)o.

Redwood City, CA, US

• Conducted playtests and prepared reports with clear, actionable feedback on what was observed and added recommendations backed by human-computer interaction and psychology research.

Redwood City, CA, US

• Designed, architected and developed solutions to: o Collect multi-modal playtest feedback and verify against game sessionso Deploy builds and other resources for playtests on multiple nodes and platforms (PC/Xbox/PS4)o.

Marina Del Rey, California, US

• Led a team that designed, architected and developed software to visualize multi-format and multi-source data.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Led a team that designed, architected and developed a Massively Multiplayer Online Game that served as a platform for behavioral, social-science and economic research.
• Helped students learn various game development skills and build games on various devices such as the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation Vita.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Mentored students in the Game Engine Development and Advanced Game Projects courses and helped execute them.
• Managed the development of a game in the Serious Games course.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Lead teams that designed and developed a Force Basketball game and a prototype exploring new ways to use the Force!
• Developed an extensive real-time, interactive debugging system and engine framework for the projects building on an in-house renderer and input system for the PC and Xbox 360.

• Co-developed a prototype networked virtual environment with Wiimote support for various civilian scenario simulations.
• Developed a tool to annotate and index vast volumes of historical archived video content.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Developed samples and tutorials on web development, networking, video games, user experience, device programming and robotics.
• Taught new and pre-release software and frameworks to students and instructors all over the country and helped develop customized solutions based on their needs.
• Delivered many presentations to large audiences, conducted hands-on lab sessions and live TV tutorials.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Organized conferences, workshops and hands-on labs across the country to teach new technologies and best practices in software development.
• Managed personnel for multiple student groups.

• Designed various publications for print in multiple formats.
• Designed and developed multiple websites for corporate customers.
• Edited and built title and credits scenes for movies.

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science

High School Diploma, Science, Sanskrit