Balaji Balakrishnan possesses expertise in soa, web services, xml, java, agile methodologies and 31 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Balaji worked multiple years in my organization and is one of the seldom managers with a strong technical background as well as the capability to drive critical projects and handle process related work. Balaji has proven continuously to be an asset for my organisation, both professional as well as personal." and "Balaji was my first Manager when I joined Software AG. He is a dream manager for any employee. I have never seen a mixture of technical and people management ability in a single person more than Balaji. Due to his supreme technical knowledge he can always help the engineers to learn and do the complex technical stuff. His knowledge from Basics of Data Structure / networking/OS/ Java to complex product design are excellent. This gives him the unique ability to see and solve the problems from any perspective as required. Also he always thinks about the organization first and that's why he always shares his knowledge with the peers/juniors so that they can also improve.I could only work with him for 1 year before he was transferred to Chennai. But in that 1 year he imparted so much knowledge on me about product that I spent 5 years in software AG only reusing/enhancing that knowledge he gave to me . In future I want to work again with Balaji in any organization without any hesitation if given a chance ."