Balaji M. Email & Phone Number

Chesterfield, Mo, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

As the leader of Employer Services Technology at Equifax, I oversee critical solutions such as Onboarding Forms (including I-9, WOTC, IW4 Forms), ACA, and UC Products, all offered as SaaS solutions. These tailored offerings cater to Fortune 500 and SMB businesses, assisting them in effectively managing compliance requirements and optimizing tax savings.Throughout my tenure with the company, I've held a pivotal role as a key member of the leadership team, overseeing a broad spectrum of responsibilities. This includes driving technology strategy, crafting product roadmaps, overseeing platform and product engineering, overseeing IT infrastructure, maintaining SLAs, managing data center operations, enforcing security protocols, compliance, and developing business continuity plans. With a team of over 770 people, I am entrusted with managing an annual budget of $110M.Some notable achievements during my leadership tenure include:★ Successfully transitioning on-premise hosted platforms to GCP cloud infrastructure, including $2B revenue-generating platforms. This strategic move led to a cost savings of $17M in operational expenses and reduced time-to-market from months to a week.★ Spearheading the development of digital transformation, enhancing the HR product suite for a high-growth business unit. These platforms seamlessly integrated e-commerce functionalities and B2B/Partner API systems.★ Implementing a transformation from ETL-based billing systems to event-based "Data Engineering," enabling a 100x increase in transaction volume and achieving 4x revenue growth(from $582M to $2.3B)★ Innovating and implementing AI/ML solutions at a rapid pace, resulting in a reduction of $10M in operational costs by incorporating VertexAI and Predictive Analytics Solutions.★ Playing a pivotal role in all stages of M&A activities,including due diligence, integrating acquired assets(9 Companies),assimilating leadership and teams, and expanding product portfolios.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Purchase, Ny, Us

In my role as the leader of Dispute and Identity products, I directed the software development and Quality Engineering (QE) teams, supervising engineering deliverables across various products within the enterprise security solutions division. Throughout my tenure with the company, I've held a pivotal role as a key member of the leadership team, overseeing a broad spectrum of responsibilities. This includes building delivery teams globally, architecting the solutions with partners, enforcing security as part of the SDLC practices, expanded the teams from 3 to 20 over 120+engineering talent across the globe (St Louis, Pune, and Dublin)Some of my contributions include:★ Guiding the delivery teams in the development of different products, including mobile and consumer apps, B2B solutions, and Rest APIs for NAM, LAC, and MEA based customers.★ Spearheading the execution of the talent transformation strategy, expanding from 3 teams to 20 teams over 120+ engineering organizations in 4 regional technology centers in St Louis, Dublin-Ireland, Pune-India, and Curitiba-Brazil.★ I successfully executed numerous companywide focused initiatives such as 3D-S 2.0 implementation per EMVCo specifications, global launch.★ I was able to re-architect and deliver dispute processing with a modern application stack which included PCF Cloud enabled deployments and was recognized with a company wide award for the leadership contributions.★ I also served as the chair for "Dev-Sec-Ops, " steering leadership teams to incorporate security as part of SAFe Program Increment in-sprint implementation. I led diagnostics tools solutions and engaged with Cloud enabled test teams (uTest) to implement production environment end to end automation solutions.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

As the leader, Throughout my tenure at The Weather Channel, I played a pivotal role, defining the cloud transformation roadmap, architecting cloud infrastructure, and implementing solutions that support a platform processing 10 billion API requests daily (equivalent to 115,000 requests per second) across six global regions.Some of my notable contributions include:★ Creating a platform handling 10 billion daily requests (for weather API across iOS Apple and Android devices), serving weather products to all Apple and Samsung devices (including lazy loads and push alerts).★ Led Engineering efforts during major product releases, including the redesign of all native applications and the launch of an API Platform to deliver weather data to Apple devices.★ Established an engineering organization across the company's global locations in Canada, Atlanta, NY, SFO, and India. This involved overseeing recruitment processes for individuals with diverse skill sets, ranging from developers and QA managers to SDET's and performance engineering teams.★ Brought various toolset to the organization AppDynamics, Jenkins, TestRail, KIF/Objective-C automation suites, tSung, Selendroid, and Appium to speed up the in-sprint deliverables. ★Enabling comprehensive product health monitoring (CI solutions) by introducing a "Common SDLC Dashboard" portal, offering an overview of all products, and release health.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Bachelors, Computer Science And Engineering

Diploma In Computer Science And Engineering, Computer Science And Engineering

10Th Standard, High School