Prasad Balakrishnan Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, KA, IN

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Head of a startup with a strong backing and exceptional technology partnership, with a vision to build a successful storage memory design technology company in India which brings cutting edge products and solutions to the Indian and Global markets.

Brought on board to head the R&D for a leading telecom major. Define technology strategy, and translate innovation into superior products for current and future-ready demand. Strengthen R&D process and policies to ensure smoother product delivery. Moved the engineering focus from Carrier driven to Home user devices and Small / Medium ISP markets as well.

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Led the transition of the Cray India team to successfully integrate into HPE systems division post its acquisition by HPE with zero attrition in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Selected to lead the R&D for the Cray BU in India, expand the exascale work, and drive successful customer installations.

India

Transitioned as Head of R&D and Business Development for Cray post its acquisition of Seagate system division with a mandate to setup a new R&D Center in India and execute the Multi-Million dollar deal secured from Government of India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Took on the responsibility for Seagate Flash R&D post-Xiotech’s acquisition of ISE Technology with accountability for driving the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Seagate HPC Open Systems products. Led engineering /R&D teams & technology delivery functions to deliver new product introductions, product improvements, and new operational efficiencies..

Hyderabad

Spearheaded as Technical Product Manager to support the product lifecycle from concept, design, implementation, testing, launch, production, promotion, and support, while prioritizing and balancing the needs of customers and stakeholders. Later took on the reigns to build the entire R&D team at the ODC in Hyderabad.

Joined XioTech USA and took on the mandate to setup the Offshore Development Centre in India from ground up.

Click to Meet Conference Server: Principal Software Engineer to architect, develop and implement support for Microsoft Live Communications Server 2003 / 2005 beta (Kerberos and NTLM modes of authentication) and also provide support for Cisco SIP Proxy (Digest and Basic modes of authentication) on the Click to Meet Conference Server 8.0. W

My role as Principal Software Engineer was to be involved with a team of developers for the Click to Meet Premier product.

Designed and implemented an Oracle Database for the PurePoint product and service business. PurePoint offers enterprises and telecommunication service providers a highly scalable and user-friendly way of addressing their conferencing needs by making video collaboration easier through a web portal. T

Responsible of getting their Web launch and also involved in a lot of coding and development connected to their offerings at that time.

Was primarily involved in architecture and design of a live streaming web cast website. I was also very actively involved in a lot of minor projects as given by the company. These projects included a database administrator project which involved a banking schedule component for Times Bank, India. This would eventually allow fast, easy and browser based.

ASP, CICS, DB2 and a lot more Y2k projects and its connected training development. Involved in a lot of coding on decoders for Y2k which was instrumental in finding out the date bugs in code.

Job involved doing a number of projects that were contracted to Focus Infotech. Primary work involved working on Y2K problems on Mainframes and DB2 and OS2/Warp simulated environments. Some of the main projects that I was involved in are: Off Shore Maintenance, Household Finance Corporation, Switzerland - I was responsible for design and implementation of.

Mca, Computer Science, Maths

Completed my computer science foundation which has helped me to grow higher in the field of computer science.

B.Sc Computer Science, Computer Science, Maths

Did my college project on space research which has kept me connected to the space and scientific community till date.