Balaji Thirugnanam Email & Phone Number

Silicon Valley, California

At INT9 Solutions, we are experts in delivering cutting edge initiatives in three major areas - Data Engineering, Analytics and Gen AI. We closely work with world class clients from startups to Fortune 1000 companies and their cross-functional teams(Procurement, Product, GTM, Sales, Marketing, Finance etc) in delivering business critical initiatives. We bring game-changing talent through our setup in on-site, on-shore and off-shore locations to execute projects in a resilient and economical fit. I was personally responsible for, * Setting up off-shore/on-site hybrid teams to deliver complex, three-tiered data warehouse migration to Snowflake, integrate diverse data sources and build analytics solution using Tableau/SiSense. * Closely working with cross-functional teams (GTM, Sales/Marketing, Finance) to ensure a smooth transition and delivering valuable insights for all stakeholders.* Implementing Infra-as-Code(IaC) for secure and efficient cloud deployments, secure registry for containers, integrate FinOps tools, drive decision to "shift left/right" security practices for containers and microservices.* Developing PoC's by integrating LLMs such as GPT, Gemini(formerly Bard) to consume free-form text and deliver data structures, and business insights. * Managed teams that specialize in configuring RBAC, Tags-onomy, Dynamic masking, Hybrid tables and blind aggregation etc* Develop apps for Salesforce (Aura, Lightning, Apex), Snowflake(SnowSQL, Snowpark). * Architecting and delivering projects using Java/J2EE technologies, JSON, Restful web-services, JUnit test cases, Swagger, JavaScript, Ajax, PHP, AWS and Google Cloud Platform, Docker, Kubernetes, OAuth 2.0, Helm Chart, YAML, AWS, GCP.

Silicon Valley, California, United States

* Delivered complex cross-functional programs and projects to deliver health care solutions for three business groups ; improvise unstructured project execution to agile among 4 departments and off-shore/on-shore teams* Improved the project execution confidence by 30% through agile practices and streamlining project activities into measurable objectives and milestones, and setting KPIs for execution.* Improved process efficiency by developing vendor management plan, resource hiring strategy, SOW, MSA, non-compete and budgeting for projects.Management* Managed programs of size $300k to $20MM for clients such as Kaiser Permanente, Brightstems Inc. * Plan, lead and mentor Agile practices such as sprint planning, burn up/burn downs, estimation using T-Shirt sizing and/or Fibonacci Series, contracts, dependencies, release planning and staffing plan. Promote organizational understanding of Agile roles, lead team and individuals to transition from unstructured Agile to structured Agile focused on delivery. Technical* Improved the project execution confidence by 30% through de-constructing corporate vision into measurable objectives and milestones, participate in architectural discussions and help design the overall architecture, and set KPIs for execution. * Organized community events and conferences with 1800+ attendees

* Manage a Snowflake data warehousing migration project to implement end-to-end Data engineering, Data analytics features by leading 15 off-shore & on-site developers; increased efficiency through processes by 40%.* Managed projects for 5 cross functional business teams(Go to Market(GTM), Marketing, Sales, Finance and business analytics) and 3 regions(EMEA, APAC and North Americas)* Oversaw discovery calls with potential clients, project estimates & proposals, statement of work(SOW) and processes to reduce attrition* Responsible for building and executing the overall program to migrate from SQL Server to Snowflake.Coordinated the off-shore and on-shore teams by employing the "follow the sun" model* Develop order of magnitude estimates & proposals, trackrisks & mitigation plan, defect triaging, deliver the project schedule and follow through thecommitments through the project closure

Newark, California, United States

• Reworked the matrix-Agile organization into a true Agile shop and improved visibility into product delivery by 65%. #agilemindset• Re-organized the single scrum team into multiple scrum teams and improved agility by 35%.• Developed a people friendly environment and slashed employee attrition rate by 90%• Built micro-services based containerized development using Docker, Kubernetes,YAML and improved the chances of product white labelling by 90%.• Migrate to AWS and improved application reachability and overall application performance by 60%• Built technical support team to address customer facing issues and improved response time by 75% #techsupportservices• Increased team size by15% in 6 months during the COVID-19 pandemic through staffing pipeline and onboarding process for new joiners #staffaugmentation

Pittsburgh, Pa

* Develop solutions using Java/J2EE technologies, JSON, Restful web-services, JUnit testcases. * Managing the technology program for the Volcker Rules Desk.* Manage software upgrades for Capital Markets Fixed Income group (SunGard InTrader, LoanTrak and numerous other home grown applications)* Manage fulfillment of regulatory requirement mandates for the Fixed Income group(BASEL, FINRA mandates)* Manage merger & acquistion workset for Capital Markets Fixed Income group.

Pittsburgh, Pa

Pittsburgh, Pa

Pittsburgh, Pa

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Executive Track, 3.72

Pursued my Masters in Business Administration degree.

Engineer'S Degree, Computer Science Engineering, First Class

Pursued my Bacherlor's degree

Diploma, Computer Science Engineering, First Class

Bachelor in Engineering(Computer Science)