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Balaji Varadharaj

Balaji Varadharaj

Information Technology
Chennai

Summary

With over 30 years of extensive experience in technology management, excels in designing, implementing, and owning project deliveries. Expertise lies in supporting business goals, building effective teams, and successfully driving and delivering projects. Good communicator, motivator, and innovator with excellent knowledge of technical, functional, and operational disciplines.

Overview

30
30
years of professional experience
7
7
Certifications

Work History

Director

Infinilytics Technologies Pvt Ltd, Charlee.ai -USA
06.2014 - Current
  • Charlee.ai provides Insurance Claims analytic solution with advanced insights, severity management, litigation prediction, attorney involvement and streamlining decision making
  • Co-ordinate, Support a change from requirement to all the way to production deployment
  • Build, Support and maintain infrastructure at AWS, GCP, Azure
  • Participating and Providing design solution on the product feature and performance enhancement
  • Implementing standards throughout the SDLC process
  • Managing the India operation
  • Implemented innovative solutions to solve complex problems, resulting in increased productivity and streamlined operations.
  • Proactively identified potential risks and implemented mitigation strategies to minimize negative impacts on projects or business operations.
  • Strengthened internal controls by reviewing existing policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
  • Developed high-performing teams by providing mentorship, guidance, and opportunities for professional growth
  • Improved project efficiency with strategic planning, resource allocation, and time management practices.

Big Data Consultant

Vitti Technologies
11.2012 - 05.2014

Independent Software Consultant providing Big data solution in telecom and banking sector with Hadoop eco systems


IDM Technical Manager / Project Manager

AIGSS / Mphasis an HP Company
09.2006 - 10.2012
  • Company Overview: Client: American International Group – AIG, New Jersey, USA
  • Responsible for Project Delivery
  • Provided architectural and technical guidance to the team, implemented coding standards and change management process
  • Successfully transitioned from IDM product vendor and saved on cost
  • Without business impact successfully Upgraded IDM 3.5 to 4.0.1 along with infrastructure upgrade from SLES 9 to SLES 11
  • Successfully Consolidated Corporate and Regional vaults, Flatten tree for better management and avoided lot of operational issues
  • Responsible for implementing Authentication Tree, AD with password sync, Exchange 2007, eDirectory, RACF, TopSecret, JDBC and Loopback drivers
  • Manage team at onsite and offshore
  • Managing hiring resources, organizing training and resource travel to onsite and offshore
  • Managing organization process requirement like auditing, status report and team timesheets to the billing system
  • Client: American International Group – AIG, New Jersey, USA

Data Architect / Lead DBA

AIGSS / Mphasis an HP Company
02.2004 - 08.2006
  • Company Overview: Client: American International Group – AIG, New Jersey, USA
  • Responsible for Data modeling for eBusiness applications like building content management system, Emergency Messaging System
  • Implemented Active-Active database solution for eBusiness applications and built data guard for high availability
  • Responsible for high availability and performance of Production database, also Dev and QA
  • Managed production data warehouse database for web application metrics
  • Provided database solution using materialized views to publish eBusiness application content, transparent data encryption and transparent data versioning
  • Responsible for application performance on database operations
  • Mentor and manage DBA and middleware team

Senior Associate / DBA

Polaris Software Lab
09.2003 - 02.2004
  • Company Overview: Client: American International Group – AIG, New Jersey, USA
  • Responsible for availability and performance of Production database, also Dev and QA
  • Provided database solutions for eBusiness applications

DBA / Senior Developer

WatchMark Corp
07.1998 - 04.2003
  • Company Overview: Now IBM
  • Designed and developed WatchMark Prospect upgrade tool
  • Played DBA role
  • Migrated part of the application from Informix to Oracle
  • Developed few modules as part of the WatchMark Prospect application like database partition maintenance, backup solutions and etc
  • Administered, supported, and monitored databases by proactively resolving database issues and maintaining servers.
  • Streamlined backup and recovery processes, enhancing overall system stability and availability.
  • Created and updated database designs and data models.
  • Streamlined data retrieval and processing, designing and optimizing complex SQL queries for business intelligence.

Software Consultant

Binariang Sdn. Bhd. – Maxis
07.1995 - 03.1998
  • Provided several database solutions in Telecom domain

System Analyst

LOG-IN Systems, The Systems Division of Synergy Credit Corp. Ltd
02.1995 - 07.1995
  • Implemented custodial solutions for State Bank of India to manage their NRI customers in Oracle

Education

Computer Science And Engineering

Department of Technical Education
Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Bachelor of Economics – BA -

Madras University

Master of Business Administration - MBA -

Madras University

Skills

Project Management

Operations Management

People Management

Strategic Planning

Performance Management

Problem-solving

Analytical skills

Decision making

Risk Management

Organizational development

Big data

Data Architect

Database Solutions

Cloud Solution

Certification

• Cloudera Certified Administrator for Apache Hadoop (CCAH)

Timeline

Director

Infinilytics Technologies Pvt Ltd, Charlee.ai -USA
06.2014 - Current

Big Data Consultant

Vitti Technologies
11.2012 - 05.2014

IDM Technical Manager / Project Manager

AIGSS / Mphasis an HP Company
09.2006 - 10.2012

Data Architect / Lead DBA

AIGSS / Mphasis an HP Company
02.2004 - 08.2006

Senior Associate / DBA

Polaris Software Lab
09.2003 - 02.2004

DBA / Senior Developer

WatchMark Corp
07.1998 - 04.2003

Software Consultant

Binariang Sdn. Bhd. – Maxis
07.1995 - 03.1998

System Analyst

LOG-IN Systems, The Systems Division of Synergy Credit Corp. Ltd
02.1995 - 07.1995

Computer Science And Engineering

Department of Technical Education

Bachelor of Economics – BA -

Madras University

Master of Business Administration - MBA -

Madras University
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