RAJAGOPALAN BALASUBRAMANIAN
AVP Product Development
Chennai,TN
Summary
· A high velocity, high energy software development professional with a total IT experience of 16 years
· Successfully demonstrated experience in setting up high quality engineering team and mentoring them towards continued excellence in delivery
· Proven capability of owning the product and the technical architecture by driving engineering design, shouldering critical engineering and architecture decision
· Meticulous scanning of market landscape, competitor analysis, identifying USP and product-market fit
· Strong product development fundamentals, Scrum,12 factor Software development, Design Patterns, SOLID principles, Data Modelling, API design, Test Driven Development
· 10 years of product engineering experience in EdTech building an ecosystem of products and continuously delivering for K12 schools involved in influencing product roadmap, technical architecture & user experience design.
• 6 years of engineering experience in Banking domain, enhancing application security aspects , mitigating and preventing application security vulnerabilities
• Java EE frameworks, Springboot, WebServices, AWS, Angular, Python Data Analytics, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Maven, Ant, Git, Quartz, Unix, Oracle, Autonomy TeamSite 6.7, LiveSite components, workflows and server configurations etc, JIRA, SalesForce etc
Auto Industry Experience :
· 8 years of experience in Auto parts manufacturing company that manufactured and distributed LPG conversion kits for Petrol cars while pursuing my graduation and post graduation through distance education
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Assistant Vice President - Product Development
Karka Kasadara Edulabs
Chennai
05.2018 - Current
- Instrumental in creation of this EdTech startup, responsible for creating and leading entire Engineering, Product, Content and Book development teams
- Responsible for ideation, market research, competitor analysis, product strategy, definition, design, roadmap, development, managing SDLC, positioning evangelizing, deployment, training and customer satisfaction.
- Successfully led development of 6 products which form a learning ecosystem that measures and helps improvement of academic productivity in K12 chain of schools. Later consolidated these products into one unified app as well as standalone offerings to clients
- Developed applications being used by almost a lakh plus students from K12 to Higher Ed. Daily transactions include academic, operations and fee transactions
- Grown team to around 80 members through consistent recruitment, onboarding, setting up processes, building effective engineering team and mentoring them.
- Handling AWS infrastructure using services like EC2, IAM, CloudFront, RDS, S3 and Polly.
General Manager - Elearning & Technology
Velammal Educational Trust, Chennai
Chennai
09.2014 - 04.2018
- Revamped the Financial planning systems and fee collection software that handles around 500 thousand transactions per year across the group.
- Changed Fee collection systems from fully offline to online for a lakh plus students which improved collection with reduced overheads, preventing financial leak, better audit trails and increased customer satisfaction.
- Intervened and resolved long pending latency issues at the group's Medical hospital management software that handles around 3 million unique patient records
- Established IT strategy, policies, budgeting that align and add value to the core business.
- Managed adoption and customisation of LMS across 50 schools in phased manner.
- Championed data driven business decisions through software dashboards.
- Managed content development with Rapid content authoring, cloud deployment and classroom delivery both via web and mobile.
- Revamped websites and improved digital footprint with SEO and digital marketing.
- Integrated new products with existing legacy applications to avoid data, people and process redundancies.
- Adopted AWS cloud services: EC2, IAM, RDS, Route-53, Polly, VPC for projects to cut costs and avoid Capex in terms of UPS, Firewalls and Servers across 21 schools
Consultant
CapGemini, Chennai
02.2014 - 09.2014
- Part of the development team involved in enhancing the Core Banking application of Standard Chartered Bank.
- Developed and Integrated PinPad components (PIN validation @ Teller) to Core Banking application.
- Integrated Card encoder / Decoder to the application.
Associate Domain Specialist, Triage Manager
CSS Corp, Chennai
Project Blackboard LMS
04.2013 - 01.2014
- Managed Customization of products delivered as a managed service to various client universities according to their need
- Developed and customized add-on modules for Blackboard LMS installations as part of (Integration, Customization and Maintenance)
- Re-engineered pluggable Web modules for improved performance.
- Triage Managed resources to support Integration, Customization and Maintenance of multiple universities and schools' Blackboard installations and SIS.
- Worked on Spring, Struts, Tomcat, MQ, Quartz scheduler, RedHat Linux, Oracle and SQL Server.
Associate consultant
Citibank UK IPB, Polaris Financial Technology Ltd, Chennai
08.2010 - 03.2013
- Development and maintenance of Online Banking Portal of Citibank UK IPB.
- Part of the enhancements and maintenance activities on Brokerage transactions module dealing on Equity & MFsamong High Networth Individuals
- Also handled Credit cards, Rewards program changes, Loans, Straight Through processing etc
- Involved in integration of a Citi proprietary financial analysis tool that helps understand user's financial circumstances, investment goals to develop a wealth management strategy.
- Involved in account number digit conversion as a part of global conversion strategy that helped save costs across various geographical business entities.
- Improved application security by fixing vulnerabilities reported periodically through Application Vulnerability Assessment (AVA), Secure Source Code Review (SSCR).
Web developer
Xerago E-Biz Services Private Ltd, Chennai
04.2008 - 08.2010
- (Project @ Citibank Australia), Part of the Enterprise Content Management team (ECMS) that managed end-to-end of content publishing, workflows and templates creation for Citibank Australia.
- Ongoing maintenance and support of Citibank Australia & Citibank India pre-login and post-login portal.
- Involved in enhancing the Straight Through Processing (STP) of Credit cards, Campaign management creation through KANA CRM.
- Involved in enhancement of Credit cards Rewards program.
- Part of the front-end team of Findmyciti.com that used Google Maps API to locate Citibank ATMs.
Education
Executive General Management Programme -
Indian Institute of Management
Lucknow 01.2014 - 01.2015
Master in Computer Applications (MCA) -
IGNOU
Delhi 01.2000 - 12.2007
Skills
Engineering Roadmap & Delivery
undefinedCertification
Sun Certifed Java Programmer
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeWork Location
On-SiteRemoteHybridImportant To Me
Career advancementCompany CultureTimeline
Assistant Vice President - Product Development
Karka Kasadara Edulabs
05.2018 - Current
General Manager - Elearning & Technology
Velammal Educational Trust, Chennai
09.2014 - 04.2018
Consultant
CapGemini, Chennai
02.2014 - 09.2014
Executive General Management Programme -
Indian Institute of Management
01.2014 - 01.2015
Associate Domain Specialist, Triage Manager
CSS Corp, Chennai
04.2013 - 01.2014
Associate consultant
Citibank UK IPB, Polaris Financial Technology Ltd, Chennai
08.2010 - 03.2013
Web developer
Xerago E-Biz Services Private Ltd, Chennai
04.2008 - 08.2010
Master in Computer Applications (MCA) -
IGNOU
01.2000 - 12.2007
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