About

Balaji Chandrasekaran is a highly skilled software engineer with over 14 years of experience in software design, development, DevOps, cloud architecture, system and enterprise architecture. He has played various roles, including Senior Engineering Manager, Solution Architect, and Technical Architect. Balaji has successfully led large teams and delivered complex solutions to clients. He is responsible for overall system design, including front-end and back-end architecture, and promotes best architectural and coding practices within the team and organization. Balaji has extensive experience in designing scalable systems that can handle huge volumes of data in millions, choosing appropriate distributed data stores, database sharding strategies, and asynchronous communication. He is highly skilled in Core Java, J2EE, Design patterns, Unit and Integration testing, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Restful Services, DB2, Oracle, Sybase, SQL/PLSQL, and MongoDB. Balaji specializes in designing and developing Microservices, using microservices patterns, Service Mesh, API Gateway, Service Discovery and registration, and Eureka. He also has specialized knowledge in DevOps, CI/CD pipeline using GitLab, Jenkins, config management tools, artifactory repository, Terraform (IaC), Containerization (Docker, ECS), SecOps, Blue Green Deployment, and successfully migrated services and applications from legacy infrastructure/on-prem to AWS using various AWS services. Balaji is also specialized in SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), improving Observability, latency, availability of sites/services, monitoring of applications using Nagios, AppDynamics, and Enterprise and System architecture, Systems Integration, Infrastructure uplifts, database migration, Auth and SSO implementation using OAuth 2.0, JWT, SAML, MFA. He also has experience in Web architecture, Web security, Web server hardening, Apache httpd configuration, Citrix NetScaler, Load balancers, Firewall, Certificates, SSL, TLS, Akamai, and DNS management. Balaji is currently working as a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle, building OCI cloud, and is part of the OCI Identity team. He has previously worked at Publicis Sapient as Senior Manager Technology and Manager Technology/Specialist. Balaji holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from p.s.n.a. college. He is highly organized, detail-oriented, and thrives in challenging environments. Balaji possesses excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and is a multi-tasker. He