Saiprasad Balasubramanian

Worked with multiple clients during my time here

Global Wireless Communications Provider - Enhancing Engineering Excellence

• Delivered a 20% improvement in developer efficiency through optimized testing practices and streamlined release pipelines.
• Engineered a Pytest-based testing framework, significantly scaling automated test coverage and ensuring system reliability.
• Championed the adoption of cutting-edge CI/CD tools and practices, driving seamless and stable production deployments.
• Elevated system performance by leveraging Docker to standardize and streamline development and deployment environments.
• Played a pivotal role in optimizing critical functionalities across Python, C, and C++ projects, ensuring superior product quality.

South East Asian Retail Giant - Transforming Retail Data with Scalable Solutions

• Architected a cross-cloud data platform aggregating data from 10+ sources, enabling near-real-time analytics and strategic decision-making.
• Built frameworks for DAG and Spark Job creation, improving developer productivity by 40% and reducing development time by 60%.
• Leveraged Delta Lake to optimize ETL processes, cutting job execution times from 8 hours to under 1 hour.
• Rebuilt pipelines and developed a scalable clickstream analytics platform that processed terabytes of data, reducing data issues by 80% and boosting stakeholder confidence.
• Mentored new team members, facilitating faster onboarding and contributing to a collaborative and high-performing team environment

Major Indian Private Bank - Building a Hyperpersonalization Engine for Targeted Offers

• Worked with the whole data lifecycle of the project right from data ingestion to the analytics engine to the feedback layer.
• Enhanced Airflow-based frameworks, accelerating DAG creation and operational efficiency across workflows
• Integrated high-impact customer engagement channels such as WhatsApp, RCS, and VoiceBlast, with WhatsApp adoption surpassing all expectations. WhatsApp became one of the most used and preferred channel for customers over time with an engagement of over 70%.
• Delivered regulatory-critical modules like a Do Not Disturb feature, ensuring compliance with RBI mandates and safeguarding customer preferences.
• Reduced SLA breaches by 30% through proactive automation and process enhancements, ensuring seamless production support.
• Cultivated a high-performing team by mentoring junior developers and fostering a culture of technical excellence.

Joined GreyAtom as a Software Developer to build a kickass Data Science Ecosystem

• Architected and developed an online coding judge platform to evaluate users code in more than 10 languages.
• Architected and developed the new website from scratch in Python, Django, and GRPC with a 3x increase in performance as compared to the previous website.
• Worked on optimizing the legacy website and resulted in 4x faster site with over 85% reduction in size.
• Architected and developed, a solution to enable learners to execute their Data Science code online using Project Jupyter
• Worked on our in-house Data Science Platform - GLabs
• Developed multiple PoC’s and took them successfully to Production
• Liaised from various stakeholders across departments and transitioned their requirements into features on the platform.

Was awarded the Ripple Effect Award for exceptional ownership, leadership, and dedication towards the goal.

Joined GreyAtom as an Intern to mainly work on Dockerizing a current application and making it scalable in a secure way.

• Worked on developing custom solutions based around the Jupyter Ecosystem on Docker
• Researched on the future server architecture of our Data Science platform - GLabs
• Worked on implementing a serverless architecture using AWS Fargate
• Worked with Python, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Fargate, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Jupyter Notebook
• Optimized the website and improved loading time by 4x and implemented measures to harden security.

Worked at a startup - YUPS as a Research Trainee working mainly in the domain of Robotics and Automation.

• Worked in the hardware side on ARM Cortex M3 based microcontrollers (MCU) and other ultra low power MCU's
• Created custom dashboards to show the KPI's based on the data pulled from the MCU's

Joined YUPS as an intern based on my previous work in the Robotics domain

• Worked on custom robotics based solutions for clientele
• Researched on various commercially viable communication devices
• Used Microcontrollers right from Arduino Series to Raspberry Pi's

Founded and led a small team of Developers working with SME clientele across multiple domains

• Communicated with clients, translated the requirements into stories and saw it through until implementation
• Worked with Web Technologies

Taught Physics for Class XI students majorly in the section of Applied Physics and Electronics

Mentored students on the right approach to tackle questions for various entrance exams. Continued mentoring students post leaving the organization.

Interned as a Network Engineer for Hewlett Packard at Bank of India, Zonal Head Office, Navi Mumbai

Troubleshooted and Maintained critical bank infrastructure and resolved conflicts in the networks as per the SLA

Routed traffic between main Data Center and backup Data Center as per the load and maintenance requirement