Kalyani Balasekar

• Led engineering for Financials domain products, enhancing platform stability and delivering new business capabilities while overseeing production support.
• Partner with business stakeholders to define priorities, manage roadmaps, align technology investments, and guide budgeting and resource planning.
• Champion AI-driven engineering through GitHub Copilot, automation, and modern software engineering practices.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives including enterprise customer onboarding, modernization programs, and credit provider migration.
• Drove operational excellence through implementation of engineering best practices, optimizing processes and establishing metrics for continuous improvement.
• Mentor engineering leaders and build a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Progressive Carrier Growth - Manager I > Manager II

• Led Application Security and Enterprise API Portal teams delivering secure, scalable platforms for internal and external applications.
• Directed Final Mile modernization initiatives, enhancing architecture, solution design, dependency management, release planning, and migration execution.
• Partnered with engineering, architecture, product, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to prioritize initiatives and deliver enterprise solutions.
• Led hiring, coaching, mentoring, performance management, and career development for engineers and technical leads.
• Automated operational processes and reporting with Power BI and Power Automate, enhancing visibility and minimizing manual effort.
• Established onboarding and knowledge management practices, fostering self-organizing, high-performing teams.
• Introduced modern authentication mechanisms for external users to strengthen security and improve user experience.
• Led employee engagement and community initiatives.

Progressive Carrier growth - Software Engineer > Programmer Analyst > Technology Lead > Project Manager > Senior Project Manager

• Managed globally distributed Agile teams of 40+ engineers and multiple vendors to deliver high-quality projects on time.
• Led enterprise application development, modernization, and support programs for one of the world's largest retailers.
• Managed budgeting, estimation, release planning, stakeholder communication, and resource planning.
• Improved engineering productivity through CI/CD, automation, Agile transformation, and application rationalization.
• Mentored engineers and technical leaders, enhancing knowledge management and fostering continuous improvement initiatives.
• Contributed hands-on to solution design and enterprise application development, supporting production and automation processes using Java, Mainframe, ETL, and SQL.