Bala Shanmugam
Founder at p8.io
Redmond, Washington, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBala Shanmugam is a technology leader and founder with 25+ years of experience building large-scale payment and enterprise platforms across financial services and cloud-native environments. He currently leads p8.io and CubeWire, delivering resilient, compliant payment systems and enterprise-grade Web3 infrastructure for banks, fintechs, and governments. Bala has run multi-hundred-person engineering organisations and overseen $50M annual transformation investments to modernize payments platforms that move hundreds of billions daily. His background spans hands-on architecture to executive strategy, having led Atlassian’s Developer Platform and delivered mission-critical payment hubs at ANZ. He combines deep technical fluency in cloud, event-driven microservices, and secure digital assets with a track record of translating bleeding-edge tech (blockchain, AI) into production-ready services. Based in Redmond with roots in India, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with operator experience scaling teams and systems for regulatory and operational rigor.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Madras Institute of Technology Campus
Github Skills (13)
azure10
sdk10
microsoft-azure10
azure-communication-services10
microsoft10
powerbi9
powerplatform8
dotnet8
powerapps8
cds8
spfx7
machine-learning5
e-mail3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bashan-git/azure-docs
Apr 2021 - Aug 2022
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
azuremicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
bashan-git/dynamics-365-customer-engagement
May 2019 - May 2019
public repo for dynamics365 customer-engagement docs
Contributions:2 pushes in 12 days
public-repomachine-learningengagementdynamics365customer-engagement
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