GouthamĀ Balaraman
Chief Technology Officer at LA CTO Forum
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolGoutham Balaraman is a business-first technology executive and CTO based in Los Angeles with over a decade of experience building data-driven platforms for financial services. He combines quantitative rigor from a PhD in theoretical physics with hands-on engineeringācontributing SQLAlchemy integrations to Spotify's widely used Luigi and building back-end features for Flask-Blogging. Goutham has led engineering and data science teams to deploy machine learning for credit risk, prepayment modeling, and marketing optimization that materially reduced costs and improved reliability across multi-billion-dollar portfolios. As CIO/EVP at Cartiga and VP roles at loanDepot, he translated analytics into product roadmaps, operational automation, and cloud-scale compute savings. He is comfortable steering vendor relationships and technology budgets while remaining engaged in code and open-source workflows. His background in computational research and quant engineering gives him a rare fluency across research, production systems, and business strategy.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics, Master's degree, Physics at Pondicherry UniversityPhD, Theoretical Physics, PhD, Theoretical Physics at Georgia Institute of Technology
Hindi, Tamil
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Github Skills (32)
c-language10
sqlite10
object-mapping10
python10
testing10
luigi10
flask-ask10
data-mapping10
orm10
sqlalchemy10
database-design10
quantitative-finance10
database-management10
cprogramming-language10
swig10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gouthambs/Flask-Blogging
May 2015 - Feb 2022
A Markdown Based Python Blog Engine as a Flask Extension.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 335 commits, 49 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Goutham primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Flask-Blogging project. The commits focused on implementing database storage using SQLAlchemy and SQLite, specifically creating models, database tables, and functions to save, retrieve, and delete blog posts, including handling tags and user associations. Further, they implemented several tests to ensure the integrity of the database interactions, including unique constraints and data consistency. Additionally, they were responsible for adding the sitemap feature.
pythonflaskblog-enginewebframeworkpython3
lballabio/QuantLib-SWIG
Oct 2015 - Aug 2017
QuantLib wrappers to other languages
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 7 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Goutham primarily contributed to enhancing the QuantLib-SWIG project by adding methods, data types, and functionalities to the SWIG wrappers. These contributions include the addition of new methods for existing classes, and exposing new classes to the wrapper, such as `FixedRateBondForward`, `LocalVolSurface`, and methods related to Heston models. The user also made adjustments to the setup scripts and SWIG interfaces to support the new features.
pythonquantliblanguagesquantitative-financewrappers
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