Hriday Balachandran
CISO And Vice President Of Technology at SCALE
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHriday Balachandran is a seasoned technology and security leader with two decades of hands-on experience building scalable infrastructure and delivering high-visibility projects across fintech, aviation, education, and cloud/data-center environments. As CISO and VP of Technology at a digital bank, he architected always-active Azure and hybrid data center systems, launched multiple revenue-generating banking products, and runs PCI-compliant operations while owning vendor and DevOps practices. Previously he led IT airline operations for major carriers, delivering cost-saving analytics, continuous delivery pipelines, and mission-critical cloud migrations. Known for assembling high-performance teams through servant leadership, he also has deep systems and storage expertise from building multi-petabyte archives and university data centers. Based in Calgary, he pairs technical depth—from protocol stacks to cloud architecture—with an operator’s focus on SLAs, observability, and measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Engineering, MS, Computer Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaBhavan's Vidya MandirMasters in Business Administration, Aviation, Masters in Business Administration, Aviation at Daniel Webster CollegeNew Indian SchoolB'Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, B'Tech, Computer Science and Engineering at Cochin University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (17)
digital-signage10
php9
java8
wifi7
juniper5
configurations5
ord4
dhall4
scale4
openwrt4
ansible3
declarative3
planning3
tooling3
nixos2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hriday/resume
Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
hriday/hriday.github.io
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
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