Satish Balakrishnan
Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect at Microsoft
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSatish Balakrishnan is a seasoned Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect with over a decade of hands-on experience architecting public and hybrid cloud platforms across health-tech, FSI, telecommunications and startups. He has led cloud migrations, platform engineering and security-first architectures at Microsoft, PwC, HPE and Accenture, and helped scale a health‑tech startup from inception to acquisition. Author of "Terraforming the Cloud" and multiple industry articles, he blends practical DevOps automation (Terraform, Kubernetes, Chef) with compliance-savvy designs for regulated environments such as HIPAA. Comfortable straddling technical delivery and client-facing strategy, Satish mentors teams while driving measurable outcomes—often cutting deployment and provisioning cycles by an order of magnitude. Based in Melbourne, he brings a rare mix of bioinformatics roots and enterprise cloud leadership, with early research work informing a disciplined, data-driven approach to systems design.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Bioinformatics, Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Bioinformatics at Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth
Github Skills (26)
microsoft10
microsoft-azure10
azure10
architecture9
terraform9
terraform-provider9
azure-resource-manager9
prose8
resource-manager8
documentation8
notebook7
openxml7
machine-learning6
jupyter6
tensorflow5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
xsatishx/chef-repo
Jul 2016 - Feb 2020
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
xsatishx/scripts
Apr 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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