Summary
Vijayabalan Balakrishnan is a seasoned cloud and infrastructure strategist with over 24 years of hands-on experience designing, migrating and optimizing large-scale datacenter and cloud environments for enterprises and public institutions. Now serving as Senior Cloud Advisory at Carrefour in Brussels, he blends technical depth in Linux/Ansible automation, OpenStack and AWS/Azure architectures with strong pre-sales and stakeholder management skills to drive cloud adoption and governance. He has led complex, multi-phased migration programs and built reusable IaC and CI/CD patterns while acting as a trusted advisor to C-level stakeholders and engineering teams. Beyond pure engineering, he founded a tech community that pairs training with charitable initiatives, showing a commitment to skill-building and social impact.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary eucation - XII, Maths, A, Higher Secondary eucation - XII, Maths, A at Native Higher Secondary School
BSC.IT, Computer Science, B, BSC.IT, Computer Science, B at Sikkim Manipal University of Health, Medical and Technological Sciences
Diplomo in Computer Technology, Computer Hardware Technology/Technician, First Class With Honors - Distinction, Diplomo in Computer Technology, Computer Hardware Technology/Technician, First Class With Honors - Distinction at Venkateshwara polytechnic,pudukkottai
English