Summary
Vinod Balakrishnan is a Senior Software Architect with over 18 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering resilient infrastructure and cloud solutions, currently leading architecture for HCL BigFix Continuous Compliance. He blends deep expertise in storage, virtualization (VMware), DR/BCP and security compliance with practical automation skills using Jenkins, Ansible, PowerShell and PowerCLI to drive repeatable, cost-optimized deployments across Linux, Windows and AWS. At Philips and SunGard he led large-scale DR implementations, hardware lifecycle decisions and multi-million dollar cost reductions, while at Oracle and Thomson Reuters he specialized in high-performance storage and capacity planning. Vinod is comfortable operating across pre-sales, engineering and operations, mentoring teams and taking technical ownership of complex, high-risk projects. His GitHub bio — “A human, trying to establish existence” — hints at a pragmatic, curious engineer who balances deep technical rigor with a touch of humility.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Post-graduate, Information Technology, Post-graduate, Information Technology at GUJARAT UNIVERSITY, Ahmadabad
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Graduate (Bachelor of Commerce), Graduate (Bachelor of Commerce) at MAHARAJA SAYAJI UNIVERSITY, Baroda