Balaji Thiagarajan

Envision and build software systems, business and ecosystems at scale for Mobile Experiences, Internet of things and Consumer class Cloud Platforms and Services with install bases of over half a billion users Experience with driving innovation and building start ups for new business opportunities and next generation product lines with in large corporates and as an advisor on boards for new venture backed companies in the valley. Led multiple technology evaluations, mergers, acquisitions, integrations and divestitures. General Management of large organizations, with a global foot print and operating budgets of $125+M. Hands on expertise with building organizations of technology and industry leaders. Deployed practical operational processes for agile development and noise free operations. Software and Services R&D for Cloud Platforms, Big data, Analytics, Mobile, Sensor and IOT ecosystem driven experiences, Business platforms for Digital Advertising, Hosted email, Content management, Data center operations and Enterprise E-Commerce Helped evolve Hadoop in its early days from the research labs at Yahoo to mission critical consumer class systems for digital advertising. This included data management and workflow frameworks, extensions to the map-reduce processing framework to handle complex processing constructs, anonymization tool kits for data privacy and service reliability. Involved with driving contributions to the open source ecosystem of Big Data, Analytics and client services for mobile computing on Android platforms Helped drive the adoption of Google Cloud Platform for the mobile cloud ecosystem at Motorola. This included the tech stack from Big Query, Data Store, Stream based processing, Messaging systems and Content Delivery on the edge. Speaking engagements: Big Data, Analytics, Mobile Computing and Internet of Things