Passionate Software Architect, Technology evangelist with an extensive Software Development expertise. Define and Drive Technology/Product road maps, Enterprise Architecture and IT Strategy. Provide Technical leadership and Mentoring to some great people and thrive innovation. Areas of explorations, Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network function virtualization (NFV), Whitebox switches, OpenDayLight (ODL) and more... Expertise in managing software delivery teams across globally distributed teams. Some of my topic of interest, * Architectural patterns, Microservices, Containerization, DevOps optimization * Big Data, SOA, Enterprise Web Application development with Java/JEE. * Worked significantly on Highly Scalable Architecture & Design, Web Applications, Enterprise distributed caching solutions. * AKKA, Cassandra, MongoDB, Titan Graph DB, Apache Kafka, Golden Gate (TDM), B2B Integration, Performance Optimization & Instrumentation. Specialties: Full stack Development. Domain: Significant domain experience in Datacenter, Airline & Travel Industry. Conference Speaker @ I Love API 2015 - http://iloveapis.com/portfolio/senthil-balakrishnan/ http://www.senthilb.com http://www.nizhalpadam.com

Principal Software Architect @ From August 2015 to Present (3 months) Sunnyvale, CASenior Software Architect @ From August 2014 to August 2015 (1 year 1 month) Sunnyvale, CASoftware Architect, Consultant @ Apple @ From January 2013 to August 2014 (1 year 8 months) Sunnyvale, CATechnical Consultant @ Gap @ From April 2012 to January 2013 (10 months) San Francisco Bay AreaTechnical Consultant @ HP @ From December 2011 to April 2012 (5 months) Columbus, Ohio AreaTechnical Architect @ Technical Architect From January 2007 to December 2011 (5 years) Great Atlanta AreaLead Designer @ From October 2006 to January 2007 (4 months) Chennai Area, IndiaSr. Software Engineer @ Responsible for Design & development of Software Applications. From March 2004 to October 2006 (2 years 8 months) Chennai Area, IndiaProgrammer @ From October 2002 to February 2004 (1 year 5 months) Chennai Area, IndiaProgrammer @ From July 2001 to September 2002 (1 year 3 months)

B.E, Mechanical @ Hindustan College Of Engineering From April 1997 to 2001 Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Mechanical Engineering @ Anna University From 1997 to 2001 Senthil Balakrishnan is skilled in: Java Enterprise Edition, E-commerce, SDLC, Software Development, Enterprise Architecture, SOA, Java, Agile Methodologies, Tomcat, MongoDB, Ant, Hibernate, Spring, Web Services, Software Project..., Scrum, Design Patterns, Oracle, XML, Weblogic, Enterprise Software, JBoss Application Server, JDBC, JMS, Testing, Solution Architecture, Web Applications, Architecture, Databases, SaaS, Agile Project Management, Requirements Analysis, Software Design, PL/SQL, Struts, Unix, EJB, REST, Strategy, Architectures, Spring Framework