Balaranjith Thangakunam

About Balaranjith Thangakunam

Experienced IT professional with over 22 years of expertise in building and scaling…

Experience

1. Engineering and Product Leader - Selling Partner Payments and Collections

   Amazon

   Jul 2014 — Present

   Leading a multi-disciplinary team of over 125 software engineers and product/program managers at Amazon. • Successfully proposed, evangelized, and secured approval for a unified payments product vision and led teams to deliver on this vision, evolving the architecture with 50+ micro services to support 35+ business lines processing 25+ Billion transactions worth $750+ Billion per year. • Successfully led the world\'s largest financial system migration from a monolithic Oracle DB-based architecture to a microservices architecture based on the AWS tech stack, with zero downtime and no customer impact. • Successfully launched 30+ payments and monetization features, leveraging ML innovations to boost partner satisfaction by 45% and generate $100MM+ in bottom-line impact. • Implemented initiatives, including machine learning-based early warning and anomaly detection solutions, to increase key business metrics such as payments success rate from 95.4% to 99.85% and collections success rate (recovery of bad debt) from 61% to 96.4%. • Expanded the team from 7 in one development center to over 125 across multiple locations, including Seattle, San Diego, and Bangalore.

Education

• XLRI Jamshedpur

  Post Graduate Certificate in Business Management, Business Management

  2006 — 2007

• Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

  APPM, Software Project Management

  2008 — 2008

• Karnataka State Open University

  M.B.A, Information Technology

  2009 — 2010

• University of Kerala

  Bachelors Degree in Technology, Computer Science & Engineering

• Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad

  FNFE, Finance for Non Finance Executives

  2009 — 2009

Skills

• Oracle Applications
• Business Process Improvement
• Open Source Software
• Requirements Analysis
• Sdlc
• Application Lifecycle Management
• Enterprise Resource Planning (Erp)
• Erp Implementations
• Soa
• Software Development
• Business Intelligence
• Software Project Management
• Oracle Financials
• Data Warehousing
• Process Improvement
• Erp
• Enterprise Software
• IT Management
• Oracle
• Software Licensing Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Consulting
• Program Management
• Qlikview
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• IT Operations
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Application Management