Rishi Balasubramaniyan

About Rishi Balasubramaniyan

Senior Technical Program Manager driving exabyte-scale cloud migrations, global platform rollouts, and high-impact cross-functional programs. I turn complex technical challenges into clear, measurable outcomes that scale. I bring data-driven decision-making and collaborative leadership to every program, aligning engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders while balancing trade-offs in scale, cost, and reliability. Equally comfortable debating architecture with development teams or presenting strategy to senior leaders, I excel at turning vision into tangible results, driving measurable business impact, and leading programs that transform platforms, processes, and teams.Key achievements:$ Exabyte-scale migration to Azure Data Lake Gen2: Exabytes migrated to date, multiple organizations onboarded, and critical engineering blockers resolved to accelerate throughput.$ Global rollout of Azure Data Box Gen7: Deployed Gen7 racks across multiple Azure data centers worldwide.$ FedEx logistics integration: Integrated FedEx as a preferred shipping vendor, enabling faster device returns, improving predictability and customer experience.$ Offline migrations for AI & public-sector workloads: Petabytes of customer data migrated with zero disruption, ensuring compliance and data integrity.For nearly two decades, I’ve served organizations across AMER, EMEA, and APAC in Banking, Insurance, Life Sciences, and Healthcare, always putting the customer at the center. I’ve managed large programs, complex IT operations, and multi-disciplinary teams, successfully interacting with executives and cross-functional stakeholders.Leadership & Impact:$ Managed ~$18M portfolio and scaled global teams from 75 to 320 members.$ Spearheaded multi-disciplinary teams across the UK, USA, China, and India.$ Collaborated closely with product, go-to-market, demand forecasting, finance, architecture, engineering, and operations teams to drive long-term success and ROI.Specialties / Areas of Expertise:Technical Program Delivery & Management | Client Relationship | Lead & Integrate Cross Functional Global Teams | Planning, Forecast & Estimation | Financial budget/Accounting (CapEx/OpEx)| Quality & Continuous Improvement | Software Development Lifecycle | Agile Methodologies | Change, Risk & Issue Management | Resource Management | Vendor Management | Team Building | Training & Coaching | Conflict Resolution | Analytical | Problem Solving | Excellent written, verbal & presentation skills

Experience

1. Senior Technical Program Manager

   Microsoft

   May 2024 — Present

Education

• Institute of Road and Transport Technology

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Post Graduate Program, Cloud Computing

• Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies

  Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, Human Resources

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  Master of Science (MS), Computer Science (EBusiness)

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• IT Strategy
• Project Delivery
• Vendor Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Leadership
• Project Management
• Business Intelligence
• Governance
• Software Project Management
• Project Planning
• Requirements Gathering
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Change Management
• Business Analysis
• Prince Practitioner
• Program Management
• Sdlc
• Resource Management