Veera Balakrishnan
AI & Product Strategy Leader | Data Refinery & Digital Transformation. Designing data refinery platforms that operationalize FHIR interoperability, power enterprise analytics, and accelerate trusted AI adoption
- Role
- Senior Director Data Engineering - Data Refinery at b.well Connected Health
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Veera Balakrishnan
Director-level AI & GenAI product strategy leader with 16+ years driving enterprise-wide AI transformation, LLM platform development, signal intelligence systems, recommend and reasoning engines, and data-driven decision frameworks for Fortune 100 organizations. Proven ability to define multi-year AI strategy, drive platform architecture in partnership with engineering, influence executive roadmaps, build adoption frameworks, and operationalize AI across Sales, Marketing, CX, and Federal business units. Known for structuring ambiguous problems into scalable AI workflows with measurable business impact. AI Platform and GenaAI Capabilities • AI platform vision, multi-year roadmap creation, and enterprise adoption strategy• LLM productization, evaluation frameworks, retrieval optimization, model-selection logic• Multi-model orchestration (open-source + proprietary models) and RAG architecture scaling• AI governance, compliance, interpretability frameworks, risk assessment, responsible AI• Reasoning engines combining structured + unstructured signal layers• KPI frameworks for AI-driven GTM, CX, and Sales motions• Executive communication, business-case development, and steering committee leadership• Cross-functional influence with Engineering, DS, Federal teams, CX, Field Sales, Product & StrategyI’m passionate about turning complex data into clarity—helping sales, product, and marketing teams align around the signals that matter and execute with confidence. My work has supported multi-billion-dollar business units, global GTM motions, and organizations navigating major shifts in AI, cloud, and digital transformation.
Experience
Senior Director Data Engineering - Data Refinery
Jan 2026 — Present · Austin, TX, US
Education
MIT Sloan School of Management
Executive Education, Digital Marketing Analytics
MIT Sloan School of Management
Executive Education, Pricing: Using Data to Improve Pricing Performance
MIT Sloan School of Management
Executive Education, Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy
Texas McCombs School of Business
Post Graduate Program in Cybersecurity
RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
2000 — 2004
MIT Sloan School of Management
Executive Education, Internet of Things (IoT): Business Implications and Opportunities
Texas McCombs School of Business
PG Program - Artificial Intelligence for Leaders
Skills
- Consumer Analytics
- Tableau
- Insight Dashboard Development - Sparksqlserver
- Business Intelligence
- Deep Learning
- Project Management
- Machine Learning
- Analytics
- Decision Support Analytic Function
- Javascript
- Sql
- Linux
- Python
- Ayasdi Platform
- Xml
- Apache Spark
- Sas
- Big Data
- Microsoft Sql Server
- Scala
- R
- Hadoop Framework
- Data Mining
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