United States

Product Design

Customer Experience (CX)

Technical Product Management

Program Management

Project Management

Data engineering

AI/ML Engineering

Architectural Engineering

Data Analysis

Hardware Design

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Balasubramani Murugesan

Director of Engineering

Product analytics

Product strategy

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Leadership

Project management

Analytical skills

AI/ML

Business intelligence

Cloud computing

Data visualisation

Information architecture

Machine learning

Product roadmap

Pandas

Postman

Python

PyTorch

React

React Native

GitHub

Jira

Confluence

Jenkins

PowerBI

REST API

MongoDB

Angular

Databricks

UserTesting

Selenium

GitLab

HTML

Docker

Node.js

Stakeholder management

Time management

Customer service

Conflict resolution

Critical-thinking

Database management

Design systems

Integration Testing

Unit Testing

Prototyping

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

An active member of the Forbes Technology Council (ForbesTechCouncil.com).
Forbes Executive Profile: https://councils.forbes.com/profile/Balasubramani-Murugesan-Director-Engineering-Digit7/347d4707-3f49-41c5-acc5-cb46a1569232

Focused on helping customers achieve business growth and improve operational efficiency through focused problem solving & technology innovation. 
Advised on Go To Market strategies and product roadmaps for customers. 
Engaged as a thought leader in Digital Transformation and provided guidance on modern technologies including AI, DATA, Cloud, IOT based solutions.
Working closely with leadership and CXO level teams to provide solution strategy and roadmap for key initiatives. 
Help business leaders design go to market strategies and MVP offerings. 
Promoting value driven delivery within the organization and coaching/mentoring IT managers to become transformational leaders.
Managing customer engagements to ensure timely and quality delivery, responsible for technical and professional services for various type of service delivery models, working with customers for developing and implementing IT solutions aligned with the organizational strategic roadmap.

Leading the Retail Digital Transformation Practice.
Poduct Name: DigitKart
https://www.digit7.ai/digitkart/
No Barcodes Required. DigitKart is barcode free checkout solution that lets your customers grab 10+ items, place them in the tray, tap their credit card and go. Freeing up your associates to focus on revenue generating activities and not manual inventory management.

- Led a team of AI engineers in the successful implementation and optimization of state-of-the-art object detection, segmentation and classification models.

- Orchestrated large-scale model training operations, implementing a distributed computing solution to optimize resource utilization and reduce training times.

- Formulated and executed comprehensive strategies for data collection, annotation, and augmentation, ensuring high-quality datasets for training robust deep learning models.

- Oversaw the production deployment of real-time object detection solution, emphasizing efficiency through metrics-driven performance evaluation.

- Engage with 3rd party manufacturing partners and suppliers to achieve the highest levels of product performance and quality. Align all parties with clear requirements and timelines.

- Proficiency in guiding the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle, from conceptualization and data preparation to model training, deployment, and ongoing optimization, ensuring a comprehensive and effective AI strategy.

At TCS worked for Apple.
• Managing a Team of 12.
• Creating the frame work for the application Which is scalable and deployable in cloud
• Heading the Cloud and Security team initiative for this Project

Technologies 
AngularJS, BootStrap, Angular Material, Karma, Gradle, Spring Boot, Mongo DB, NodeJS, Cloud Foundry, Eureka (Service Discovery), Hysterix (Circuit Breaker), Spring Config, Rabbit MQ.

At iLink I was primarily focused on client Flowserve (IOT) & Livewire (DATA). My focus was complete Technology Transformation and Delivery including business.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flowserve.flowsync&pli=1
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flowserve-flowsync/id1622634697

Balasubramani Murugesan🇺🇸