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Saravanan Balakrishna

Saravanan Balakrishna

Team lead/Academic Head

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Software Engineering leader at RSA Security

  • Education

    • Brilliants Computers

      1992 - 1993
      Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications

    • Bangalore University

      1989 - 1991
      BSc

    • Karnataka State Open University

      2005 - 2007
      MSc

  • Experience

    • Shared logic Information technology

      May 1996 - Apr 2000
      Team lead/Academic Head

    • Logipro Software Pvt Ltd

      May 2000 - Apr 2004
      Technical Manager

    • Vodafone

      Jan 2004 - Jan 2005
      Test Lead

    • RelQ Software Pvt Ltd

      May 2004 - Jul 2005
      Senior V & V Engineer

    • Yahoo!

      Aug 2005 - Mar 2014
      Senior Manager Quality Engineering

      Managed Overall Quality Engineering ownership for multiple Products over the past 7 years within the Yahoo Search marketing and Advertising publisher group Released multiple versions and coordinated releases with geographically distributed QE teams for the following products -Yahoo Publisher Network, Advertiser Applications (UI layer, External Web-Services API, Business Platforms layer), Domain Match, RMX, DoTS data pipeline (Message oriented middle ware) and Beacon Platform.Responsible for providing vision, strategic direction, resource allocation, mentoring decision making and performance management for the QE team at BLR and Pune.Was involved hands-on for the end to end testing tasks for the Panama and RMX apps releases requiring interacting with several teams across geographic locations.Functional and System Integration Quality owner for Panama, Yahoo’s Search advertising Platform.Built the Panama BLR QE team (increased from 7 to 24 members) by hiring over 18 engineers (UI and API automation, white box engineers, and CRM team members) in a span of 6 months. Worked with several vendor companies (Infosys, PSL, Mindtree, HCL) for getting OSP/OPD contractors for QE projects.Successfully implemented Continuous Integration pipelines by working closely with Engineering, QE and SCM teams for 4 revenue impacting products and Increased automation levels to over 95% in all products. Show less

    • EMC

      Apr 2014 - May 2019
      Senior Manager - S/W Quality Engineering

      RSA, The Security Division of EMC

    • RSA Security

      May 2019 - now

      • Director - Software Engineering

        Oct 2021 - now

      • Senior Manager - Software Engineering

        May 2019 - Sept 2021

  • Licenses & Certifications